Incorporating Safety into Long-Range Transportation Planning (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Are safety analysis tools used regularly to analyze the potential impacts of prospective strategies and actions? Are evaluation criteria used for assessing the relative merits of different strategies and projects including safety-related issues?
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• Can the desired safety-related characteristic of the transportation system be forecasted or predicted? If not, is there a surrogate measure or characteristic that will permit one to determine future safety performance?
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• Can the safety performance measures link to the evaluation criteria that will be used later in the planning process to assess the relative benefits of one project or strategy over others? If so, can the safety performance measures be forecast or predicted for future years?
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Are there analysis tools currently available in the agency or in partner agencies that can be used to determine the effectiveness of these types of strategies? If not, are there analysis tools available elsewhere?
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Are they appropriately identified in the documents? • If other comprehensive safety plans exist for the state or region, are the transportation plan and program consistent with the goals, performance measures, actions and strategies as indicated in these comprehensive plans?
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• Prepare and present information on what benefits are likely to occur to this safety situation with the implementation of a comprehensive safety strategy in the state or community. • Prepare prototypical vision statements that include safety as part of the vision (or identify such statements used by others in the U.S.)
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. Analysis -- Tools • Inventory the types of safety analysis tools that exist in the state or metropolitan area's safety-related agencies.
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Plan and Program Development • Include safety stakeholders in the culminating planning steps leading to the approval of a transportation plan and program. • Develop safety priority factors that can be used to give safety-beneficial projects more priority in programming decisions.
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In particular, Appendix C provides a brief description of many tools that are available to transportation planners and engineers for the analysis and evaluation of the safety aspects of project and system performance. Research and tool development for safety conscious planning will certainly continue in future years.
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