Enhancing Road Safety for All Road Users
The project strives to mitigate crashes, with emphasis on outcomes that are fatal or life altering, based on the needs of road users across all modes of travel. It will focus on travel needs of those who have limited access to personal motorized travel options. It will obtain and analyze safety related data, and engage with stakeholders, road network owners and operators, elected and appointed officials to develop strategies to enhance road safety in their jurisdictions and across the region. Research shows that in states like Nevada, where costs to own and operate a vehicle are high, families whose annual incomes are less than $50K struggle to own and operate a vehicle. Further, families who earn under $25k annually are simply not able to own and operate a vehicle. Due to the wide street design and high operating speeds of motor vehicles on these streets in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, individuals in motor vehicles are at greater risk of critical and fatal injuries than in areas with lower operating speeds and narrow streets. Further, those who travel without the use of a personal motor vehicle to get to their jobs are at greater risk for critical traffic incidents. This project will utilize crash data, census data, coroner data to examine the geo-spatial characteristics of crash history and observed road behaviors. At identified high crash locales, we will utilize advanced sensor technologies (e.g. camera, radar, lidar) and other automated technologies. The combination of such data will enable us to identify potential for change and determine countermeasures required to address the identified problems. A comparative analysis will consider the issues on the street, crash characteristics, land use and residential characteristics, and best practices to mitigate problems by road design specific to local needs. We will use the electronic data we collect and the available crash data for the most recent 5 years (2018-2022, and update city and county officials of the needs in their jurisdictions. We will assure that local road users law enforcement agencies are consulted to help identify needs and develop countermeasures; these are two groups who are often not included in the discussion of issues that affect them every day. We will then work with stakeholders, elected officials as well as the planning and engineering departments to develop strategies to enhance road safety in the region.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $31228
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
2400 6th Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20059 - Performing Organizations: Las Vegas, NV United States
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Principal Investigators:
Breen, Erin
- Start Date: 20240531
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash rates; Data analysis; Equity; High risk locations; Low income groups; Traffic safety
- Geographic Terms: Nevada
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01931422
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Research and Education for Promoting Safety (REPS) University Transportation Center
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Sep 19 2024 2:39PM