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Safety Management Safety management is a systematic process that can help States reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes through highway safety improvement programs. The process provides ways for planning, implementing, and evaluating safety programs and projects. Through safety management, all opportunities to improve highway safety are identified, considered, implemented as appropriate, and evaluated in all phases of highway planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operations. The procedural guides on this CD show how to develop a highway safety improvement program, how to conduct highway safety engineering studies, and how to conduct highway safety evaluations. Other publications present information about different safety data-collection technologies and the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for safety analysis. GIS safety-analysis techniques are tools to analyze and manipulate safety data in a spatial environment. The data-collection technologies include mobile computers, global positioning systems, expert systems, bar-code readers, GIS, and others. The National Model is a partnership of FHWA, Iowa, and others to demonstrate the successful integration of technologies for data collection, management, and communication of safety information. The National Model was recently recognized by Vice President Gore with a National Partnership for Reinventing Government Hammer Award. The objectives of the National Model are to improve data acquisition for roadway incidents, leverage proven technology for law enforcement, streamline the communication of safety information to key stakeholders, and enhance the use of this information for safety programs. New approaches are being used to shorten data-collection time, minimize disruption to traffic, increase officer safety and efficiency, and improve data quality. Safety Management Publications: Evaluation of Highway Safety Projects Expert Systems for Crash Data Collection: Final Report GIS-Based Crash Referencing and Analysis System Highway Safety Evaluation: Procedural Guide Highway Safety Improvement Program Investigation of National Highway System Roadways in the HSIS States National Model: Statewide Application of Data Collection and Management Technology to Improve Highway Safety Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing Handbook Traffic Conflict Techniques for Safety and Operations: Observation Manual Using GIS in the Analysis of Truck Crashes |
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