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• About this e‑Guidebook
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Audience and Purpose
  • 2.1 Who Should Use this Guidebook?
  • 2.2 Why the Guidebook is a Useful Tool?
  • 2.3 Guidebook Components
• 3. Planning Processes
  • 3.1 The Transportation Planning Process
  • 3.2 The Strategic Highway Safety Planning Process
  • 3.3 Integrating Safety during the Transportation Planning Process
• 4. Getting Started
  • 4.1 Institutional Considerations
  • 4.2 Common Types of Safety Data and Application to Planning Processes
  • 4.3 Data Quality
  • 4.4 Obtaining Safety Data
• 5. Using Safety Analyses
  • 5.1 Benchmarking
  • 5.2 Identify Crash Trends and Contributing Factors
  • 5.3 Identify and Evaluate Focus Crash Types
  • 5.4 Network Screening—Identify Sites for Safety Improvements
  • 5.5 Systemic Analysis—Identify Safety Risk Factors
  • 5.6 Corridor and Intersection Planning Safety Analysis
• 6. Applying Safety Data and Analysis
  • 6.1 Institutional Considerations
  • 6.2 Using Safety Data and Analysis to Develop Goals and Objectives
  • 6.3 Using Safety Data and Analysis to Develop Performance Measures and Targets
  • 6.4 Using Safety Data and Analysis for Project Prioritization and Programming
• 7. Conclusions
• Appendices
  • Appendix A. Tools and Resources
  • Appendix B. Safety Analysis Objectives and Methods
  • Appendix C. Risk Ratio
  • Appendix D. Regression to the Mean

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