Safety has always been an important component in the planning, design, and operation of highways. In an effort to reduce crashes occurring on highway facilities, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy for Users of 2005 established a new Highway Safety Improvement Program that encourages the integration of safety into the decision-making process and facilitates the expenditure of funds for highway safety improvement. A framework for highway safety mitigation is outlined in this report that provides a logical and comprehensive context within which efforts to improve highway safety can be made. This framework has been developed around the Roadway Safety Management Process contained in the Highway Safety Manual and has six primary steps: (1) Network Screening; (2) Diagnosis; (3) Countermeasure Selection; (4) Economic Appraisal; (5) Project Prioritization; and (6) Effectiveness Evaluation. The application of this framework and the predictive methods of safety analysis it entails requires familiarity with the latest advances in highway safety research and practices. Therefore, recommendations on safety workforce development are presented along with a summary of possible training resources. The framework for highway safety mitigation and safety workforce development recommendations provided in this report are part of an ongoing effort to improve highway safety across the state of Utah and will play an important role in training the next generation of safety experts that will be able to meet the highway safety needs of tomorrow.


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    Titel :

    Transportation Safety Data and Analysis, Volume 3: Framework for Highway Safety Mitigation and Workforce Development


    Beteiligte:
    M. Saito (Autor:in) / S. C. Dudley (Autor:in) / G. G. Schultz (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011


    Format / Umfang :

    88 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch