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NC Local Safety Partnership

NC Local Safety Partnership. Introductions and Workshop Overview. Introductions. Project Team Stan Polanis Daniel Carter David Harkey Dan Gelinne Participants Name Agency Primary interest/concern related to road safety. Why are we here?.

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NC Local Safety Partnership

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  1. NC Local Safety Partnership Introductions and Workshop Overview

  2. Introductions • Project Team • Stan Polanis • Daniel Carter • David Harkey • Dan Gelinne • Participants • Name • Agency • Primary interest/concern related to road safety

  3. Why are we here? Share valuable information about improving road safety Launch partnership between State and Local agencies to address crash problems Provide technical assistance as you develop and implement plans for improving safety

  4. Workshop Roadmap

  5. Workshop Schedule MORNING Introductions Program Background and Overview Crash Data Identifying Potential Treatment Locations

  6. Workshop Schedule AFTERNOON Preparing Collision Diagrams Selecting Interventions Evaluation Methods Program Implementation and Discussion

  7. Logistics and Reminders Sign-in Sheets Handouts Snacks and meals Restrooms Cell phones, computers, tablets

  8. Winston-Salem’s Story

  9. Winston-Salem’s Story Safety and Congestion have been the traffic engineering’s responsibilities ever since the profession started 90 years ago. In the early 1980’s, in Winston-Salem, we reexamined our roles and responsibilities as a traffic engineering agency. We were able to articulate easily and clearly our role with regard to efficiency, but struggled when we talked about safety.

  10. Winston-Salem’s Story • Without any additional budget, we focused on locations where simple changes in existing signs, signals & markings could be effective. Dedicated small amount of staff time to find crash locations that we could treat

  11. Winston-Salem’s Story We committed to evaluating the treatments we deployed, using a simple statistical procedure.

  12. Winston-Salem’s Story As we began to accumulate completed before & after studies, we organized them by targeted crash types and treatments. This information helped us know the likelihood that a particular treatment would be effective.

  13. Winston-Salem’s Story Committed to our City Council to keep 150 locations under study each year, and to provide an annual report. Over 25 years we completed 858 before & after studies. Targeted crashes were reduced by 51% . A reduction of more than 4,400 crashes over 25 years.

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