Jurisdictionally Blind Safety

Roadway Departure Crash- 2013

Map -21 – Major Themes for HSIP(Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program, Section 148 of Title 23)

• Emphasizes goal to reduce Fatal and serious injury crashes

• Emphasizes spending on all public roads

• Increased Funding for Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

• Requires Performance Based Measures (States set Targets)

– Fatal and Serious injury Crashes per VMT– Number of Fatalities and Serious Injuries

• New roadway data and highway basemap requirements

• Maintains emphasis on data-driven approach

HSIP & Data Driven

• The objective of HSIP is to significantly reduce the occurrence of fatalities and serious

injuries

• A data-driven approach uses crash data, risk factors, or other data supported methods to

identify possible locations to achieve the greatest benefits

• The key to any good safety program is indentifying the best candidate locations for

investment

• The traditional approach to safety is to identify “hot spot” locations, then try to indentify

measures to implement.

• The systemic approach identifies a few proven low-cost measures to be widely

implemented where there is evidence that they would be most useful

• The systemic approach complements the traditional approach

Oregon FA (Fatal + Serious Injury Crashes) 2009-2011

213648%

120827%

110625%

State Highways

Urban Non-state

Rural Non-state

• About 900 of the rural FA crashes are on 26,000* miles of County Roads

• About 300 or so non-state FA crashes are on 30,000* miles of tribal lands, BLM, Forest Service, local access and other roads

• About 1100 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

Jurisdictionally Blind Safety

ODOT met with representatives of the League of Oregon

Cities (LOC) and the Association of Oregon Counties

(AOC)--

• Discussed the need for developing a safety program for all

public roads

(prior years ODOT just used HSIP funds on State Highways)

• Discussed moving towards a jurisdictionally blind safety

program

• Memorandum of Understanding between ODOT, AOC and LOC

Program Principles• Reduce Fatal and Serious Injury crashes

• Address safety on all public roads

• Data driven

• Blind to jurisdiction

• Overseen by ODOT Regions

• Commitments to current STIP maintained

Funding Principles• Allocated to each ODOT Region based on Fatal and Serious injury

crashes

• Strive for Proportional between urban and rural

• Projects focused on

Fatal and Serious

injury crash

reductions

• A portion to

behavioral

strategies

What do you see in this photo?What do the skids marks say?

Project Selection Principles• Focus on fatal and serious injury reduction

• Primarily developed and overseen by ODOT

• Regional project selection must engage local jurisdictions

• Combine projects on state and local roads where possible

• Follow principles of practical design

How do we Transition?

• Funding for jurisdictionally blind starts in 2017

• A transition program should be developed to bridge the

gap from 2013 to 2017

• The transition should focus on a few systemic fixes

• All parties should engage to develop a selection process

We have to:• Maintain projects in Current 2013-2015 STIP• Process already underway for 2016-2018 STIP

Safety Funding for Local Rds• For 2013-2015 (Transition)

– Allocate $10 million HSIP to local roads over three years

– Allocate $1 million/year for strategies in TSAP• For 2016 (Transition)

– Allocate $6 million HSIP to local roads– Allocate $1 million for strategies in TSAP

• For 2017 and beyond

– Implement “jurisdictionally blind” safety program

Photo Credit: Peter Koonce

Funding for Local Roads 2013-2016

Region Splits* 2013 - 2015 2016 Total

1 46.6% $4,663,540 $2,798,124 $7,461,665

2 27.3% $2,731,536 $1,638,921 $4,370,457

3 14.6% $1,458,382 $875,029 $2,333,411

4 7.5% $754,982 $452,989 $1,207,972

5 3.9% $391,559 $234,936 $626,495

Total   $10,000,000 $6,000,000 $16,000,000

*Splits based on F&A crashes on local roads

Transition Program• ODOT will hire a consultant to facilitate the process in

each region

• Local Jurisdictions will be asked to participate in

selection of a few key systemic measures in each region

• Kick-off Meetings will occur in Apr-May 2013

• ODOT regions will be in charge of delivering the projects

Stakeholders will review regional data:

Number of Fatal and Serious Injury Crashes (F&A) 2007-2011 Crash Data (Five Years)ODOT Region 2 – County Roads

Oregon F&A8,253

Urban396

State Highways3,989

County Roads2,036

City Streets2,228

Intersection134 Non-Intersection

262

Top 4

Rear-End 66Fixed Obj 91

Turning 28Ped 24

Top 4

Turning 24Angle 17

Fixed Obj 11 Rear-End 3

Top 4

Turning 20Angle 8

Rear-End 5Ped 3

Stop/Regulatory57

Signal37

Ped/Bik50*

Intersection234

Other/unk95

Top 4

Fixed Obj 861Non-Coll 165

Head-on 116 SS Meet 58

Top 4

Turning 54Angle 35

Fixed Obj 33Non-Coll 4

Top 4

Turning 5Fixed Obj 2

Ped 1Non-Coll 1

Stop/Regulatory130

Signal9

Ped/Bik64*

Other/unk40

ROR1161*

Rural1640

Non-Intersection1405

Examples of Systemic Measures for Roadway Departure

Curve Warning Signs with Speed Riders 13% All $500-$700 per sign

Oversize Curve Warning Signs 18% All $500-$600 per sign

Chevrons Placed in Accordance with 2009 MUTCD 20%-35% All (dependent on facility type) $300-$500 per sign

Centerline Rumble Strips 14% All Rural 2-Lane Roads $700-$900 per mile

Centerline Rumble Strips 21% Head on & Sideswipe $700-$900 per mile

Shoulder Rumble Strips 16%/33% All Rural MultiLane/ two lane $700-$900 per mile

Edgeline Rumple Strips 33% All Rural two-lane $3-5K per mile (includes striping)

First Time Installation of Delineators Where None Existed Before

11%/34%/67%

All/Run off Road/ Head-On

500 ft curve = $210-$4201,000 ft curve = $270-$540

Transition Program - TimingTiming of the projects still needs to be worked out-

• Regions likely to go through selection process with local

stakeholders in summer of 2013

• Project scoping and development in late 2013

• Actual projects delivered in 2014

Questions?

Photo Credit: Jonathan Maus

Region Contacts:Region 1 – Rian WindsheimerRegion 2 – Angela KargelRegion 3 – Frank ReadingRegion 4 – Joel McCarrollRegion 5 – Monte Grove