The Toolkit includes a set of tools intended to help local and tribal agencies integrate road safety into their existing responsibilities. Specifically, it will help users to:

• Study and improve safety at specific intersections or road segments.
• Study and improve safety for an entire category of roadway or intersections types (e.g., all two-way stop controlled intersections or all two-lane rural highways in a community).

The Toolkit provides a step-by-step process for conducting roadway safety analysis. Each step in the Toolkit contains a set of tools, examples, and links to resources appropriate to the needs of safety practitioners. The process is demonstrated through hypothetical examples (available in the accompanied User guides), from analyzing roadway and crash data, to identifying safety issues and needs, to selecting and implementing countermeasures to address them. The Toolkit is accompanied by two user guides. Each demonstrates the Toolkit in practice by walking through a typical road safety analysis scenario.

• User Guide 1: Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Site Safety Analysis describes how to conduct a site-specific safety analysis.
• User Guide 2: Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Network Safety Analysis describes how to conduct a proactive analysis of a component of the transportation network such as all two-lane road segments, or all stop-controlled intersections.