Annual Evaluation Of Highway Safety Improvement Program

The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) comprises three components: planning, implementation, and evaluation. This guide focuses on the evaluation component, which provides a critical feedback loop to update processes and inform future decisions. The target audience includes safety program managers, project managers, data analysts, and researchers involved with project, countermeasure, or program evaluations, in particular HSIP evaluations. The purpose of the HSIP Evaluation Guide is to provide direction and resources to agencies that want to begin or enhance HSIP evaluation efforts. Readers will be prepared to track critical project details in support of HSIP evaluation, perform three different levels of evaluation (i.e., project, countermeasure, and program level), and use the results of HSIP evaluations to improve decisions and processes. Readers will also understand the methods, data requirements, and considerations associated with the different levels of evaluation. Examples from various States highlight noteworthy practices and the benefits of evaluation. Employing more consistent and reliable evaluation methods will support safety decision making, positively affect processes intended to reduce crashes, optimize return on investment of safety funding, and increase the effectiveness of projects and programs.

Highway Safety Improvement Program - National Performance Management Measures (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Highway Safety Improvement Program - National Performance Management Measures (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The purpose of this final rule is to establish performance measures for State departments of transportation (State DOT) to use to carry out the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and to assess the: Number of motor vehicle crash-related serious injuries and fatalities; number of serious injuries and fatalities of non-motorized users; and serious injuries and fatalities per vehicle miles traveled (VMT). This book contains: - The complete text of the Highway Safety Improvement Program - National Performance Management Measures (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

To reduce traffic fatalities and accidents, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) nearly doubled funding for the Fed. Hwy. Admin¿s. (FHWA) Hwy. Safety Improvement Program, authorizing $5.1 billion for 2006 through 2009. SAFETEA-LU also added requirements for states to develop strategic hwy. safety plans that cover all aspects of hwy. safety, including infrastructure, behavioral (education and enforcement), and emergency medical services projects; develop crash data analysis systems; and publicly report on the top 5% of hazardous locations on all their public roads. This testimony provides preliminary information on the implementation of HSIP since SAFETEA-LU. Illustrations.

The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid, state-administered program in which each state is required to develop and establish planning, implementation, and evaluation processes. The goal of evaluation activities is to determine if highway safety improvements are achieving the desired results and the investments are worthwhile. The goal of this study is to advance HSIP evaluation processes and practices at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and evaluate the safety and cost effectiveness of HSIP projects and countermeasures or work codes (WCs) that have been implemented in Texas over the last few years. This research involved: a) reviewing safety and cost effectiveness evaluation methods, state practices, and tools; b) gathering and compiling TxDOT data and assessing their appropriateness for supporting HSIP evaluations; c) developing safety and cost effectiveness evaluation tools for segments and intersections; and d) evaluating the effectiveness of implemented HSIP projects and countermeasures in Texas. The results show that the evaluated projects have been effective from both a safety and cost perspective in reducing target fatal, suspected serious injury, and non-incapacitating injury (KAB) crashes. The safety effectiveness index of 387 evaluated segment projects (treated as one group) was 0.84, and the corresponding index of 70 intersection projects (treated as one group) was 0.74, indicating an overall reduction in target KAB crashes after the projects were constructed. The benefit/cost ratio of all segment projects was 71.9 and that of all intersection projects (treated as one group) was 145.6.