Safety Performance Metrics for Decision Making

In this research, a supplementary metric or metrics will be developed to assess the speed related component of safety and relate this to design elements and the roadway context, enabling Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to identify high-risk areas as well as treatments associated with high association between design speed and operating speed. Roadway speed measures may include average operating speed, operating speed distributions, speed variability measures (e.g. average minus ninety-fifth percentile), difference between posted and operating speeds, etc.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $275000
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Georgia Department of Transportation

  One Georgia Center
  600 West Peachtree Street, NW
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30308
• Project Managers:

  Roney, Brennan

• Performing Organizations:

  Georgia Tech Research Corporation

  505 Tenth Street
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332-0420
• Principal Investigators:

  Watkins, Kari

• Start Date: 20181107
• Expected Completion Date: 20201107
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Design speed; High risk locations; Highway safety; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Operating speed; Performance measurement
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01702269
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Georgia Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 19 2019 2:57PM