Incorporating Safety Performance into Project Design

This project provides the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) with recommendations and a framework for integrating the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) methods and tools to quantify safety performance into project planning and scoping and design processes. The research describes and associates types of safety analyses likely to be undertaken at ADOT during the project development process. The research also outlines which of these practices are current and which could be implemented in the long term and preliminary steps to achieve long term implementation. Research for this project was based on interviews with staff from ADOT’s safety, planning, design and pre-design, traffic engineering, and risk management and tort liability business units, case studies demonstrating application of HSM procedures to two recent ADOT pavement preservation projects, interviews with two state DOTs considered leaders in integrating the safety analysis into their project development process and the research team’s practical experience. The project concluded that ADOT can be successful implementing descriptive and quantitative safety analysis by committing to revise applicable policies and guidance documents, establishing an ADOT champion to lead this effort, and by dedicating funds to a comprehensive training program to ensure Department staff has the appropriate skills to meet the safety analysis requirements.

• Record URL:
  https://apps.azdot.gov/ADOTLibrary/publications/project_reports/PDF/SPR651.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36873
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

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

  Kittelson & Associates, Incorporated

  Tucson, AZ  United States 

  Arizona Department of Transportation

  Phoenix, AZ  United States 

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Wemple, Elizabeth
  • Hull, Robert
  • Schoen, Jim
  • Gowan, Brelend
• Publication Date: 2017-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 80p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Case studies; Highway design; Highway safety; Implementation; Project management; Recommendations; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Arizona Department of Transportation; Highway Safety Manual
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01633269
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-AZ-17-651
• Contract Numbers: SPR 000-1(173) 651
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 28 2017 10:42AM