Production of the First Edition of the Highway Safety Manual

An extensive and ground-breaking initiative is underway to develop a Highway Safety Manual (HSM). Development of the HSM was initiated by a Transportation Research Board Joint Subcommittee (now Task Force) and supported by 6 NCHRP projects totaling more than $3 million. The HSM will focus on knowledge and tools relevant to the safety profession and will quantify the safety effects of decisions in planning, design, operations, and maintenance. It will serve a role for safety analysis similar to that which the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) serves for traffic operational analysis. The HSM will target practitioners on the front-line of daily decision making within state highway agencies, as well as local organizations such as municipal agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. The objective of this project is to prepare the first edition of the HSM in a form ready for publication in both printed and electronic format.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=462

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $1067034.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 17-36

• 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:

  Niessner, Charles

• Performing Organizations:

  Kittelson and Associates, Incorporated

  610 S.W. Alder Street
  Portland, OR  United States  97205
• Principal Investigators:

  Zegeer, John

• Start Date: 20060619
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20100228
• Source Data: RiP Project 11114

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Design; Highway safety; Maintenance; Manuals; Metropolitan planning organizations; Operations; Planning; Research projects; State highway departments
• Identifier Terms: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01463013
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Contract Numbers: Project 17-36
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:14PM