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All Roads Transportation Safety
Roadway Departure Crash- 2013
(Formerly Jurisdictionally Blind Safety)
Overview
• Background
• Background of Safety Program and how we got here
• Framework
• Framework of proposed program – get input
• Questions
• Questions about how we get there, who delivers the projects, how do we choose what to fund, how are other decisions made and who makes them – get input
Context
• 1700+ people (fatalities or serious injuries) per year in Oregon
• 4+ people per day
Goals of the Safety Program
• Reduce fatalities and serious injuries
• Consistent Strategic Highway Safety Plan
• Use a data-driven approach
• Blind to jurisdiction – Fair and unbiased
• Address safety on all public roads
Oregon FA (Fatal + Serious Injury Crashes) 2009-2011
213648%
120827%
110625%
State Highways
Urban Non-state
Rural Non-state
• About 1000 of the rural FA crashes are on 26,000* miles of County Roads
• About 120 or so non-state FA crashes are on 30,000* miles of tribal lands, BLM, Forest Service, local access and other roads
• About 1200 of the urban FA crashes are on 10,000* miles of City Streets
2100+ FA crashes are on 8000* miles of State Highways
*About 74,000 total public miles
Safety in Oregon
Safety in Oregon
State Highways
Cities Counties Other0
5
10
15
20
25
30
F&A Crashes per 100 miles1 every 4 miles
1 every 9 miles
1 every 33 miles
1 every 59 miles
In the Transition We:We set aside $16 million for local roads safety:
• Engaged local jurisdictions on selection of
countermeasures
• Focused on a few systemic strategies
• Developed priority list of potential projects (300% list)
In the Transition We are:• Regions are moving towards scoping 70-90% of $ on list
• Beginning to engage local jurisdictions to agree on scope
• Will be beginning the design process early next year
• Looking into a public interest finding with FHWA for
allowing local jurisdictions to install curve signing
All Roads Transportation Safety Program• Funding for program starts in 2017
• Includes All Public Roads
• Develop a fair and unbiased selection process
• before July of 2014 (in time for 2017-2020 STIP process)
• Mix of both systemic and hot spot Funding
All Roads Transportation Safety Program
HSIP funds (Proposed for 2017-2020) Per year
Hot Spot (Traditional) $18 million
Systemic Roadway Departure $9 million
Systemic Intersections $4 million
Systemic Ped/Bike $4million
Traditional vs. Systemic
• The traditional approach to safety is to identify “hot spot” locations, then try to identify measures to implement.
• The systemic approach identifies a few proven low-cost measures to be implemented where they would be most useful
• The systemic approach and comprehensive complements the traditional approach
Traditional Systemic Comprehensive
Higher Cost Fixes Low Cost Measures Education and Enforcement
Hot Spots Can spread them out Can be somewhat short term effect
Often what the public wants (“political” fix)
Not as “sexy” as Hot Spot
May be best remedy to address behaviors
What should be the focus of Oregon’s Safety Program?
• Fair and unbiased process for local roads as well
as state highways
• Data Driven- let the data lead us
• Targeted to reduce the most fatal and serious
injury we can get
How do we get there?
• Looking at what other states do, i.e., application
process
• Stakeholder Meetings to gather input
• Draft Recommendations based on input
• Form a statewide technical committee
• Seek buy-in and agreement
• Develop recommendations by next July
What does the program look like?• Each region gets a share of the funds based on
F&A
• Local agencies will come up with priorities on
their system
• Each agency will submit applications
• Projects judged on how beneficial they are, i.e.,
benefit cost
What does the program look like?• A competitive process, competing with other
projects within the region
• Regions will sort thru and check all applications for
consistency
• Technical committee of stakeholders to judge
applications (with local representation)
What does the program look like?• ODOT will provide assistance to local agencies that
ask
• ODOT will provide clear criteria on the new program
• A lot of details of the process to yet be worked out
• None of this is in “concrete” yet, still working on it,
• Could change with more input
Questions?
Photo Credit: Jonathan Maus