Summary: | The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) presents tools and methodologies for consideration of “safety” across the range of highway activities that includes; planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals. It serves as the single national resource for quantitative information about crash analysis and evaluation and provides transportation professionals with current knowledge, techniques, and methodologies to estimate future crash frequency and severity and to identify and evaluate options to reduce crash frequency and severity.
This workshop provides a brief overview of Part A (Human Factors and Fundamentals of the HSM), Part C (Crash Prediction Methodology) and Part D (Crash Modification Factors), but the majority of the course content focuses on Part B of the HSM (Roadway Safety Management Process) which includes:
• Network Screening
• Crash Diagnosis
• Selecting Safety Countermeasures
• Economic Appraisals
• Prioritizing Projects
• Safety Effectiveness Evaluation
Information and procedures for each of the above topics are discussed in detail to provide the participants with a firm understanding of the available methods for monitoring and reducing crash frequency on existing roadway networks.
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Learning Outcomes: | The outcomes/objectives of the course is to enable participants to recognize and identify potential applications of the HSM within the project development process. This would include, but not limited to, the following:
• Gain awareness of sites that could benefit from safety treatments to reduce crash frequency or severity;
• Understand crash patterns and countermeasure(s) most likely to reduce crash frequency at a site;
• Estimate the economic benefit associated with a particular treatment, or set of treatments;
• Develop an optimized list of projects to improve; and
• Assess the effectiveness of a countermeasure to reduce crash frequency and/or severity.
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Prerequisites: | No prerequisites are required, however an understanding of the HSM Crash Prediction Methodology would be beneficial.
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Target Audience: | Persons involved with evaluating roadway networks/corridors to identify and address safety concerns during Project Development.
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Final Exam: | Yes |
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