# Presentation: 120624

## Low-Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study 

***FUTURE DIRECTION***
- Annual TAC Meeting,2007
- Roya Amjadi
- FHWA, Turner-Fairbank Research Center

**Notes:**
Cover page pictures. Picture shows series of three scenarios: a vehicle on a meandering road, safety personnel at work, and a car that is very badly damaged after it appears to have collided into a telephone pole.  

## Objective One

- 	**First**: Phase III of the Low-Cost Pooled Fund Study (PFS) need to be discussed for two categories of strategies;
- Leading strategies that were selected from Phases I and II and have potential to be evaluated in this phase
- Strategies listed from the next selected series of NCHRP 500 volumes

## Objective Two

- 	**Second: **Select strategies that meet following criteria;
- Hold most interest for the State DOTs, AND
- Strategies may have been built in several locations with available Before/After data (retrospective), OR
- Strategies may be studied in simulation Labs, OR
- Strategies will be built by the State DOTs for evaluation (prospective).

## What Tool Do We Need ?

- 	Recalling what was discussed Yesterday and Today;
- Phase I & II, strategies 1-8, and types of the evaluations (Before/After, retrospective),
- Phase IV, strategies 9-17, and types of the evaluations (simulations), and
- Information gained through the yesterday’s tour and discussion on Phase IV.

## Warming UP for Phase IIIIn Two Steps

- 	Due to limited time, please have in mind that we _DO NOT_ have to decide all the strategies today.
- 	Only strategies with high ranks and feasibility will be considered.
- 	*The longer list will be e-mailed to you, we will communicate, and refine our selections later.*

##  1- Strategies selected in Phases I and II  Discussion and Balloting 

-  Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) members may:
- Provide technical information/updates, and exchange ideas on various listed strategies for (15 minutes)
- Select and rank listed strategies on their appropriate balloting forms (5 minutes)

##  2- Strategies in NCHRP 500 Series Discussion and Balloting 

- Technical Advisory Committee TAC members may:
- Provide technical information/updates, and exchange ideas on various listed strategies for (15 min.)
- Select and rank listed strategies on their appropriate balloting forms (5 min.)
- Ballots will be collected at end of the hour.

## Strategies selected in Phases I and II

- Alternating passing lanes or four-lane sections at key locations to prevent Head On crashes (I-R5)
- Median barriers for narrow-width medians on multilane roads to prevent Head On crashes (I-R7)
- Install profiled thermoplastic strips for centerlines (I-R11)
- Narrow “buffer median” on two lane roadways (I-R12)
- Increase size and letter height of roadway signs (II-R7)
- Provide adequate sight distance (II-R10)

## Strategies in NCHRP 500 Series

- A Guide for Reducing Collisions Involving Heavy Trucks (V13)
- A Guide for Reducing Alcohol-Related Collisions (V16)
- A Guide for Reducing Crashes Involving Drowsy and Distracted Drivers (V14)
- A Guide for Enhancing Rural Emergency Medical Services (V15)

## A Guide for Reducing Collisions Involving Heavy Trucks, V13

- Identify and treat truck crash roadway segments signing
- Install interactive truck rollover signing
- Promulgate Share the Road information through print and electronic media
- Increase and strengthen truck maintenance programs and inspection performance

## A Guide for Reducing Collisions Involving Heavy Trucks, V13 Continued

- Perform safety consultations with carrier safety management
- Promote development and deployment of truck safety technologies
- Increase efficiency of use of existing parking spaces
- Create additional parking spaces
- Modify speed limits and increase enforcement to reduce truck and other vehicle speeds

## A Guide for Reducing Alcohol-Related Collisions (V16)

- Conduct Regular Well-Publicized DWI Checkpoints
- Enhance DWI Detection Through Special DWI Patrols and Related Traffic Enforcement

## A Guide for Reducing Crashes Involving Drowsy and Distracted Drivers (V14)

- Implement other roadway improvements to reduce the likelihood and severity of run-off-road and/or head-on collisions
- Implement roadway improvements to reduce the likelihood and severity of other types of distracted and drowsy driving crashes

## A Guide for Enhancing Rural Emergency Medical Services (V15)

- Integrate information systems and highway safety activities
- Integrate EMS systems into the Safe Communities effort
- Identify and evaluate model rural EMS operations

## Items forFuture Communications

- We need to exchange information for;
- Review and discussion of various NCHRP-500 (V13, 14, 15, and16) strategies in detail for feasibility,
- Providing data as objective measures of importance for strategies when possible,
- Refining the list for specific strategies that hold most interests to DOTs,

## Items forFuture Communications

- Existing sites with implemented strategies,
- Available Before/After data,
- States interests in building and studying strategies,
- New feasible ideas, and
- Related issues.

## Any Questions?

***Thank you ***
***for your time and cooperation***