Manual for Selecting Safety Improvements on High Risk Rural Roads

This manual provides information on the costs and benefits of safety treatments on high-risk rural roads (HRRR). Agencies can use this manual to determine the following information on the treatments: Safety benefits; Cost-effectiveness comparison of safety treatments; Applicability of treatment deployment with respect to identified need; and Initial and reoccurring maintenance costs associated with countermeasure installation. In addition, this manual provides information on the decision-making process necessary to identify treatments.

• Record URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/hrrr/manual/hrrr_2014.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  SAIC

  11251 Roger Bacon Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20190

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

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

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Safety, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Atkinson, Jennifer E
  • Chandler, Brian E
  • Betkey, Vernon
  • Weiss, Karen
  • Dixon, Karen
  • Giragosian, Anna
  • Donoughe, Kelly
  • O'Donnell, Cara
• Publication Date: 2014-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Glossary; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 176p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Countermeasures; Decision making; High risk locations; Highway safety; Rural highways; Safety management
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01536056
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-SA-14-075
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-10-D-00024, Task Order No. T-12-006
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 28 2014 9:10AM