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