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NCHRP Project 17-35 : Evaluation of Safety Strategies at Signalized Intersections

NCHRP Project 17-35 : Evaluation of Safety Strategies at Signalized Intersections. Key Team Members: Raghavan Srinivasan (PI), HSRC Kim Eccles (Co-PI), VHB Persaud and Lyon Inc. Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University. Objectives and Scope.

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NCHRP Project 17-35 : Evaluation of Safety Strategies at Signalized Intersections

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  1. NCHRP Project 17-35: Evaluation of Safety Strategies at Signalized Intersections Key Team Members: Raghavan Srinivasan (PI), HSRC Kim Eccles (Co-PI), VHB Persaud and Lyon Inc. Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University

  2. Objectives and Scope • Complementary to the FHWA Pooled Fund Safety Evaluation project • Develop Accident Modification Factors for selected strategies from Volume 12 of NCHRP Report 500 (strategies at signalized intersections) • Focus on ‘tried’ and ‘experimental’ • Before-after safety effectiveness evaluations • Likely to evaluate 4-5 treatments

  3. Tasks • Task 1: Literature Review • Reviewed ongoing and recently completed studies • Focus on crash based studies • For each study: • Data • Methodology • Develop Accident Modification Factors • Comments and Rating (low, low-medium, medium-high, and high)

  4. Task 2: Survey of Agencies • On-line survey using Zoomerang • Links to the survey: • Part 1: • http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226KF66HVXX • Part 2: • http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226KF6HHW6N

  5. Survey of Agencies, contd. • State DOTs • Selected local agencies • Listservs • Traffic Control Devices • Safety Engineers

  6. Future Tasks • Compile results of Task 2 survey • Follow-up with phone calls to selected agencies • Select possible strategies/treatments • Develop work plan and interim report (Aug 2007) • Meet with NCHRP Panel (Sep/Oct 2007) • After Panel’s approval, start compiling data for evaluating the selected treatments • Project is scheduled to end October 31, 2009

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