Research

Road Improvement

Alabama cities and the state as a whole are continually making road improvements. Many of these programs are influenced by the Cost-benefit Optimization for Reduction of Roadway Environment Caused Tragedies or CORRECT system.

CORRECT recognizes that location decisions cannot be made without total system considerations. It provides a work-flow model so that a uniform approach toward critical crash location investigation can take place by a number of teams working simultaneously across the system.

Toward Zero Deaths

U.S. traffic safety professionals began the dialogue toward creating a national strategic highway safety plan in 2009 which evolved into Toward Zero Deaths, a national highway safety strategy that has been adopted by more than 40 states.

Achieving zero is not a solitary task; it takes an army of traffic safety professionals from the four E’s – engineering, education, enforcement, emergency services – along with individuals from many other disciplines in the public and private sector to prevent crashes and save lives.

eCrash

eCrash is an electronic traffic crash reporting and transmission procedure system. It provides the necessary tools for officers to prepare a crash form including both crash location functionality and crash diagram support. A full suite of administrative tools is available through MOVE to support the needed backend processing of crash forms and the approval and archiving of the crash data.

Mobile Officer Virtual Environment (MOVE)

MOVE was developed for officers to use on laptops in their cars, not on a desktop in the office. It was designed to combine the officer’s critical software tools onto one screen and for them to work together seamlessly.

MOVE is a software framework that integrates several software applications and peripherals, including eCite and eCrash.

Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM)/Highway Safety Manual (HSM)

The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of software analysis tools for evaluating safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways. IHSDM results support decision making in the highway design process. Intended users include highway project managers, designers, and traffic and safety reviewers in State and local highway agencies and engineering consulting firms.

The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) introduces a science-based technical approach that takes the guesswork out of safety analysis. The HSM provides tools to conduct quantitative safety analyses, allowing for safety to be quantitatively evaluated alongside other transportation performance measures such as traffic operations, environmental impacts, and construction costs.