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Accelerating Highway Safety Solutions: AASHTO Research Committee Update

Update from AASHTO Research Committee on Highway Safety with details on research progress, safety highlights, renewal and capacity initiatives, implementation preparations, and coordination staff. Learn more about the latest advancements in highway safety.

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Accelerating Highway Safety Solutions: AASHTO Research Committee Update

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  1. Accelerating solutions for highway safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity Update AASHTO Standing Committee on Research July 26, 2011

  2. Overall Status • ~100 contracts; 20 complete; 70 active; a few yet to be awarded • 313 separate research entities involved • SAFETY-LU extension added $47.8 million; additional funds with FHWA • Extended cooperative agreement with FHWA to March 2015 • Increasing focus on preparing for implementation

  3. Safety Highlights • Naturalistic driving study in place in all 6 sites: NY, PA, IN, FL, NC, WA • 650+ vehicles on the road • Data coming in: 40,000+ trip files • 2 minor crashes • Roadway data collection to begin this fall: Fugro Roadway • First analysis projects later this year • Data sharing policies, procedures, website

  4. Behind the scenes … • 2-year design process • 1-year site contractor ID process • Manufacture of 2500 custom-designed data acquisition systems • Review/approval by 8 (now 6) ethics boards • Outfitting the sites (leases, hiring, security, IT, equipment, training, site inspections) • 11 custom software to support & installation; custom hardware to support installation • Site support & coordination; trouble-shooting

  5. Example Uses of NDS Data • Improve roadway geometry, signing, markings • Improve design of vehicles and in-vehicle devices, warning systems, etc. • Improve driver education for teens • Develop assistance for older drivers • Data-based laws regarding use of hand-held devices (by teens, truckers, all drivers) • Planning, highway operations, fuel efficiency, environmental effects

  6. Renewal Highlights • TRB’s 1st e-book: DOT-RR project agreement strategies • Web-based tools: geotech designs; choosing utility location technologies • Demos: IA-replace bridge in 2 weeks; NY-replace bridge over weekend • Risk workshops, real-time PCC smoothness measurement, composite pavements, NDT technologies, performance specs for rapid renewal, use existing pavements in place

  7. More Examples of Products • Modular and composite pavements • Risk manual for innovative contracting • Integrating utility and DOT priorities • Railroad-DOT mitigation strategies • Reducing personnel fatigue • Innovative project management • Performance and incentive specs • Corridor/network planning for renewal

  8. Reliability Highlights • Foundational projects: definitions, measurement, monitoring, training, institutional change/practices • Strategic implementation planning workshop • Archive for reliability data • “Capstone” project: framework for improving reliability, integrates all results

  9. Capacity Highlights • TCAPPS: for collaborative decision making • TPICS: for economic impact analysis • Performance measurement • All available in as a web-based tool (beta version) • Adding: GHG, smart growth, private sector involvement

  10. Capacity: Pilots • Advanced travel demand models: state and local agencies in Jacksonville, FL, and Sacramento, CA • Collaborative decision making tool: CO, WA, MN • Green house gas workshops: MA, MN, CO, WA • Pilots of ecological tools: CA, CO, OR, WV • Strategic plan for freight: global freight research consortium; modeling/data symposium and innovation award

  11. Preparing for Implementation • TCCs developed plans • FHWA, AASHTO, NHTSA reviewing, coordinating • Steering group: TRB, FHWA, AASHTO, NHTSA • May 10-11 workshop: cross-cutting implementation issues

  12. Implementation Coordination Staff • Jim McMinimee, AASHTO • Joe Conway, Ken Jacoby, FHWA • Tim Johnson, NHTSA • Jerry DiMaggio, SHRP 2

  13. Thank You For more information, see SHRP 2 website: www.trb.org/shrp2 For presentations from 6th safety symposium: http://www.trb.org/StrategicHighwayResearchProgram2SHRP2/Pages/Sixth_SHRP_2_Safety_Research_Symposium_498.aspx For recent press on NDS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalacademyofsciences/sets/72157627069940789/ http://blogs.forbes.com/tanyamohn/2011/07/15/crash-study-seeks-participants-in-effort-to-save-lives/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=study-will-watch-drivers-watch-the-11-07-17 For beta version of TCAPP’s web tools: http://www.transportationforcommunities.com/

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