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The need for including safety considerations in the long-range transportation planning process was not seriously considered until the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) included among the mandatory planning factors for the metropolitan planning process in urbanized areas one factor dealing with the safety and security of motorized and non-motorized users of the transportation system. However, this requirement presents some difficulties since transportation planners usually are not trained to do safety analysis, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) for small and medium sized areas often do not have adequate manpower and other resources needed to carry out a comprehensive safety program. Therefore, there is a need to examine thoroughly the scope of safety planning by MPOs and also analytical tools that may be needed. The paper presents a practical and comprehensive framework for proactive safety planning by MPOs in small and medium size communities. The paper examines each step/task of the long-range planning process, and identifies for each step how planners can make a contribution toward safety related activities. Issues involving the availability of crash data and the need to collaborate with other agencies are addressed. The paper also recognizes that crash prediction models currently available for safety analysis are difficult to use for long-range planning involving future highway networks because planners do not make forecasts of the values of the variables that are commonly used in these models. The paper presents a few examples of planning level tools that can be used for long-range plan development.

01044603

English

13p

2006

10th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

CD-ROM

References (8) ; Tables (5)

Long range planning; Medium sized cities; Metropolitan planning organizations; Planning; Safety; Small cities; Transportation planning

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Mar 23 2007 11:45AM

• 1995-2004 CARTS Pedestrian/Bicyclist Crash Analysis
• A Pavement Management System for County Roads in the State of Alabama
• Application of an Internet-Based Travel Survey in a Medium-Sized Community
• Applying Value Methodology to Metropolitan Transportation Planning
• Better, Stronger Faster; How Oblique Aerial Imagery Is Changing the Face of Transportation Planning
• Bozeman Bicycle Network Plan
• Comparison and Evaluation of Simplified Transportation Project Selection and Prioritization Methodologies for Use by Small and Medium Sized Planning Agencies
• Design Considerations to Mitigate Non-Response in Regional Household Travel Surveys
• Developing a Consistent, Flexible, and Defensible Methodology for State and Regional Transportation Planning
• Development of Travel Demand Modeling Tools for Small Area Planning Purposes
• Discrete Event Simulation of Forecasted Non-Urban Freight Movement
• Evaluating the Relative Safety of Access Management Treatments in Micro-Simulation
• Getting Innovative Traffic Forecasting Model Networks "In Shape" Quickly Using GIS Datasets
• Highway Ranking Model
• Implementation of a Public Transportation System in Casper, Wyoming
• Importance of Modeling Ozone Formation Attributable to Rural Interstate Traffic
• Innovative Financing at the Local Level: Project Funding for a Regional Transportation Agency
• Integrating Access Management into Local Transportation Planning
• La Entrada al Pacifico: Viability and Potential Impacts on the Odessa-Midland, Texas Area and Other Small Communities
• Local Road Safety Audits: A New Approach to an Old Problem
• Microsimulation for Transportation Planning for Small Communities
• New Approach for Updating Highway Functional Classifications
• PlanCheyenne - Co-Planning for MPOs
• Planning Analysis Toolbox for Small Urban Areas in North Carolina
• Potential Use of GPS Data for Calibrating Travel Demand Models
• Safe Routes to School in Superior, WI and Duluth, MN
• Six Hints for Better Public Process
• Strategic Transportation, Environmental Planning Process for Urbanizing Places (STEP UP)
• Successful Use of Public Involvement Tools - Johns Pass Bridge Project
• Supporting Transportation Planning in Small MPOs Through Partnerships and Innovative Methods
• The Bridge Between NEPA and Corridor Studies: The Story of Northern Bridge Corridor Study
• US-280 Access Management - Managing Small Town Economics
• Using Simplified Regression Analysis in Financial Planning for an MTP, or Seeing the Forest for the Trees
• Web-Based Delivery of Geospatial and Transportation Data for a Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Project
• When Big Projects Come to Smaller Places: The Communication Challenge
• Which Came First? The SR 386 Area Study