Analyzing Strategies to Improve Work Zone Safety

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), fatal crashes in work zones have increased from 521 in 2010 to 762 in 2019 nationally. Due to the importance of work zone safety, states aim to develop guidelines to identify best strategies for setting work zone speed limits considering the safety of construction workers and drivers. This project aims to review the current literature on practices, reports, and manuals to outline existing safety technologies and approaches implemented in work zones by states. Furthermore, the impacts of several speed limit reduction strategies on enhancing safety and traffic operations in these areas will be investigated. The effectiveness of the proposed procedure and strategies can be determined by collecting speed and crash data from work zones which will allow for the development of a general framework to establish a work zone speed limit.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/analyzing-strategies-improve-work-zone-safety

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $46000
• Contract Numbers:

  DOT 69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Managing Organizations:

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Jafarsalehi, Ghazaleh

  Zhang, Michael

• Start Date: 20211001
• Expected Completion Date: 20220930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Safety analysis; Speed limits; Work zone safety; Work zones
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01832548
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 13 2022 5:26PM