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Title:

Wyoming Rural Road Safety Program

Accession Number:

01124199

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) contains language indicating that State Department of Transportation (DOTs) agencies will be required to address safety on local and rural roads. It is important for state, county, and city officials to cooperate in producing a comprehensive safety plan to improve safety statewide. This legislation provides an opportunity to implement a more cohesive and comprehensive approach to local road safety in Wyoming. The Wyoming Local Technical Assistant Program (LTAP) coordinated an effort in cooperation with the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) as well as Wyoming counties and cities to identify low cost safety improvements on high risk rural roads in Wyoming. In this project, safety techniques and methodologies were developed to identify and then rank high risk locations on all rural roadways in Wyoming. What makes this project unique is the high percentage of gravel roads at the local level in Wyoming. The evaluation procedure developed is based on historical crash record and field evaluations. The main objective of this research was to develop and evaluate transportation safety techniques that can help Wyoming agencies in reducing crashes and fatalities on rural roads state wide. Three Wyoming counties were included in the pilot study. The statewide implementation is expected at the beginning of 2009. This paper describes the findings and recommendations of this research study which would be very beneficial to those states interested in implementing a High Risk Rural Road (HRRR) Program.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-1917

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ksaibati, Khaled
Evans, Bart

Pagination:

27p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (8) ; Tables (10)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Crash reduction factors

Geographic Terms:

Wyoming

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-1917

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 6:11PM