Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Practices. Topic 55-10. Implementation of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Proven Safety Countermeasures

State departments of transportation (DOTs) consider and implement various safety countermeasures on their transportation networks to improve transportation safety. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety provides a list of and resources for 28 proven safety countermeasures (PSCs) and suggests their use for state DOTs and other agencies, as these PSCs have been shown through research to help reduce fatalities and serious injuries on the nation’s roadways (https://highways.dot.gov/safety/proven-safety-countermeasures). FHWA groups these PSCs into five categories: speed management, pedestrian/bicyclist, roadway departure, intersections, and crosscutting. As the number of FHWA PSCs has grown from nine to 28, there is a need for a greater understanding of DOTs’ practices for their use. This synthesis addressed the need for more knowledge regarding the practices of state DOTs for FHWA PSCs. The objective of the synthesis was to review and document state DOT practices regarding the implementation of the FHWA PSCs. Research is complete. The final report is published as Synthesis Report 639 and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.17226/28855

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5477

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $55,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-05, Topic 55-10

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Nasri, Arefeh

• Performing Organizations:
  ,   Germany 

  University of Missouri, Columbia

  Columbia, MO  United States  65211
• Principal Investigators:

  Brown, Henry

• Start Date: 20230427
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20241230

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Performance measurement; Plan implementation; Prevention; State departments of transportation; State of the practice; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01884765
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-05, Topic 55-10
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 9 2023 7:21PM