NTL Record

Title Improving safety on rural local and tribal roads safety toolkit.
Record ID 54380
Personal Name
Creator
Wemple, Elizabeth; Colling, Timothy K.
Corporate Creator Cambridge Systematics; Michigan Technological University
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
Publication Date 20140800
Language English
Abstract Rural roadway safety is an important issue for communities throughout the country and presents a challenge for state, local, and Tribal agencies. The Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Safety Toolkit was created to help rural local and Tribal roadway safety practitioners address these challenges. The Safety Toolkit provides a step-by-step process to assist local agency and Tribal practitioners in completing traffic safety analyses, identify safety issues, countermeasures to address them, and an implementation process. Each step in the Toolkit contains a set of tools, examples, and links to resources appropriate to the needs of safety practitioners. The report presents a seven-step safety analysis process based on a similar process developed in the Highway Safety Manual. The seven steps are: compile data; conduct network screening; select sites for investigation; diagnose site conditions and identify countermeasures; prioritize countermeasures for implementation; implement countermeasures; and evaluate effectiveness of implemented countermeasures. Accompanying the Safety Toolkit are two User Guides (FHWA-SA-14-073 and FHWA-SA-14-074) which present step-by-step processes of example scenarios.
Rosap ID dot:28361
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28361
TRT Terms Roads; Rural highways; Highway safety; Traffic safety
General Subjects Safety analysis, local roads, Tribal roads, safety management, network screening, site diagnosis, countermeasure selection, safety evaluation
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1551449
Contract Number DTFH61-12-C-00034
Report Number FHWA-SA-14-072
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/54000/54300/54380/imp_safety_rural_tribal_roads_toolkit.pdf
Alternative URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/54000/54300/54380/imp_safety_rural_tribal_roads_user_guide_01.pdf; https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/54000/54300/54380/imp_safety_rural_tribal_roads_user_guide_02.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository