Effectiveness of Behavioral Highway Safety Countermeasures

This project's objectives are to produce a manual for application of behavioral highway safety countermeasures and to develop a framework and guidance for estimating the costs and benefits of emerging, experimental, untried, or unproven behavioral highway safety countermeasures. The work is organized into two phases. Phase I includes two deliverables to be completed within 6 months of the contract's execution: (1) an interim manual geared to highway safety professionals, for application of behavioral highway safety countermeasures. The manual should include a matrix documenting the effectiveness, costs, and benefits of existing behavioral highway safety countermeasures (to the extent that these are known) and the implementation issues associated with each; and (2) a user-friendly, executive summary/briefing book version of this information, geared to high-level decision makers. Phase II includes three deliverables: (1) a comprehensive behavioral highway safety manual updated and expanded based on findings from the contractor's scientific evaluations of the costs and benefits of behavioral countermeasures that have not been previously investigated and documented, or for which information is inadequate; (2) an executive summary/briefing book, updated as necessary, based on findings from Phase II; and (3) a framework and guidance for estimating the effectiveness, costs, and benefits of emerging, experimental, untried, or unproven behavioral highway safety countermeasures not previously addressed in this project.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=459

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $600000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 17-33

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

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

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Neissner, Charles

• Performing Organizations:

  Preusser Research Group, Incorporated

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• Principal Investigators:

  Preusser, David

• Start Date: 20050325
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20080630
• Source Data: RiP Project 10646

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Benefit cost analysis; Countermeasures; Crash injuries; Decision making; Fatalities; Highway safety; Research projects
• Identifier Terms: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01460718
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Contract Numbers: Project 17-33
• Files: RiP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:31PM