Comment:
Assessment organization's use of safety measures: questions will help stakeholders review opportunities for developing safety performance measures and linking them to transportation planning and programming. This checklist is a tool for Assessment an organization’s current status in using safety performance measures in the transportation planning and decision-making process. The answers to these questions should be used to strategically identify actions that lead to the use of safety performance measures in planning and programming.

Last Updated (Year): 2009

Year Produced: 2009

Abstract:

This Primer is a tool to help State and local practitioners, transportation planners, and decision-makers identify, select, and use safety performance measures as a part of the transportation planning process. The Primer draws from current literature, professional experience, and State DOT and MPO practice. Key elements of the Primer include: a definition of performance measures;a step-by-step description and flowchart showing how safety performance measures can be identified and integrated into the transportation planning process;characteristics of effective performance measures;a checklist to assess an organization's current status with respect to the use of safety performance measures in the transportation planning and decision-making process;a list of references;and case studies of noteworthy practice.

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The E's:Evaluation

Ped Bike Activity:

• Planning
• Counting
• Assessment

Ped Bike Topic:

• Tools
• Statistics
• Safety
• Planning Processes
• Data Collection
• Data
• Countermeasures

Resource Type:

• Information

Link to Content Source:

Primer on Safety Performance Measures for the Transportation Planning Process