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FHWA has a number of resources on its website related to the development and implementation of LRSPs including:
Countermeasures That Work is a basic reference to assist SHSOs in selecting effective, evidence-based countermeasures for nine traffic safety problem areas.
Developing Safety Plans: A Manual for Local Rural Road Owners, FHWA, provides guidance on the development of LRSPs.
Good Practices: Incorporating Safety into Resurfacing and Restoration Projects, FHWA, provides information on institutional practices that integrate safety into resurfacing and restoration projects.
Highway Safety Grant Programs, provides additional information on behavioral safety funding available from NHTSA.
Highway Safety Improvement Program, FHWA, is a core Federal-aid program to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.
Highway Safety Manual, is the guidance document for incorporating quantitative safety analysis in the highway transportation project planning and development processes.
Highway Statistics, 2018, FHWA, is an annual report that contains analyzed statistical information on motor fuel, motor vehicle registrations, driver licenses, highway user taxation, highway mileage, travel, and highway finance.
Local Agency Funding Guide for the Off-System Roadway, Florida DOT, District 7, provides targeted information on roadway safety, and a step-by-step process to assess and improve the safety of the local road networks.
Local Roadway Safety A Manual for California’s Local Road Owners, Caltrans, is designed to help maximize the safety benefits for local roadways by encouraging all local agencies to identify and analyze their safety issues and to position themselves to compete effectively in call-for-projects.
Network Screening is the process of studying safety conditions on all of a road network or a subset of the network using the same method at each location so that the results can be compared and prioritized. Other information on network screening is available in the HSIP Manual and a Network Screening Quick Start Guide.
Proven Countermeasures, FHWA, is a list of 20 treatments and strategies that practitioners can implement to successfully address roadway departure, intersection, pedestrian and bicycle crashes.
Rural/Urban Comparison of Traffic Fatalities, Traffic Safety Facts, NHTSA, is an annual report that presents descriptive statistics about traffic crashes of all severities in rural and urban areas.
State Highway Safety Offices, is a listing of each state’s Highway Safety Office.
Systemic Approach to Safety involves widely implemented improvements based on high-risk roadway features correlated with specific severe crash types.
Transportation Alternatives Program, FHWA, are set-aside funds for projects related pedestrian and bicycle facilities, recreational trails, safe routes to school projects, community improvements, historic preservation, vegetation management, and environmental mitigation.
Tribal Safety Plans, provides links to Transportation Safety Plans developed by Tribal Governments to share these Transportation Safety Plans.
Information for this report was gathered from the following sources:
17 FHWA Office of Safety, Local and Rural Road Safety Program. [Return to footnote 17]
18 FHWA, Office of Safety, Assessment of Local Road Safety Funding, Training and Technical Assistance. [Return to footnote 18]
19 FHWA, Office of Safety, Addressing Safety on Locally-Owned and Maintained Roads, A Domestic Scan. [Return to footnote 19]
20 FHWA, Office of Safety, Noteworthy Practices Database. [Return to footnote 20]
21 TRB, TRID the TRIS and ITRD database. [Return to footnote 21]
22 TRB, NCHRP. [Return to footnote 22]
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