Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Safety Toolkit

Rural roadway safety is an important issue for communities throughout the country and presents a challenge for state, local, and Tribal agencies. The Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Safety Toolkit was created to help rural local and Tribal roadway safety practitioners address these challenges. The Safety Toolkit provides a step-by-step process to assist local agency and Tribal practitioners in completing traffic safety analyses, identify safety issues, countermeasures to address them, and an implementation process. Each step in the Toolkit contains a set of tools, examples, and links to resources appropriate to the needs of safety practitioners. The report presents a seven-step safety analysis process based on a similar process developed in the Highway Safety Manual. The seven steps are: compile data; conduct network screening; select sites for investigation; diagnose site conditions and identify countermeasures; prioritize countermeasures for implementation; implement countermeasures; and evaluate effectiveness of implemented countermeasures. Accompanying the Safety Toolkit are two User Guides (FHWA-SA-14-073 and FHWA-SA-14-074) which present step-by-step processes of example scenarios.

• Record URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_rural/training/fhwasa14072/isrltrst.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_rural/training/fhwasa14072/
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28361
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  555 12th Street, Suite 1600
  Oakland, CA  United States  94607-3616

  Michigan Technological University, Houghton

  Center for Technology & Training
  309 Dillman Hall, 1400 Townsend Drive
  Houghton, MI  United States  49931-1295

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Safety
  400 Seventh Street SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Wemple, Elizabeth
  • Colling, Timothy
• Publication Date: 2014-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Covered Technical Manual
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 88p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash data; Highway safety; Implementation; Rural highways
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01551449
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-SA-14-072
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-12-C-00034
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:23AM