Links to Related Initiatives

AASHTO manages distribution, technical support, maintenance, and enhancement of SafetyAnalyst as a licensed AASHTOWare product: http://www.aashtoware.org

SafetyAnalyst includes tools to implement many of the procedures that are presented in Part B of the AASHTO Highway Safety Manual (HSM). Further information about the HSM can be found at www.highwaysafetymanual.org. The HSM can be purchased through the AASHTO bookstore at https://bookstore.transportation.org/item_details.aspx?ID=1581.

The FHWA Office of Safety manages the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) which will be a key funding source for implementing safety projects for which highway agencies identify a need using the SafetyAnalyst software: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/

The Crash Modification Factors (CMF) Clearinghouse houses a web-based database of CMFs along with supporting documentation to help transportation engineers identify the most appropriate countermeasure for their safety needs. Using this site, engineers can search to find CMFs or submit their own CMFs to be included in the clearinghouse. The site is funded by FHWA: http://www.cmfclearinghouse.org/

The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of software analysis tools for evaluating safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways. IHSDM results support decision-making in the highway design process. Whereas SafetyAnalyst is intended for use at the planning level and implements many of the HSM Part B (Roadway Safety Management Process) procedures, IHSDM is intended for use at the project level and implements the HSM Part C (Predictive Method) procedures. Further information about IHSDM can be found via the following links: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/projects/safety/comprehensive/ihsdm/ and http://www.ihsdm.org/wiki/Welcome

The Roadway Safety Data Partnership is designed to be a collaborative effort between FHWA and states to ensure that they are best able to develop robust data-driven safety capabilities. The partnership includes a variety of efforts aimed at improving the collection, analysis, management, and expansion of roadway data for use in safety programs and decision-making: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/rsdp/index.cfm

In 1998 AASHTO approved its Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), which was developed by the AASHTO Standing Committee for Highway Traffic Safety with the assistance of FHWA, NHTSA, and TRB’s Committee on Transportation Safety Management. The plan includes strategies in 22 key emphasis areas that affect highway safety. The SHSP, as well as tools developed for the implementation of the plan, are available from the following website: http://safety.transportation.org/

Toward Zero Deaths (TZD): A National Strategy on Highway Safety will be a data-driven effort focusing on identifying and creating opportunities for changing American culture as it relates to highway safety. The effort will focus on developing strong leadership and champions in organizations that can directly impact highway safety through engineering, enforcement, education, emergency medical service (EMS), policy, public health, communications, and other efforts. Further information about the TZD initiative can be found at http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/tzd/

The TRB Highway Safety Performance Committee is committed to the advancement and institutionalization of quantitative highway safety information (i.e., crash frequency and severity) to support transportation decision-making at all levels. An important function of the committee is to foster the continual development and validation of science-based safety performance measures and their integration into professional tools and practice. The committee identifies, encourages, and refines the development of scientifically sound highway safety research directed toward the application of quantitative analysis of the safety impacts of transportation planning, design, operations, construction, and maintenance activities. Further information about the TRB Highway Safety Performance Committee can be found at http://safetyperformance.org/