This User Manual describes the usage and operation of the spreadsheet-based Interchange Safety Analysis Tool (ISAT). ISAT provides design and safety engineers with an automated tool for assessing the safety effects of geometric design and traffic control features at an existing interchange and adjacent roadway network. ISAT can also be used to predict the safety performance of design alternatives for new interchanges and prior to reconstruction of existing interchanges. The primary outputs from an analysis include: the number of predicted crashes for the entire interchange area, the number of predicted crashes by interchange element type, the number of predicted crashes by year, and the number of predicted crashes by collision type. The
User Manual presents basic information for getting started with using ISAT, the general methodology that users will follow when conducting an analysis with ISAT, input requirements of the program, default data incorporated within the program and recommendations on when and how these default data should be updated by the user, output reports generated by ISAT, and general information on different applications for which ISAT can be applied. For more information on ISAT, the user is referred to the final project report for Contract No. DTFH61-05-P-00302.