Performance-based Assessment to Transportation Safety Planning for Metropolitan Travel Improvement Study
Nebraska’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) sets an ambitious “Toward Zero Deaths” safety goal that aims to improve highway safety with strategic countermeasures to fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. This vision is integral to transportation safety management in Nebraska and is advanced by the Metropolitan Travel Improvement Study (MTIS) for Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. This quantitative safety performance study conducted here stands as an important milestone for key decision making for the Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) and the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA). This study establishes a framework for implementing the quantitative safety evaluation process envisioned in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Highway Safety Manual (HSM) with the objectives: (1) focusing on the process of identifying freeway and major arterial locations with the greatest safety improvement potential in the MTIS by applying a micro-level network screening method based on the HSM; (2) using the study’s detailed analysis of the most recent 5 years of historical crash data to understand contributing crash factors; and (3) performing predictive safety performance of six strategy packages for design year 2040. With this knowledgebase, safety strategies to mitigate fatal and serious injuries were determined and countermeasures selected in the light of the Federal Highway Administration Crash Modification Factor Clearinghouse. This paper focuses on a performance-based approach to compare safety performance to transportation planning alternatives and provides an analytical framework to assist safety professionals, designers, planners, and policy makers at state and local levels in making informed decisions.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10 Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Islam, Mouyid
- Perez-Bravo, Dante
- Silverman, Kimberly Kolody
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 22p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash causes; Fatalities; High risk locations; Highway planning; Highway safety
- Identifier Terms: Toward Zero Deaths
- Geographic Terms: Council Bluffs (Iowa); Omaha (Nebraska)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01628205
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-06667
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 7 2017 10:25AM