Federal Highway Administration
Office of Safety
FHWA-SA-14-072
August 2014
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| 1. Report No. FHWA-SA-14-072 |
2. Government Accession No. | 3. Recipient’s Catalog No. | ||||
| 4. Title and Subtitle Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads Safety Toolkit |
5. Report Date August 2014 |
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| 7. Author(s) Elizabeth Wemple, P.E., Timothy Colling, P.E. |
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| 9. Performing Organization Name and Address Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 555 12th Street, Suite 1600 Oakland, CA 94607 Michigan Technological University Center for Technology and Training 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 |
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| 11. Contract or Grant No. DTFH61-12-C-00034 |
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| 12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety 400 7th Street S.W. Washington, DC 20590 |
13. Type of Report and Period Covered Covered Technical Manual |
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| 15. Supplementary Notes Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Technical Manager: Rosemarie Anderson, Office of Safety Technical working group members: Craig Allred (FHWA Resource Center), Galen Balster (Federal Lands Highway), Dave Brand (Madison County, Ohio), Victoria Brinkly (Western Federal Lands Highway), Steve Castleberry (Nevada County, California), Clayton Chen (FHWA Research, Development, and Technology), Scott Davis (Thurston County, Washington), Kayloe Dawson (Chehalis Tribe), Thomas S. Elliot (FHWA National Highway Institute), Tony Giancola (Roadway Safety Foundation), Daniel Holt (Federal Lands Highway), Hillary Isebrands (FHWA Resource Center), Robin Lewis (City of Bend, Oregon), Nate Miller (Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission), Todd Morrison (Kentucky LTAP), Scott Nodes (Arizona DOT), Jessica Rich (FHWA Tennessee Division), Karen Timpone (FHWA Office of Safety), Dennis Trusty (Northern Plains TTAP) |
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| 16. 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. |
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| 17. Key Words Safety analysis, local roads, Tribal roads, safety management, network screening, site diagnosis, countermeasure selection, safety evaluation |
18. Distribution Statement No restrictions |
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| 19. Security Classif. (of this report) Unclassified |
20. Security Classif. (of this page) Unclassified |
21. No. of Pages 88 |
22. Price N/A |
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