Update on United States Road Assessment Program usRAP

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Update on United States Road Assessment Program
(usRAP)

• SCOHTS Meeting
• May 1, 2009

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RESEARCH PLANS
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Safer drivers in safer vehicles on safer roads
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Road Assessment Programs

• 2000 - EuroRAP
• 2003 - AusRAP
• 2004 - usRAP
• 2005 - iRAP
• 2008 - CanRAP

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usRAP Background

• Unacceptably high socio-economic toll from
  traffic crashes
• Culture of complacency
• Under-investment in safety
• No national system to assess road safety exists
• Politics vs. evidence-based decisions
• Little transparency

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usRAP Objectives

• Benchmark safety of road segments
• Allocate resources based on risks
• Infrastructure
• Enforcement
• Inform and provide guidance to motorists
• Foster Collaboration

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usRAP Pilot States
Phase I Phase II Phase III
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• Research Team
• Midwest Research Institute
• Iowa State University

• usRAP Advisory Panel
• AASHTO
• AHUA RSF
• ATSSA
• Auto Clubs
• FHWA
• ITE
• NACE
• Local/State Highway Agencies

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usRAP Protocols

• Risk Mapping
• Road Protection Score
• Performance Tracking

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Specialty Maps
Core Maps

• Intersections
• Older drivers
• Novice drivers
• Alcohol
• Speed

• Crash density
• Crash rate
• Crash rate ratio
• Potential crash savings

Fatals and Serious Injuries
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Risk Map-West of Orlando
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Star Ratings based on Road Protection Score

• Provide star ratings based on safety features of
  specific sites
• Crash Likelihood
• Crash protection
• Can supplement and explain risk maps
• Useful when crash data are limited
• Identifies countermeasure options

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Star Ratings based on Road Protection Score

• Star rating based on features related to
• head-on crashes
• run-off-road crashes
• intersection crashes
• Pilot tested in Phase I
• Completing validation

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Typical Inspection Vehicle

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Hawkeye Processing Toolkit
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Navteq Collaboration

• Navteq will provide video-logs
• Joint project to reduce data and produce RPS maps
• Navteq In vehicle navigation
• AAAFTS Free maps countermeasure options to
  public agencies
• AAA Triptiks

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Outreach Projects

• Utah
• Multi-media campaign in collaboration with RSF
  UDOT
• Can a Public Information Education program
  increase public support for road safety
  investments?
• usRAP maps used to explain risks
• Genesse County
• Town hall meetings
• Gauge consumer feedback on usRAP maps
• Discuss road safety efforts

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Applications of usRAP

• Highway safety improvement plans
• Performance metrics
• 5 reports
• High risk rural road grants
• Guide resource allocation
• Infrastructure
• Enforcement
• Support asset management

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One Death Is Unacceptable, One Death Every
Thirteen Minutes Is An Outrage
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• Compendium and synthesis available
• Ignited new national dialogue on issue
• National survey of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes
  and behaviors

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In- House Projects
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National Rural Summit On Traffic Safety Culture

• Where Big Sky, Montana
• When Monday June 22, 2009
• Who Western Transportation Institute, Montana
  State University, Montana DOT, and AAAFTS
• Why Discuss role of Traffic Safety Culture in
  our society
• http//www.meetingsnorthwest.com/TSCsummit.html

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• For more information, go to
• AAAFoundation.org
• www.usrap.us