@BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Hampton C. Gabler and Allison Daniello and Whitney Tatem and Ada Tsoi and Douglas J. Gabauer and Joel Stitzel and Joel Sink and Ryan Barnard", title = "Serious and Fatal Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Injury Information", abstract = "Motorcycle riders account for more fatalities than the passengers of any other vehicle type involved in a guardrail collision.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 327: Serious and Fatal Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Injury Information is a supplemental document to NCHRP Research Report 1005: Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Factors Related to Serious and Fatal Injuries.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26784/serious-and-fatal-motorcycle-crashes-into-traffic-barriers-injury-information", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Hampton C. Gabler and Allison Daniello and Whitney Tatem and Ada Tsoi and Douglas J. Gabauer and Joel Stitzel and Joel Sink and Ryan Barnard", title = "Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Factors Related to Serious and Fatal Injuries", abstract = "Motorcycle riders account for more fatalities than the passengers of any other vehicle type involved in a guardrail collision. In 2018, motorcycle riders accounted for 40% of all fatalities resulting from a guardrail collision.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1005: Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Factors Related to Serious and Fatal Injuries provides support for implementation of motorcyclist protection systems (MPS) in the United States.\nSupplemental to the report are a presentation and NCHRP Web-Only Document 327: Serious and Fatal Motorcycle Crashes into Traffic Barriers: Injury Information.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26785/motorcycle-crashes-into-traffic-barriers-factors-related-to-serious-and-fatal-injuries", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Development of Safety Performance-Based Guidelines for the Roadside Design Guide", abstract = "In 1960, it was observed that approximately 30% to 35% of highway fatalities occur in runoff-road collisions, a statistic that has remained remarkably constant through the present day.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 972: Development of Safety Performance-Based Guidelines for the Roadside Design Guide provides quantitative safety performance guidance, rather than implicit guidance, which will more effectively communicate design objectives and performance goals, and quantify improvements to safety. This change is complementary to the performance-based practical design approach being promoted by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, as well as the ongoing efforts to add performance-based design measures to the geometric design process as documented in NCHRP Report 785:Performance-Based Analysis of Geometric Design of Highways and Streets.\nSupplemental to the report are four appendices: Appendix A: Roadside Risk Workbook, Appendix B: Derivations, Appendix C: Serious and Fatal Injury Crash Tables, and Appendix D: Research Needs and Knowledge Gaps.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26763/development-of-safety-performance-based-guidelines-for-the-roadside-design-guide", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Malcolm H. Ray and Christine E. Carrigan and Chuck A. Plaxico and Shaw-Pin Miaou and T. Olaf Johnson", title = "Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP) Update", abstract = "Motor vehicle crashes cost society more than $230 billion annually. On an average day, 117 fatal crashes occur on U.S. roadways, and 30 percent of these fatalities are people under the age of 25. In total, this amounts to a societal loss of $630 million per day.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 319: Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP) Update details a safety-analysis program for run-off-road (ROR) traffic crashes, which account for almost one-third of the deaths and serious injuries each year on U.S. highways.Supplemental to the document are an RSAPv3 User's Manual, an RSAPv3 Engineer's Manual, an RSAPv3 Programmer\u2019s Manual, and a Survey Form and Results.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26521/roadside-safety-analysis-program-rsap-update", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Ingrid B. Potts and Douglas W. Harwood", title = "Design Guidelines for Mitigating Collisions with Trees and Utility Poles", abstract = "Each year, roadway departure crashes in the United States result in serious injuries and fatalities. More than 1 in 3 fatalities are associated with impacting fixed objects such as trees and utility poles.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1016: Design Guidelines for Mitigating Collisions with Trees and Utility Poles presents guidelines to quantitatively determine the safety risks posed by fixed objects placed in close proximity to roadways.Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 336: Proposed Guidlines for Fixed Objects in the Roadside Design Guide, a Spreadsheet Tool, an Implementation Plan, and a PowerPoint Slide Summary.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26777/design-guidelines-for-mitigating-collisions-with-trees-and-utility-poles", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Proposed Guidelines for Fixed Objects in the Roadside Design Guide", abstract = "Crash data show that more than 18,000 traffic fatalities per year result from roadway departures, and over 7,000 of those roadway departure crashes involved collisions with roadside fixed objects.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 336: Proposed Guidelines for Fixed Objects in the Roadside Design Guide helps develop an evaluation methodology and design guidance for use by engineering practitioners to quantify the relative risk of collisions with roadside fixed objects.\nThe document is supplemental to NCHRP Research Report 1016: Design Guidelines for Mitigating Collisions with Trees and Utility Poles.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26776/proposed-guidelines-for-fixed-objects-in-the-roadside-design-guide", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Frank Gross and Yuying Zhou and Chris Brasier", title = "Practices for Balancing Safety Investments in a Comprehensive Safety Program", abstract = "The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core federal-aid highway program with the purpose of achieving significant reductions in fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. Although there are federal requirements that guide state HSIP efforts, there are several variations in how state departments of transportation (DOTs) identify, prioritize, and evaluate HSIP projects.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Synthesis 592: Practices for Balancing Safety Investments in a Comprehensive Safety Program documents current state DOT practices for identifying, prioritizing, and evaluating HSIP projects.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26666/practices-for-balancing-safety-investments-in-a-comprehensive-safety-program", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Karen Dixon and Eun Sug Park and Marcus Brewer and Lingtao Wu and Srinivas Geedipally and Raghavan Srinivasan and Bo Lan and Charles Zegeer and Subasish Das and Emira Rista", title = "Guidelines for Treatments to Mitigate Opposite Direction Crashes", abstract = "From 2016 through 2018, there were more than 19,200 vehicles in the United States involved in opposite direction crashes that resulted in a fatality. Approximately 68 percent of these crashes occurred on two-lane roadways.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 995: Guidelines for Treatments to Mitigate Opposite Direction Crashes provides state departments of transportation (DOTs) practitioners and other transportation professionals with comprehensive guidelines for the selection of cost effective countermeasures to address opposite direction crashes.Supplemental to the report is a guidance document for selecting countermeasures.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26586/guidelines-for-treatments-to-mitigate-opposite-direction-crashes", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Jaime Sullivan and Karalyn Clouser and John Shaw", title = "Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap", abstract = "Although only 19% of the population live in rural areas, more than 70% of the U.S.\u2019s four million miles of roadways are in rural areas. The rural transportation system also includes numerous airports; railways; inland and coastal waterways; rural and intercity buses; and bicycle, pedestrian, and multi-use paths and trails. In addition, approximately 47% of the nation\u2019s motor vehicle fatalities occur in rural areas.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 988: Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap is designed to assist state departments of transportation and other public agencies and help inform policy\u2013driven investment decisions.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26343/rural-transportation-issues-research-roadmap", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "John Gambatese and Joseph Louis and Chukwuma Nnaji", title = "Guide to Alternative Technologies for Preventing and Mitigating Vehicle Intrusions into Highway Work Zones", abstract = "Work zone intrusion technologies are designed to warn workers and drivers of potential intrusion, provide a barrier to prevent intrusion, detect and alert drivers and workers during intrusion, and\/or protect workers and drivers following intrusion.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1003: Guide to Alternative Technologies for Preventing and Mitigating Vehicle Intrusions into Highway Work Zones is designed to be applicable to the construction and maintenance work performed by all departments of transportation and to help reduce motorist and worker injuries and fatalities.Supplemental to the report are NCHRP Web-Only Document 322: Alternative Technologies for Mitigating the Risk of Injuries and Deaths in Work Zones: Conduct of Research, a presentation, an implementation memo, a Decision Support System User Guide Coversheet, a Decision Support System User Guide, and a Decision Support System Tool.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26625/guide-to-alternative-technologies-for-preventing-and-mitigating-vehicle-intrusions-into-highway-work-zones", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Richard A. Madrid, Jr.", title = "Command-Level Decision Making for Transportation Emergency Managers", abstract = "Command-level decision making is a critical factor in successfully managing and mitigating critical incidents.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Document 75: Command-Level Decision Making for Transportation Emergency Managers is a document done in collaboration with TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The work is designed to assist public transportation agencies, state departments of transportation (DOTs), and airports to develop training and exercises as they prepare for natural or manmade disaster incidents. It can also be used by organizations as they prepare to meet training and exercise requirements.Supplemental to the document are artifacts and scenario outlines and narratives.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26587/command-level-decision-making-for-transportation-emergency-managers", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Karen Dixon and Kay Fitzpatrick and Dominique Lord and Chiara Silvestri Dobrovolny and Raul Avelar and Bahar Dadashova and Fred Mannering and Nawaf Alnawmasi and Jennifer Atkinson and Joseph Jones and Adil Cheema and K.C. Matthews", title = "Guide to Understanding Effects of Raising Speed Limits", abstract = "Over the past decade, there has been a trend toward higher speed limits, especially on rural interstates and freeways. Eleven states have increased speed limits to 75 mph, with some of them raising the limit as high as 85 mph on freeways and 75 mph on other roads.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1006: Guide to Understanding Effects of Raising Speed Limits provides a better understanding of the expected safety implications of increasing speed limits to 75 mph or higher.\nSupplemental to the report are a presentation and NCHRP Web-Only Document 328: Safety Effects of Raising Speed Limits to 75 mph and Higher.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26769/guide-to-understanding-effects-of-raising-speed-limits", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Bernie Arseneau and Gina Baas and Pam Fischer and Patricia Ott and Kim Kolody Silverman", title = "Guide to Implementation of the Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy on Highway Safety", abstract = "In June 2014, eight associations that represent government agencies involved in highway safety released the document Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategy on Highway Safety. This national strategy describes a long-term vision of zero traffic-related deaths and outlines the current challenges that need to be tackled.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 324: Guide to Implementation of the Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy on Highway Safety details the status of a committed and sustained collaboration among all highway safety stakeholders, as well as for reaching out to new partners who have not previously engaged in these efforts. In addition, this strategy places emphasis on promoting a positive traffic safety culture for organizations and society that supports the TZD vision.Supplemental to the document are a Road Map for Implementing the TZD National Strategy on Highway Safety, a Communications How To Guide, presentations (the Stakeholder Self-Assessment Tool, a Template, a Web Tutorial on Engaging Government Agencies, a Web Tutorial on Engaging the Private Sector, and a Web Tutorial on Engaging the Public), and 10 videos.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26627/guide-to-implementation-of-the-toward-zero-deaths-national-strategy-on-highway-safety", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Daniel Carter and Raghavan Srinivasan and Frank Gross and Scott Himes and Thanh Le and Bhagwant Persaud and Craig Lyon and James Bonneson", title = "Guidelines for the Development and Application of Crash Modification Factors", abstract = "Crash modification factors (CMF) provide transportation professionals with the kind of quantitative information they need to make decisions on where best to invest limited safety funds.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 991: Guidelines for the Development and Application of Crash Modification Factors describes a procedure for estimating the effect of a proposed treatment on a site of interest.Supplemental to the report are a CMF regression tool, a CMF combination tool, a slide summary, and an implementation memo.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26408/guidelines-for-the-development-and-application-of-crash-modification-factors", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Kenneth W. Kizer and Rebecca A. English and Meredith Hackmann", title = "Realizing the Promise of Equity in the Organ Transplantation System", isbn = "978-0-309-27072-4", abstract = "Each year, the individuals and organizations in the U.S. organ donation, procurement, allocation, and distribution system work together to provide transplants to many thousands of people, but thousands more die before getting a transplant due to the ongoing shortage of deceased donor organs and inequitable access to transplant waiting lists.\nRealizing the Promise of Equity in the Organ Transplantation System, a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine\u2019s Committee on A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution, provides expert recommendations to improve fairness, equity, transparency, and cost-effectiveness in the donor organ system.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26364/realizing-the-promise-of-equity-in-the-organ-transplantation-system", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "K. Kolody and D. Perez-Bravo and J. Zhao and T. R. Neuman", title = "Highway Safety Manual User Guide", abstract = "The Highway Safety Manual can be used to identify sites with the most potential for crash frequency or severity reduction; identify contributing factors to crashes and mitigation measures; and estimate the potential crash frequency and severity on highway networks, among other uses.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 323: Highway Safety Manual User Guide is a user-friendly, companion and reference document that helps safety analysts use the Highway Safety Manual.Supplemental to the document are three Peer Exchange Reports from Irvine, California; Baltimore, Maryland; and Nashville, Tennessee; and three Tech Briefings (1, 2, and 3).", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26552/highway-safety-manual-user-guide", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Karen Dixon and Kay Fitzpatrick and Dominique Lord and Chiara Silvestri Dobrovolny and Raul Avelar and Bahar Dadashova and Fred Mannering and Nawaf Alnawmasi and Jennifer Atkinson and Joseph Jones and Adil Cheema and K.C. Matthews", title = "Safety Effects of Raising Speed Limits to 75 mph and Higher", abstract = "Across the United States, maximum speed limit laws vary dramatically. In the mid-1990s, many states increased speed limits to 75 mph on select roads. More recently, some states have established speed limits greater than 75 mph.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 328: Safety Effects of Raising Speed Limits to 75 mph and Higher is supplemental to NCHRP Research Report 1006: Guide to Understanding Effects of Raising Speed Limits.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26770/safety-effects-of-raising-speed-limits-to-75-mph-and-higher", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Research and Technology Coordinating Committee Letter Report: September 29, 2022", abstract = "A September 29, 2022 letter report from TRB's Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (RTCC) summarizes 2021 and 2022 meetings between the committee and the Federal Highway Administration\u2019s Office of Research, Development, and Technology with a focus on Complete Streets activities. FHWA asked the committee for advice on this topic because it is an emphasis area in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that FHWA is intent on supporting through the development of research-informed guidance tools and training for state and local transportation agencies.\nAfter two meetings of in-depth discussion on FHWA\u2019s plans and progress in this topic area, RTCC members welcomed the opportunity to provide their observations and impressions on the scope and direction of the work and to offer suggestions and options for next steps.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26758/research-and-technology-coordinating-committee-letter-report-september-29-2022", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Jeffery E. Warner and Dahye Lee and Amber B. Trueblood and James C. Cline, Jr. and Neal A. Johnson and Andrew Christjoy", title = "Strategies for Deterring Trespassing on Rail Transit and Commuter Rail Rights-of-Way, Volume 1: Guidebook", abstract = "A great risk facing the rail transit and commuter rail industries is the continuing problem with trespassing incidents occurring on systems throughout the United States.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 233: Strategies for Deterring Trespassing on Rail Transit and Commuter Rail Rights-of-Way, Volume 1: Guidebook provides guidance on strategies to deter trespassing on rail transit and commuter rail exclusive and semi-exclusive rights-of-way, including within station areas outside designated pedestrian crossings.Supplemental to the report is TCRP Research Report 233: Strategies for Deterring Trespassing on Rail Transit and Commuter Rail Rights-of-Way, Volume 2: Research Overview, an interactive spreadsheet, and a video.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26504/strategies-for-deterring-trespassing-on-rail-transit-and-commuter-rail-rights-of-way-volume-1-guidebook", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Selection and Placement Guidelines for Test Level 2 Through Test Level 5 Median Barriers", abstract = "The variety of median widths and terrains combined with evolving testing specifications and lack of conclusive data on median crossover crashes have been obstacles to developing median barrier guidance.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 996: Selection and Placement Guidelines for Test Level 2 Through Test Level 5 Median Barriers develops, in a format suitable for consideration and possible adoption by AASHTO, proposed guidelines for the selection and placement of Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) Test Levels 2 through 5 (TL2-TL5) median barriers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26679/selection-and-placement-guidelines-for-test-level-2-through-test-level-5-median-barriers", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }