Comment:
This chapter lists the seven principles that can be implemented and institutionalized during each task in the transportation planning process to ensure safety is explicitly recognized. The intent of the framework is to provide MPO and DOT transportation planners with a range of ideas, strategies, and techniques for addressing safety or considering it in a more comprehensive and explicit manner. The strategies include (1) Include Safety Experts on Planning Committees or Discuss Safety at Committee Meetings, (2) Collect and Analyze Transportation Safety Data, (3) Incorporate Safety into the Vision, Goals, and Objectives, (4) Integrate Safety Performance Measures into the Performance Management System, (5) Incorporate Safety in Planning Programs and Documents, (6) Establish Safety as a Decision Factor, (7) Implement a Monitoring System and Regularly Evaluate Performance

Last Updated (Year): 2015

Year Produced: 2015

Abstract:

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 811: Institutionalizing Safety in Transportation Planning Processes: Techniques, Tactics, and Strategies provides field-tested guidance on institutionalizing the integration of safety into transportation planning and programming processes. The guidebook also provides ways to measure the effectiveness and success of integration efforts.

For:Walking

The E's:Evaluation, Engineering

Ped Bike Activity:

• Planning
• Auditing
• Assessment

Ped Bike Topic:

• Tools
• Research
• Planning Processes
• Data Collection
• Data
• Assessment
• Analysis

Resource Type:

• Guidance

Link to Content Source:

NCHRP Report 811 Institutionalizing Safety in Transportation Planning Processes