Comprehensive Safety Document/Product

With 100 counties and more than 800 cities, towns, and township governments in North Carolina, there is a tremendous need to disseminate road safety information at the local level. For safety gains to be made in NC communities there needs to be both a “top-down” and “bottom-up” approach. In other words, agencies such as the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) routinely plan and provide for roadway improvements, but local government and safety leaders need to be informed about their safety problems and the full array of potential solutions so as to be participants in road safety decisions that impact their community. The lack of access and knowledge of the information needed to proactively address road safety issues is a key issue for improving road safety at the local level. One objective of this effort was to produce templates of comprehensive safety document (CSD) for NCDOT to enable the department to tailor solutions for a community’s specific highway safety issues. Templates were developed for Randolph county and Kinston. This project also developed a website to provide communities with guidance and a list of tools and resources for applicable education, enforcement, and engineering countermeasures that could be applied to address the community’s issues. Finally, the project also developed a marketing plan for the CSD that can be used by NCDOT.

• Record URL:
  https://connect.ncdot.gov/projects/research/RNAProjDocs/2011-10finalreport.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26014
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599

  North Carolina Department of Transportation

  Research and Development
  1549 Mail Service Center
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27699-1549

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Srinivasan, Raghavan
  • Hunter, William
  • Jones, Katy
  • Dickson, Caroline
  • Thomas, Libby
  • Martell, Carol
  • Harrison, Patty
  • Weisenfeld, Jonathon
  • Russell, Graham
  • Lytle, Richard
• Publication Date: 2013-6-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices;
• Pagination: 70p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Documents; Highway safety; Information dissemination; Local government; Marketing; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01485304
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/NC/2011-10, NCDOT Project 2011-10
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 28 2013 4:20PM