Plan4Safety - New Jersey's Crash Analysis and Decision Support Tool with Case Studies

Plan4Safety is a powerful tool that provides a myriad of benefits for safety professionals in New Jersey. This web-based application is a multi-layered decision support program for transportation engineers, planners, enforcement, and decision makers in New Jersey’s transportation and safety agencies to analyze crash data in tabular and geospatial forms. Besides identifying crash hot spots which merit further investigation, and prioritizing them for potential safety improvements, Plan4Safety integrates statewide crash data and roadway characteristic data, calculates statistical analyses, incorporates network screening layers and models, offers a diagnosis and countermeasures tool based on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) best practices, prioritizes countermeasures using economic analysis methods, proposes safety countermeasure post-evaluation and includes a visual analytical tool (GIS). In this paper, different functionalities provided by Plan4Safety and technical methods supporting then are presented followed by a number of real cases illustrating Plan4Safety applications.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Jafari, Mohsen A
  • Maher, Ali
  • 0000-0001-9083-9317
  • Mirhosseini, Niloufar S
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash analysis; Crash data; Decision support systems; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safety improvement
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01449715
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 22 2012 9:14AM