Update on United States Road Assessment Program (usRAP)

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Update on United States Road Assessment Program
(usRAP)

• SCOHTS Meeting
• April 29, 2010

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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
• future - CanRAP

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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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Ongoing Tenets

• Assist, as needed
• Complement and supplement
• Collaborate fully
• Remain sensitive to liability and media issues
• Free

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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 Fatals and Serious Injuries
• Road Protection Score
• Performance Tracking

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usRAP
Phase I Phase II Phase III
RPS Validation Washington, Iowa
Public Awareness Campaigns Utah, Michigan
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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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Current Plans

• Expand Risk Mapping Pilots
• Demonstrate utility of RPS in collaboration with
  NAVTEQ
• Expand Utah RSF outreach project
• Expand collaboration with ISU
• Explore collaboration with CERS
• Raise funds for expansion

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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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Possible Resolutions

• Integrate into state highway safety plans
• Highway safety manual
• Safety analyst
• Promote usRAP RPS
• Explore collaboration with Navteq
• Consider usRAP mapping to generate grass roots
  support for increased investments

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One Death Is Unacceptable, One Death Every
Thirteen Minutes Is An Outrage
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National Rural Summit On Traffic Safety Culture

• Where Big Sky, Montana
• When July 11-13, 2010
• Who Western Transportation Institute, Montana
  State University, Montana DOT, and AAAFTS
• www.ruraltscsummit.org

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

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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
• Validated in Phase III

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Typical Inspection Vehicle

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Hawkeye Processing Toolkit