Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Site Safety Analysis – User Guide #1

This User Guide presents an example of how rural local and Tribal practitioners can study conditions at a preselected site. It demonstrates the step-by-step safety analysis process presented in Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Safety Toolkit (Publication FHWA-SA-14-072). The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) created the Toolkit and two User Guides to assist local agency and Tribal practitioners in completing traffic safety analyses. Each Toolkit step contains a set of tools, examples, and links to resources appropriate to the needs of safety practitioners. The User Guides accompanying the Toolkit provide hypothetical yet typical local or Tribal agency safety analysis scenarios and step-by-step solutions to the scenarios using materials from the Toolkit. This report specifically addresses how to study crash conditions at a curve on a rural roadway. The User Guide provides example applications of five Toolkit steps: compile data; diagnose site conditions and identify countermeasures; prioritize countermeasures for implementation; implement countermeasures; and evaluate effectiveness of implemented countermeasures.

• Record URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_rural/training/fhwasa14073/isrltru1.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_rural/training/fhwasa14073/
• 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; Tables;
• Pagination: 40p

Subject/Index Terms

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

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01551247
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-SA-14-073
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-12-C-00034
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:22AM