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Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) Program

The mission of the DCMF program is to save lives by identifying new safety strategies that effectively reduce crashes and promote strategies for nationwide installation by providing measures of their safety effectiveness. State departments of transportation (DOTs) and other transportation...

DCMF Studies

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) program was established in 2012 to address highway safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies (improvements) by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their...

Safety Data Resources

Task B3-3: Identify CMF Research Needs—Safety Data Resources

This document identifies safety databases that could be used to help accomplish the following tasks, through other Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) or partner efforts, related to crash modification factor (CMF)...

Strategy and Technology Tracking Structure

Task B3-3: Identify CMF Research Needs

Structure for Tracking New Safety Strategies and Technologies

Background

A method is needed to track new strategies and technologies as they are developed and deployed on our Nation’s roadways...

IHSDM Library

The IHSDM Library includes all recently published materials on IHSDM in online and/or hard copy format. Past published materials, denoted as archive, are also available; these materials are somewhat dated, but may still contain information of interest to serious researchers. Some publications...

IHSDM Resource List 2019

A product of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Research and Development Program, the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of safety analysis tools to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric-design decisions on highways.

IHSDM Flyer 2017

Improving roadway safety continues to be at the forefront of all stages of project development, including planning, alternatives analysis, design, construction, and operations.

Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM): Overview

IHSDM is a suite of software analysis tools used to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways.

IHSDM is a decision-support tool that provides estimates of a highway design's expected safety and operational performance....

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SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study Pooled Fund: Advancing Implementable Solutions TPF 5(361)


Seven State DOTs (AL, CT, IA, IL, NV, UT, WA) and three FHWA Offices (Office Safety R&D, Office of Operations, Office of Planning, Environment...