Pedestrians and Transit

• Improving Safety for Pedestrians and Bicyclists Accessing Transit is a guide for transit agencies, State and local roadway owners, and regional planning organizations. It addresses the...

Education and Outreach

Safer Journey

• Pedestrian Safer Journey (revised 2013) helps educators, parents and others who care about pedestrian safety to get the conversation started with children and youth. Available online, three videos — one for each of three age groups —...

General Information

SafetyEdge℠  is a simple and effective solution to...

Frequently Asked Questions: Barriers, Terminals, Transitions, Attenuators, and Bridge Railings

FHWA barrier guidance is contained in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide. However, FHWA field offices often raise numerous issues that involve interpretations, extrapolations, device selection, hardware deployment, or simply trying to fit safety devices into real world...

Reduce Crash Severity

Hardware, such as barriers, sign supports, and work zone devices are commonly used to reduce the potential severity of crashes on the roadside. Crash testing is used to evaluate the crashworthiness of these devices.

The American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (...

Rumble Strips and Rumble Stripes

Welcome to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Rumble Strips and Rumble Stripes website. This site contains information about longitudinal center line, edge line, and shoulder rumble strips and stripes.

What's New: There is a ...

Guidance Memorandum on Consideration and Implementation of Proven Safety Countermeasures

Subject: ACTION: Consideration and Implementation of Proven Safety Countermeasures

Date: July 10, 2008

From: Jeffrey A. Lindley, Associate Administrator for Safety

In Reply...

Memorandum January 12, 2012

Pedestrian Safety Countermeasure Deployment Project

In 2002, the Federal Highway Administration awarded grants to the cities of San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami to examine and map out their pedestrian crashes and develop a plan for deploying and evaluating various pedestrian safety countermeasures in high crash “zones” and locations. The...

Pedestrian Road Safety Audits

Road Safety Audit (RSA) is the formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection by an independent, multidisciplinary team. It qualitatively estimates and reports on potential road safety issues and identifies opportunities for improvements in safety for all...