Topic: Planning

Rural Transportation Safety and the Strategic Highway Safety Plan: An Examination of Select State Programs and Practices
Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, 2008
This report explores strategic highway safety plans (SHSPs) in Alabama, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont, and Washington.

Towards Performance Dashboards for Integrated Rural Public Health and Transportation Safety Decision Making: A Policy Leader Approach
Center for Excellence in Rural Safety
CERS research director Thomas Horan and research associate Benjamin Schooley plan to conduct a series of “best practices” case studies in states that have deployed decision-support information systems for informing safety policy. Case studies will delve into the specific needs and requirements that policy decision makers would like to see in an electronic performance “dashboard” system. This type of system would include key safety performance measures, data and information types, and visual presentation formats.

AASHTO’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Transportation Research Board
NCHRP-funded Web site containing the Strategic Plan, a self-assessment tool for state DOT’s, Lifelines newsletter, and implementation guides for specific highway safety initiatives.

How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Accident Plan (PDF)
Federal Highway Administration, March 2009
Examines ways to plan for and improve pedestrian safety at the state or local level.

Australian National Road Safety Action Plan, 2009 and 2010 (PDF)
Australian Transport Council, 2008
This safety action plan released by the Australian Transport Council identifies the main issues expected to affect road trauma levels in the foreseeable future and sets out the priority areas for action in 2009 and 2010. Action items are grouped into four broad areas: safer speeds, safer roads and roadsides, safer vehicles, safer road users and safer behavior.

Realized Travel Demand and Relative Desired Mobility of Elderly Women in Rural and Small Urban North Dakota (PDF)
Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, 2007
Discusses transportation challenges that rural elderly women face.

FHWA Road Safety Audit Guidelines
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), 2005
FHWA-SA-06-06
Provides a foundation for public agencies and Tribal Governments in the U.S. to draw upon when developing their own road safety audit policies and procedures and when conducting road safety audits within their jurisdictions.

Roadway Safety Tools for Local Agencies
Transportation Research Board, 2004
NCHRP Synthesis 321
Provides an overview of tools for local governments, including how to develop a Local Safety Improvement Program.

Planning for Transportation in Rural Areas (PDF)
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) & Federal Transit Administration (FTA), 2001
This document is designed as a resource to rural planners, city and county engineers, stakeholders, local officials, and other decision-makers involved with developing rural transportation plans.