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Title:

Using Highway Safety Manual Predictive Method to Prioritize Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Projects

Accession Number:

01623657

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) administers the All Roads Transportation Safety (ARTS) Program to address safety on all public roads including non-state roadways. Approximately seven percent of the total safety funding is allocated to the pedestrian/bicycle emphasis area, which is one of the three emphasis areas of the systemic component of the ARTS Program. Traditionally ODOT has been using benefit-cost ratio, which is calculated using crash history of a given location, to justify and prioritize projects. Benefits are calculated by converting expected crash reduction due to the proposed improvement(s) in to economic values. However, since the number of reported vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle crashes is low compared to vehicle-only crashes, using the benefit-cost ratio to prioritize projects in the pedestrian/bicycle emphasis area would exclude many potential locations from funding considerations. These locations might be susceptible to vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle crashes but do not have the reported crashes required for traditional safety analysis. ODOT used the predictive method presented in the Part C of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) to predict vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle crashes and used predicted crashes to perform the cost-effectiveness analysis. Projects were prioritized based on the cost-effectiveness index (CEI). Although the HSM predictive method has some shortcomings, ODOT used it successfully to select projects in the pedestrian/bicycle emphasis area of the ARTS Program on both state highways and local agency roadways. It is anticipated that these projects will help achieve the goal of the program by reducing fatal and serious injury crashes on all roads of the state.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB25 Standing Committee on Highway Safety Performance.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-00602

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Siddique, Zahidul Q
Bish, Douglas W
Salyer, Amanda W

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References (17) ; Tables

Candidate Terms:

Bicycle vehicle interface

Geographic Terms:

Oregon

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-00602

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:07AM