A Primer on Work Zone Safety and Mobility Performance Measurement

This primer has been developed to assist agencies in establishing and monitoring a useful set of work zone safety and mobility performance measures. Work zone performance measures are metrics that help to quantify how work zones impact travelers, residents, businesses and workers. Work zone performance measures help agencies improve their understanding of how their decisions during planning, design, and construction affect work zone safety and mobility, and thus can help improve how they make decisions for future work zones. The primer describes possible work zone performance measures, and provides guidance to help agencies select and implement measures that make sense for their own work zone programs. The primer outlines the methods and technologies that are available to gather data to monitor the various possible measures and procedures for calculating specific performance measures from different types of work zone traffic monitoring data. The primer also discusses the use of measures across multiple projects to assess an agency’s overall efforts and outcomes against its policies and goals.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/resources/publications/fhwahop11033/fhwahop11033.pdf
• Record URL:
  http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/resources/publications/fhwahop11033/index.htm
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• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Ullman, Gerald L
  • Lomax, Timothy J
  • Scriba, Tracy
• Publication Date: 2011-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 68p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway operations; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Mobility; Performance measurement; Traffic data; Traffic surveillance; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01357896
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HOP-11-033
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-06-D-00007
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 1 2011 7:58AM