Model Evaluation Plan for Work Zone Speed Safety Cameras

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Kapitanov, Martha ; Bobitz, Phillip ; King, Jeffrey A.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Automated Enforcement Cameras Speed Measurement Transportation Safety Work Zone Safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HOP-24-077
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Highway construction and maintenance efforts can create a high-risk environment for highway workers. Operating agencies provide a safe workspace for the highway workers and ensure that drivers can navigate the work zone in a safe and efficient manner. There are many proven and documented countermeasures that could improve safety for all users through a work zone. These countermeasures incorporate speed management, including speed enforcement. However, speed enforcement is labor intensive and can be difficult or even hazardous to law enforcement officials given the physical constraints of a work zone. Speed safety cameras (SSCs) are recognized as one of the 28 proven safety countermeasures by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and are named as a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 5-star countermeasure. SSCs are highly effective in reducing fatalities and serious injuries on the Nation’s highways.1 Specifically, implementation of SSCs in work zones can reduce severe crashes while also minimizing risks for workers, reducing speeding, and smoothing traffic flow. SSCs detect speeding vehicles and capture photographic and video evidence of the vehicles that violate a set speed threshold using speed measurement devices. Using speed measurement devices such as SSCs may raise concerns about privacy, lack of presence of law enforcement, and perceived revenue generation. Therefore, agencies should document all aspects of SSC implementation and evaluate its effectiveness in achieving the safety goals of the effort. The FHWA and NHTSA Speed Safety Camera Program Planning and Operations Guide,2 published in 2023, identifies program evaluation and monitoring as one of the 6 key steps for deploying SSCs to determine if safety goals are being met and to identify possible changes to improve effectiveness and public perception. This documentation includes a comprehensive evaluation plan, which captures the resulting outcomes. An evaluation of SSCs includes both quantitative and qualitative measures and would provide an agency with invaluable material to share within the agency, with the traveling public, or with others. In some States, SSC evaluation metrics may be required, either within the operating agency or by State legislation that authorizes the use of SSCs. This document provides foundational materials that agencies may use as a starting point when developing a plan and conducting an evaluation of work zone SSCs. Specifically, this document presents considerations for data collection and analysis with the understanding that the goals, available data, and nature of work zone SSCs are likely to vary for every agency.
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  Federal Highway Administration
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