RSP Module 4: Solving Safety Problems
Effective safety management; that is, accurately identifying safety problems and developing effective solutions, is at the core of roadway safety training. This module provides an overview of the safety management process, and explores some of the decision-making tools and techniques to evaluate countermeasures and other treatments. The specific areas covered include data-driven safety management, systemic approaches to safety management, sources for crash countermeasures, road safety diagnostic tools, multidisciplinary approaches to road safety, collision patterns and crash contribution factors, user-focused road safety interventions, countermeasure cost effectiveness evaluation, countermeasure effectiveness evaluation, and tradeoff analysis for safety performance.

Learning Objectives

• Identify and describe the steps in a safety management process that uses effective data-driven procedures and methods to reduce fatalities and injuries caused by traffic collisions
• Identify and describe a systemwide, countermeasure-oriented approach
• List reliable sources of multidisciplinary countermeasures to reduce fatalities and serious injuries
• Describe tools and techniques used to diagnose safety problems and describe their specific advantages and disadvantages
• Describe multidisciplinary approaches that can be used to evaluate and deploy the most effective solutions
• Understand collision patterns and crash contributing factors
• Describe user-specific interventions targeted at different populations
• Identify how countermeasure costs and benefits can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of program and project investments
• Identify the elements of a countermeasure evaluation by using data to determine its impact
• Identify techniques for estimating and comparing the safety performance of different project alternatives