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Noteworthy Practices

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Noteworthy Practices

Florida: Texas-Americana Road Safety Small Area Study

  • The Safety Concern: Elevated crash rates on local roadways and intersections.
  • The Solution: Launch of a small-area Road Safety Audit.
  • The Result: Identification and remediation of safety concerns.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Washington: 2014 County Safety Program

  • The Safety Concern: Most effective disbursement of HSIP funds to local agencies.
  • The Solution: Implementation of a County Safety Program.
  • The Result: HSIP funding directed toward highest priority targets.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Montana: Roadway Departure Study and Safety Information Management System

  • The Safety Concern: Need for more robust safety analysis.
  • The Solution: Development of safety performance functions and the software with which to use them to evaluate actual performance against a baseline.
  • The Result: Increased ability to incorporate safety into more functions of the DOT.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Virginia: Road Diets in Reston

  • The Safety Concern: Speeding and crashes on a 4-lane undivided road.
  • The Solution: Implementation of a Road Diet.
  • The Result: Safer operating speeds and sharp decreases in crashes.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Florida: Advanced Lighting Measurement System

  • The Safety Concern: Collecting crucial data on lighting intensity was labor intensive, expensive, and dangerous.
  • The Solution: Deployment of an Advanced Lighting Measurement System.
  • The Result: Significantly higher quantities of data collected using this safer, more cost-effective methodology.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Arkansas: Improving Interstate Safety with Pavement Surface Treatments

  • The Safety Concern: High rates of wet-weather roadway departure crashes on the Interstate.
  • The Solution: Treatment of pavement with ultra-thin bonded wearing course.
  • The Result: Significant decreases in roadway departure crashes related to wet conditions.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Michigan: Statewide Non-Freeway Rumble Strip Initiative

  • The Safety Concern: Fatal crashes related to lane departure.
  • The Solution: Systemic application of centerline and shoulder rumble strips for high speed, non-freeway roadways.
  • The Result: Significant reductions in fatal crashes.

(2015 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)

Tennessee: Safety Projects Evaluation Report

  • The Safety Concern: Outcome evaluations are an important, but often-overlooked, element in demonstrating that safety investments achieved their real-world potential.
  • The Solution: A thorough review of six years of safety projects.
  • The Result: Strong, actionable evidence for TDOT showing a 60% reduction in crash frequency overall, and cost-effectively identifying additional locations in need of further study or improvement.

(2017 National Roadway Safety Awards - Winner)