Reducing Rural Roadway Departures: Moving FoRRRwD, Part II

Each year in the United States, nearly 12,000 people die when their car leaves its travel lane on a rural road. That is 30 people today, and every day.The Federal Highway Administration is working with State departments of transportation, Local Technical Assistance Program centers, and local agencies across the country to combat this issue. Under the Every Day Counts initiative called Focus on Reducing Rural Roadway Departures (FoRRRwD), the team is promoting further use of proven strategies to reduce rural roadway departures. Many agencies are using these strategies and seeing positive results. The efforts of these agencies are getting more people home safely. The FoRRRwD approach is based on four pillars. The first article in this series (see "Moving FoRRRwD: Focus on Reducing Rural Roadway Departures" in the Autumn 2020 issue of Public Roads) focused on the scope of the problem and the first two pillars–all public roads and the implementation of a systemic safety approach. This article focuses on the other two pillars–the countermeasures recognized to reduce rural roadway departures and the development and implementation of safety action plans.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/21winter/01.cfm
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/54785
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Satterfield, Cathy
  • Albin, Richard B
• Publication Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 84
  • Issue Number: 4
  • 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: Countermeasures; Fatalities; Highway safety; Lane occupancy; Ran off road crashes; Rural highways; Safety programs
• Identifier Terms: Highway Safety Action Plan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01762722
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 27 2021 9:55AM