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The Highway Safety Manual – How Metropolitan and Statewide Planners Can Benefit from this Tool

  • July 9th, 2012

Since the 1950s transportation professionals have been able to quantitatively assess project alternatives based on mobility, and more recently in terms of environmental impact. Limited means have existed to assess the safety performance of different design alternatives. To help address that gap, the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) was published by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), culminating ten years of research and development […]

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They’re Working: Insurance Claims Data Show Which New Technologies are Preventing Crashes

  • July 3rd, 2012

An early crop of advanced crash avoidance technologies includes some clear success stories when it comes to preventing crashes, insurance claim analyses show. Forward collision avoidance systems, particularly those that can brake autonomously, along with adaptive headlights, which shift direction as the driver steers, show the biggest crash reductions in the studies by the Highway […]

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Preparing Florida for Deployment of Safety Analyst

  • June 18th, 2012

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that examines efforts to employ SafetyAnalyst, a new tool that may help states determine system-wide safety-based design decisions by incorporating steps from the roadway safety management process. SafetyAnalyst was developed as a cooperative effort by the Federal Highway Administration and participating state and local agencies.

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Enhanced Interchange Safety Analysis Tool: User Manual

  • May 31st, 2012

This user manual provides guidance for the use of the Enhanced Interchange Safety Analysis Tool (ISATe). This tool can be used to evaluate freeway and interchange safety. The algorithms and equations used in ISATe are implemented in a Microsoft ® Excel ® workbook as software (using the Visual-Basicfor-Applications programming language). The user manual consists of three chapters. The […]

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Integrating the HSM into the Highway Project Development Process

  • May 1st, 2012

This guide provides examples of opportunities for integrating the AASHTO Highway Safety Manual into the project development process. This includes integrating methods from the Highway Safety Manual into planning, alternatives development and analysis, design, operations, and maintenance. The guide provides a description of each of these steps in the project development process, and then provides a discussion of the […]

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Gasoline Prices and Traffic Crashes in Alabama, 1999–2009

  • April 12th, 2012

Guangqing Chi, Timothy E. McClure, & David B. Brown Objective: The price of gasoline has been found to be negatively associated with traffic crashes in a limited number of studies. However, most of the studies have focused either on fatal crashes only or on all crashes but measured over a very short time period. In […]

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Alabama State Troopers Start Operation 10-Mile

  • March 29th, 2012

As the weather warms and schools break for spring and summer, traffic swells along Alabama’s most popular highways, often resulting in more crashes, injuries, and fatalities. This year, the Alabama Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement agencies across the state say they’ll be out in full force along some of the state’s busiest […]

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Gasoline Prices and Traffic Crashes in Alabama, 1999–2009

  • March 27th, 2012

The price of gasoline has been found to be negatively associated with traffic crashes in a limited number of studies. However, most of the studies have focused either on fatal crashes only or on all crashes but measured over a very short time period. In this study, we examine gasoline price effects on all traffic […]

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Construction crew hit in fatal I-85 crash

  • February 27th, 2012

AUBURN, AL (WSFA) – A single-vehicle crash is responsible for the death of one person and the injuries of two others along Interstate 85. The crash happened near the 48 mile marker just outside of Auburn around 10:00am Monday.

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