Plan4Safety – New Jersey‟s Crash Analysis and Decision Support Tool

Plan4Safety is a powerful tool that provides a myriad of benefits for safety professionals in New Jersey. This 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. More than identifying crash hot spots which merit further investigation and prioritizing them for potential safety improvements, Plan4Safety integrates statewide crash data, roadway characteristic data, calculates statistical analyses, incorporates network screening layers and models, and includes a visual analytical tool (GIS). These tools were developed with safety professionals' needs in mind and allow the users to hone in on problem areas so that site-specific improvements can be implemented. The software also contains essential tools for examining incident patterns and properties. Plan4Safety has already been put into action, helping many counties and municipalities in New Jersey pinpoint high-incident sites and evaluate particular factors that contribute to crashes in those locations. The New Jersey Department of Transportation – for whom the program was developed – metropolitan planning organizations, county and local engineers, and other decision makers can all use Plan4Safety to help resolve critical issues and assess the most sound and cost-effective ways to approach safety management, enhancement, and improvement.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Weissman, Sarah
  • Neshatfar, Mitra
• Conference:
  • 11th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities
  • Location: Portland OR, United States
  • Date: 2008-9-17 to 2008-9-19
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: Tools of the Trade: 11th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Decision support systems; Geographic information systems; High risk locations; Metropolitan planning organizations; Statistical analysis; Transportation engineering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crash analysis
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01139052
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 2009 9:24AM