Combined Behavioral/Engineering Approach to Preventing Highway Fatalities

The goal of Kentucky’s new Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is to prevent over 200 highway fatalities per year by 2024. Applying traditional, single-discipline approaches is not likely to produce this reduction. This project will investigate the potential of enhancing and/or combining engineering solutions with behavioral strategies (education/enforcement). The project’s first year will work toward development of a methodology. The second phase will pilot and test the methodology for Kentucky highway locations. Consideration will be given to specific geographic, temporal, and/or functional areas of the Kentucky highway system.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $160000
• Contract Numbers:

  KYSPR 21-601

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

  200 Mero Street
  Frankfort, KY  United States  40622
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281
• Principal Investigators:

  Blandford, Ben

  Souleyrette, Sudhir

• Start Date: 20200200
• Expected Completion Date: 20200220
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Highway safety; Methodology; Pilot studies; Safety education; Safety engineering; Strategic planning
• Geographic Terms: Kentucky
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01751315
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Contract Numbers: KYSPR 21-601
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 3 2020 2:47PM