01620189

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2635-01

A strategic highway safety plan (SHSP) is a comprehensive, statewide, data-driven safety plan that coordinates activities across agencies to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. In 2015, California updated its SHSP with the input of hundreds of stakeholders. To implement a multiyear effort that involves many primary actors, the challenge is to track decisions and progress in an efficient manner as well as to have in place a state safety program that is accountable and transparent to its stakeholders. The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a tracking tool for California’s updated SHSP. The steering committee and other key stakeholders involved in the SHSP implementation phase provided substantial input. The SHSP tracking tool is a user-friendly, low-cost, easily maintained resource that multiple stakeholders update. Written in PHP on a single-page website, the SHSP Tracking Tool is a mechanism that allows users to contact leaders, track progress, run reports, and review performance measures on all SHSP projects. As activities move forward, the tool will provide a primary repository of SHSP internal documents and a community forum through which to evaluate progress and advance the efforts of California’s SHSP safety stakeholders. The tool reflects federal and state transportation calls to ensure that safety efforts are data and performance driven and can be adapted for use with any state’s SHSP.

01631075

17-05511

English

pp 1–10

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441612

Digital/other

Figures (8) ; References (3)

Highway safety; Performance measurement; Web applications

Strategic Highway Safety Plan

California

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:11PM

• Application of an Intelligent Transportation System in a Travel Time Information System: Safety Assessment and Management
• Geographic Information System–Based Spatial and Statistical Analysis of Severe Crash Hotspot Accessibility to Hospitals
• Implementation of Active Traffic Management Strategies for Safety on Congested Expressway Weaving Segments
• Improving the Self-Explaining Performance of Czech National Roads
• Multiobjective Evaluation in Countermeasure Selection at Two-Way Stop-Controlled Intersections: Considering Traffic Operation, Safety, and Environment
• Observations on the Use of Crash Modification Factor-Corrected Crash Prediction Models to Identify Sites with Promise
• Probability of Secondary Crash Occurrence on Freeways with the Use of Private-Sector Speed Data
• Roadway Safety Policy and Leadership: Case Study of Six Midwest States
• Trend Analyses of Emergency Medical Services for Motor Vehicle Crashes: Michigan Case Study
• Understanding Traffic Safety Culture: Implications for Increasing Traffic Safety