Thank You Abigail !!!
Every Source Helps
Dennis Marrotte
On Jan 22, 2019 11:03 AM, "Agy Wilson" <agywilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you Abigail! Will take a look at it today!
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:55 AM Abigail Cioffi <
abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I haven't looked into all these links, but from the descriptions, looks
like there might be some good resources for WSMAC in the email below!
-Abigail
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Subject: Safety tools and resources you can use ...
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:00:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Kelly Rodgers, Executive Director of Streetsmart
<kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Evidence and insight for better transportation
Now monthly! Streetsmart News. Vol. 9, 2019
Evidence and Insight for Better Transportation
Tools for Safety
Those working in the field of transportation may be familiar with the FHWA’s
Proven Safety Countermeasures
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In 2008, the Federal Highways Administration began promoting certain
infrastructure-oriented safety treatments and strategies that were chosen
based on proven effectiveness and benefits. They are organized into three
categories: road departures, intersections, and pedestrians/bicyclists as
well as a crosscutting category that addresses all the above focus areas.
Several of these strategies offer co-benefits of increasing physical
activity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—as a result, we will include
them the beta version of Streetsmart.
A related tool is the Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse
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that is funded by FHWA and maintained by the University of North Carolina
Highway Safety Research Center. A crash modification factor (CMF) is a
generic measure of how much a roadway treatment increases or decreases
crashes after installation. Specifically, the numeric value of the CMF is
the percentage of crashes that would still happen with a particular
roadway treatment installed, such that 0.95 is not as great an improvement
as 0.5. Any given safety countermeasure may have multiple CMFs depending on
its site-specific context.
Finally, the International Road Assessment Programme
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(iRAP) has several tools for evaluating the safety of roads around the
world. Safer Road Investment Plans
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include over 90 safety road improvement options that will improve a road's
safety rating. Star Ratings
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are based on road inspection data and provide an objective measure of the
level of safety that is ‘built-in’ to the road for vehicle occupants,
motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians. These can be completed without
detailed crash data, which is often unavailable. A U.S. version, usRAP
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is sponsored by the Road Safety Foundation and builds on the work of iRAP
and similar regional efforts in Europe and Australia.
For those working toward zero road deaths—not just reducing serious
injuries and fatalities, but eliminating them—the Vision Zero Toolbox
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created by the Institute of Transportation Engineers
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and the Vision Zero Network
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is a great place to look for resources.
h/t to board member Dr. Steven Lavrenz
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for a description of CMFs and alerting us to iRAP
Safety Updates from the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
From the Pedestrian and Bicycle Standing Committees at the Transportation
Research Board (TRB) came this update about research project NCHRP 17-84
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to develop pedestrian and bicycle safety performance functions (SPFs) to
better inform planning, design, and operations decisions. Safety
performance functions are mathematical equations that relate the number of
crashes of different types to site characteristics, much like a crash
modification factor. The results from this research effort will be used to
update the Highway Safety Manual with regard to how it evaluates safety for
pedestrians and bicyclists.
The first task of NCHRP 17-84 is to develop pedestrian and bicycle SPFs
using existing exposure data—much of it from research on safety
countermeasures, such as the CMF Clearinghouse. The second task is to
develop an alternative risk-based approach using iRAP which predicts
fatalities and serious injuries. The Highway Safety Manual and associated
tools will be updated based on one or both approaches.
Another update heard at TRB is that the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
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(NHTSA) has recently produced the 9th edition of Countermeasures that
Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasures Guide for State Highway Safety
Offices
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. NHTSA is also working on research related to the “safety in numbers”
concept that suggests that the more pedestrians and bicyclists are out on
the streets, the lower the risk for any individual pedestrian or bicyclist.
Look for it this summer. Another study underway is on the impact of bicycle
safety laws, due this fall.
Our proof-of-concept prototype can be found below. Take the survey to
give us feedback that we will use to shape the beta version of Streetsmart,
coming soon!
EXPLORE OUR SITE
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Recommendations for Integrating Health into Transportation
We asked and you answered: how can health be better integrated into
transportation? Thanks to all the participants in Streetsmart’s focus
groups for sharing their challenges and lessons learned. We’ve taken
feedback from the focus group and written two related articles about what
we found. The first can be found in the December edition
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of the ITE Journal (p. 10) and the second on the online blog of Meeting
of the Minds
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.
If you are interested in this question, watch for a report coming out
from the Transportation Association of Canada
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about this very topic. Due this spring, Strategic Opportunities for
Integrating Health and Transportation
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identifies
seven key “integration factors” where health and transportation intersect
and provides integration recommendations.
Request for People-First Mobility Case Studies
The Partnership for Active Transportation
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has
developed five human-centered mobility principles
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to
guide their work and encourage other organizations and communities to shape
mobility and community design choices facing our society by putting people
and places first. The five principles are: safety, streets as public space,
public engagement and equity, data, and affordability.
Has your community already adopted aspects of people-first mobility? The
Partnership wants to hear from you! Fill out the google form
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or
email the same information to patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and they’ll
feature your community.
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