Highway Safety Improvement Program Reporting Requirements Web Conference
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FHWA Office of Safety
June 20, 2006
Slide 1
Meeting Agenda
- Welcome and conference operating procedures
- Overview of all 3 reporting requirements
- Reiteration of specific reporting requirements by each lead person followed by questions and answers.
Two ways to participate in the discussion:
- Ask a question during open discussion (press *1).
- Submit your question through the "chat" pod.
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Slide 2
Presenters
- HSIP--Ken Epstein and Leslie Wright
- Highway-Railway Crossings-Guan Xu
- 5% Report-Ed Rice
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Slide 3
General Information
- Guidance on each of the reporting requirements disseminated during April and May
- Guidance now on the Safety Website http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu
- Request for Clearance by the Office of Management and Budget-60-day Federal Register notice published on May 4
- Guidance will be continually monitored and updated as we gain additional experience
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Slide 4
Report Submittal
- Reports are due annually by August 31 to Division Offices, and to the Office of Safety by September 30
- State Options-Three separate reports or one report with three distinct sections
- Electronic submission of reports
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Protection from Discovery and Admission into Evidence
23 U.S.C. §148(g)(4)-Notwithstanding any other provision of law, reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or data compiled or collected for any purposes directly relating to... [the HSIP and 5% Reports]...shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in a Federal or State court proceeding or considered for other purposes in any action for damages arising from any occurrence at a location identified or addressed in such reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or other data
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HSIP Report
- Section 148(g) and Section 152(g)
- Purpose of report -- to assess whether the HSIP is accomplishing its intended purpose to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on public roads
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HSIP Report
Report Contents [Section 148(g)]
- Description of progress being made to implement HSIP projects
- Assessment of the effectiveness of the projects
- Description of the extent to which the HSIP improvements contribute to:
- (a) Reducing fatalities
- (b) Reducing injuries
- (c) Reducing crashes
- (d) Mitigating the consequences of crashes
- (e) Reducing rail-highway crossing crashes
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HSIP Report
The report should also contain:
- Information on the State's High Risk Rural Roads Program
- Relationship of the HSIP projects to the State's SHSP
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Progress in Implementing HSIP Projects
Description of:
- HSIP funds available
- Number and general listing of HSIP projects initiated-how they relate to the State's Strategic Highway Safety Plan
- How projects are chosen for the HSIP
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Improvements
Demonstration of program effectiveness- general information and trends
- Overview of general highway safety trends
- Description of the overall effectiveness of the HSIP
- Summary of the High Risk Rural Roads program effectiveness
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Project Evaluation-How improvements contributed to specific goals
- Addresses requirements from both SAFETEA-LU and Section 152(g)
- Overall purpose-To determine if the project achieved its purpose
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Project Evaluation
Information being requested
- Location/identifier for project
- Type of improvements(s)-Table provided
- Cost of improvement
- "Before" and "After" crash results-Use 3 years of "before" and 3 years of "after" data
- Evaluation results-Benefit/Cost or other methodology
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Reporting on High Risk Rural Roads Program
- HRRR report criteria is included as a section in the HSIP report guidance
- Basic program implementation information
- Methods used to select HRRR
- Detailed information assessing the HRRRP projects
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HRRR Program Implementation
- Based on the most recent completed State FY
- # and type of HRRRP projects initiated
- HRRRP funds available
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HRRR Selection Process
- With a comprehensive statewide crash and roadway data system
- Methodology used
- Data used
- #fatalities, #incapacitating injuries, etc.
- VMT, ADT, lane miles, number of vehicles entering an intersection, etc.
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HRRR Selection Process
- Working towards a comprehensive statewide crash and roadway data system
- Interim Methodology used (data-based)
- Possible interim data used
- #fatalities, #incapacitating injuries of a defined area
- "per capita" data (registered vehicles, licensed drivers, population, etc.)
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HRRR Selection Process
- Techniques used to identify roadways with projected increases in traffic volumes that cause a projected increase in crash rates exceeding the statewide average. [23 U.S.C. §148(a)(1)(B)]
- Steps underway to improve crash and roadway data systems
- considering all public roads
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Assessment of HRRRP Project Effectiveness
- Present/describe evaluation data for projects
- Location/identifier
- Federal functional class of roadway
- Type of improvement
- Cost of improvement
- "Before" and "After" crash results
- Evaluation Results
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Rail-Highway Crossings Report
- Sections 130(g) and 148(g) [SAFETEA-LU Section 1401(d)]
- Purpose of report - to assess whether the program is accomplishing its intended purpose
- Annual report is due by August 31 each year to Division Offices, to Office of Safety by September 30
- Biennial report due to Congress on April 1, 2006 and every 2 years thereafter
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Section 130 Projects
- Purpose: Eliminate hazards of HRGX
- Project types
- Crossing Approach Improvements
- Crossing Warning Sign and Pavement Marking Improvements
- Active Grade Crossing Equipment Installation/Upgrade
- Visibility Improvements
- Roadway Geometry Improvements
- Grade Crossing Elimination
- Crossing Inventory Update
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Rail-Highway Crossings Report - Report Contents
- General Program
- Overall efforts funded by Section 130 including total number of projects and costs
- Status of data acquisition and analysis efforts and expenditures;
- Total number of public crossings within the State, including type of crossing protection;
- Specific program emphasis areas; and
- Assessment of overall Section 130 program effectiveness.
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Rail-Highway Crossings Report - Report Contents
- Project Metrics
- Location of projects;
- USDOT crossing numbers;
- FHWA roadway functional classification;
- Crossing protection (i.e., active, passive);
- Crossing type (e.g., vehicle, pedestrian, etc.);
- Specific project type and description;
- Cost of project;
- Funding types (Section 130 or other);
- Crash data
- Effectiveness of prior year projects.
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Slide 23
Railway-Highway Crossings Project Metrics
23 USC 130
STATE
Notes:
- See FHWA Functional Classification Guidelines at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/processes/statewide/related/functional_classification/fc02.cfm
- Show whether the project achieved its purpose using benefit-cost or other methodology developed by the State. These analyses may include all crashes, or targeted crash types, depending on the nature of the improvement that was implemented.
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Rail-Highway Crossings Report
- States can use up to 2% of their rail-highway crossing funds to compile and analyze data for the reports required under Section 130(g)
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"5% Report"
- Mandated by Section 148(c)(1)(D)
- Is a condition to obligating annual HSIP funds
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"5% Report"
- As part of their Strategic Highway Safety Plans, States must have crash data systems capable of:
- Identifying hazardous locations on all public roads;
- Establishing the relative severity of those locations using criteria deemed appropriate to the State, in terms of crashes, injuries, fatalities, traffic volumes, and other relevant data.
- The purpose of the HSIP is to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on public roads - Section 148(b)(2)
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"5% Report"
- The annual report should then identify not less than 5% of those locations in the State exhibiting the most severe safety needs.
- Purpose - to raise public awareness of the safety needs and challenges in the States
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"5% Report"
- It is recognized that not all States are currently able to identify crash locations on non-State-maintained roads
- Current methodology can be used for the initial report(s)
- The Guidance recommends that States improve their data systems so that full public road coverage can be achieved by 8/31/09
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"5% Report"
- Methodologies used by the States should include fatalities and serious injuries and may be based on one or more of the following:
- Frequencies
- Rates per 100 MVMT
- Rates per million entering vehicles (intersections)
- Rates per mile
- Fatal and serious injury crashes as a % of total crashes
- Crash loss (dollars)
- Other as identified by a State
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"5% Report"
- Number of locations in the report should be:
- Commensurate with the size of the State
- Reflect the locations the State DOT believes have the greatest safety needs in the State to raise public awareness of these needs
- No minimum or maximum number of locations can be recommended at this time
- Some examples are presented in the Guidance
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"5% Report"
- The reports shall also include:
- Potential remedies for the identified locations (in any of the "4E" areas)
- Estimated costs of the remedies
- Impediments to implementation other than cost
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"5% Report"
- It is recommended that the report submissions include:
- The State''s methodology used to determine the locations (will vary among the States)
- Extent of public road coverage
- Schedule for updating crash data system to full coverage (if applicable)
- Calendar years used in the data analyses (most recent
3-5 years of data recommended)
- State contact person and/or office
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"5% Report"
- Sample tabular report format is included in the Guidance
- Reports will be made available to the public on the USDOT web site - Section 148(g)(3)(A)
- Reports must be 508 compliant (any maps used must have a text equivalent)
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"5% Report"
- States have much flexibility in determining their locations with the most severe safety needs - shouldn't compare States' reports
- Most Federal-aid highway funds can be used for crash database and analysis improvements (refer to www.dottrcc.gov/pages/funding.htm)
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Slide 35
Thank You!
