Configuration of SafetyAnalyst Software for Efficient and Effective Safety Management
In the summer of 2009, American Associated of State Highway and Transportation Officials released the first version of SafetyAnalyst software, and in 2010 published the Highway Safety Manual. The Highway Safety Manual provides road safety knowledge and tools in a practical form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. SafetyAnalyst software incorporates methodologies set forth in the Highway Safety Manual for road safety management in computerized analytical tools. These tools support the identification of safety improvement needs and the decision making process for developing a system-wide program of safety improvement projects. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario has initiated a project to configure SafetyAnalyst to meet their needs in managing the road safety analysis of their highway network. In this initiative, all six SafetyAnalyst modules including the Network Screening Tool, Diagnosis Tool, Countermeasure Selection Tool, Economic Appraisal Tool, Priority Ranking Tool, and Countermeasure Evaluation Tool are configured for the Province of Ontario road network. The main goal of this paper is to summarize the lessons learned in this initiative to assist other road authorities in their prospective undertakings related to SafetyAnalyst. This paper highlights challenges associated with compiling infrastructure data, traffic volume data, collision data, importing data into SafetyAnalyst while keeping the road authority's databases unchanged, Safety Performance Functions in SafetyAnalyst, and customized values for various modules in SafetyAnalyst. This paper provides solutions to address these challenges. It also recommends the necessary steps for road authorities before starting an initiative to configure SafetyAnalyst for their network. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201210RT334E.
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Corporate Authors:
Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
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Authors:
- IZADPANAH, P
- Nicol, S
- Hadayeghi, A
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Conference:
- 2012 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: INNOVATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Location: Fredericton New Brunswick, Canada
- Date: 2012-10-14 to 2012-10-17
- Publication Date: 2012
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 17 p.
- Monograph Title: 2012 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Innovations and Opportunities
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Access roads; Calibration; Conferences; Crash rates; Data collection; High risk locations; Interchanges; Networks; Prevention; Roads; Safety; Software; Traffic density; Types of roads by network
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks; Traffic networks
- Geographic Terms: Canada
- ITRD Terms: 435: Access road; 1663: Accident black spot; 1661: Accident prevention; 1612: Accident rate; 6171: Calibration; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 433: Interchange; 1054: Network (traffic); 1053: Road network; 1665: Safety; 8645: Software; 673: Traffic concentration
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01480562
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
- Files: ITRD, TAC
- Created Date: May 1 2013 1:19PM