Category: Plans

Development of a Tool for Documenting, Tracking, Recording, and Analyzing Improvements to Intersection Sites and Roadway Departures in Curve Locations

  • April 21st, 2015

Report No. FHWA/LA.14/540 The principal objectives and scope of this project were to provide a software tracking tool to improve decision-making for highway safety. A literature search revealed that purchasing and customizing existing software was not feasible and a new solution would be developed in-house. Requirement gathering and analysis were conducted and documented. The application […]

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Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Study Data: Offset Left-Turn Lanes

  • February 21st, 2015

Report S2-S08B-RW-1 The purpose of this research project was to demonstrate one application of the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data, showing how these data can be used to answer a highway safety question and provide guidance for the implementation of safety countermeasures. The specific safety countermeasure evaluated in this project is offset left-turn […]

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FHWA Oversees Bridge Safety

  • February 20th, 2015

Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]

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FHWA Oversees Bridge Safety

  • February 18th, 2015

Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]

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Systematic Safety Improvement Risk Factor Evaluation and Countermeasure Summary

  • November 21st, 2014

Report Number: WBS: 25-1121-0003-140 The majority of crash fatalities in the United States occur along rural roadways. These roadways typically have low volumes and widespread crashes. In other words, no one location generally has an unexpectedly high number of crashes. Systemic safety tools/methodologies can be used in this type of situation because they evaluate and […]

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Two States Suspend New Guardrail Use, Cite Safety Concerns

  • September 26th, 2014

Cindy Galli, ABC News Transportation officials in two states said they are halting the use of a widely-installed guardrail end terminal that was the subject of an ABC News investigation while they further investigate potential safety hazards. “Our internal observations, as well as our review of available information, indicates to us the ET-Plus guardrail end […]

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ALDOT digital message boards, I-65 in Montgomery show drive times

  • September 4th, 2014

Bryan Henry, WSFA 12 News MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) – The Alabama Department of Transportation’s 7 overhead message boards have been installed and now will feature drive times to help with motorists commutes. The high-tech digital boards also display messages ranging from Amber Alerts to weather-related situations. DOT says there will be 7 message boards and […]

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TRB: Roundabouts 2013

  • September 21st, 2013

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2389 consists of seven papers that explore driver yielding behavior to pedestrians; emissions estimation at multilane roundabouts; the safety effects of converting intersections to roundabouts; predictions of capacity for roundabouts; the influence of sight distance on crash rates and operating speeds; roundabout critical headway […]

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Lauderdale to use optical illusion to try to deter speeding

  • September 21st, 2013

Michael Turnbell, Sun Sentinel The latest way to stop speeders in South Florida? Trick them with an optical illusion. The “magic” involves marking a road with hash marks, similar to those on a football field. With the lines spaced at gradually closer intervals, drivers get the illusion they’re going faster than they really are — […]

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Tuscaloosa County Commission considers speed table rule

  • May 4th, 2013

Lydia Seabol Avant, Tuscaloosa News TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa County Commission could soon adopt a policy to regulate where speed tables can be placed. There is no policy or process regulating speed tables in unincorporated areas of Tuscaloosa County. Currently, county commissioners propose placing the tables based on requests from their constituents. The requests then […]

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