RSP Module 4: Solving Safety Problems
Effective safety management; that
is, accurately identifying safety problems and developing effective solutions,
is at the core of roadway safety training. This module provides an overview of
the safety management process, and explores some of the decision-making tools
and techniques to evaluate countermeasures and other treatments. The specific
areas covered include data-driven safety management, systemic approaches to
safety management, sources for crash countermeasures, road safety diagnostic
tools, multidisciplinary approaches to road safety, collision patterns and
crash contribution factors, user-focused road safety interventions,
countermeasure cost effectiveness evaluation, countermeasure effectiveness
evaluation, and tradeoff analysis for safety performance.
Learning Objectives
- Identify and describe the steps in a
safety management process that uses effective data-driven procedures and
methods to reduce fatalities and injuries caused by traffic collisions
- Identify and describe a systemwide,
countermeasure-oriented approach
- List reliable sources of
multidisciplinary countermeasures to reduce fatalities and serious injuries
- Describe tools and techniques used to
diagnose safety problems and describe their specific advantages and
disadvantages
- Describe multidisciplinary approaches
that can be used to evaluate and deploy the most effective solutions
- Understand collision patterns and crash
contributing factors
- Describe user-specific interventions
targeted at different populations
- Identify how countermeasure costs and
benefits can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of program and project
investments
- Identify the elements of a countermeasure
evaluation by using data to determine its impact
- Identify techniques for estimating and
comparing the safety performance of different project alternatives
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