Summary: | THIS IS A FINAL PILOT TEST OF THIS NEW COURSE. This training course provides a description of safety effectiveness evaluation, an overview of fundamentals needed to perform safety effectiveness evaluation, and information about why safety effectiveness evaluation is important to a Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). Examples of project evaluation methodologies that account for regression-to-the-mean are discussed and participants are given an opportunity to calculate simple observational before-after studies, observational before-after studies with Empirical Bayes adjustment, and observational before after studies using comparison groups.
23 U.S.C. Section 148 (g) under SAFETEA-LU requires states to report annually progress being made to implement highway safety improvement projects and assess the effectiveness of those improvements.
The pilot test will be conducted between September 12 and 23. The course includes a total of 8 modules: 6 on-line, self-paced modules and 2 instructor-led, web-conference training sessions. The maximum, estimated level of participation is six hours.
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Learning Outcomes: | Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Identify the role of project evaluation in the HSIP;
• Recognize data needs of each project evaluation methodology;
• Conduct project evaluation using each methodology;
• Describe how project evaluation supports the development of crash modification factors; and
• Explain how project evaluation results can benefit the planning process.
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Teaching Method: | This course combines self-paced, online learning with instructor-led, web conferences.
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Target Audience: | PennDOT’s ADEs-Design, ADEs-Maintenance, District Traffic Engineers, District Highway Safety Engineers and Project Managers. The intended audience for this course is planners and engineers who evaluate the safety impact of projects on crash frequency and severity and those conducting technical analysis to support HSIP project and program evaluation.
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Final Exam: | Yes |
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