Putting Safety Solutions to the Test

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) launched the Rural Safety Innovation Program in 2008 as a part of the United States Department of Transportation’s Rural Safety Initiative. The Rural Safety Innovation Program awarded funds to agencies to improve safety on rural highways. This article assesses nine highway safety improvement projects implemented as part of the program. Innovative technology, as well as well as signage and speed control devices, helped many departments of transportation. For further improvements, states can improve the quality of data linking crashes to roadway inventory, traffic volume, and safety treatments.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/15marapr/03.cfm
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Torbic, Darren
  • Campbell, John
  • Amjadi, Roya
• Publication Date: 2015-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Photos; Tables;
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation and assessment; Financing; Highway safety; Improvements; Rural highways; Traffic crashes
• Identifier Terms: Rural Safety Innovation Program; U.S. Department of Transportation; U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01567884
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 26 2015 1:45PM