Identification of Safety Practices, Issues, and Needs of Local Transportation and Law Enforcement Agencies

As part of the effort to implement the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are increasingly looking to reach out to local and law enforcement agencies. This paper summarizes the results from a study by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to identify the existing safety practices, issues, and needs of local transportation agencies and law enforcement offices in Florida. As part of the study, two comprehensive online surveys were developed targeting local transportation agencies and law enforcement agencies. The survey questions targeting local transportation agencies included 39 questions that focused on several areas of interest, such as: standardization of crash analysis methods and tools, high crash locations, training needs, and working with FDOT. Of special emphasis among the areas is standardization of crash analysis, which targets agencies’ feedback on adoption of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM), deployment of SafetyAnalyst, and use of a standard geographic information systems (GIS) spatial tool. For law enforcement agencies, the survey included 25 questions covering topics on selection of enforcement locations, traffic violations and safety campaigns, use of crash reports, and working with transportation agencies. This paper only includes results from select questions from both surveys that are likely to be of general interest to the readers. The surveys developed in this study could be adapted by other state DOTs interested in conducting similar studies to identify their local agency practices and needs to assist in their SHSP implementation.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10 Transportation Safety Management.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Haleem, Kirolos
  • Gan, Albert
  • Alluri, Priyanka
  • Saha, Dibakar
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash reports; Geographic information systems; Law enforcement; Needs assessment; Standardization; Surveys; Traffic violations; Transportation departments
• Identifier Terms: Florida Department of Transportation; Highway Safety Manual; Strategic Highway Safety Plan
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518775
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3440
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 21 2014 11:26AM