ISPE

Subcommittee on In-Service Performance Evaluation - AKD20(3)

Chair:

Christine Carrigan

Subcommittee Vision:

Sharing information and collaborating on the use of data to improve roadside safety, support decision making, and improve state standards through In-Service Performance Evaluation.

Subcommittee Goals & Objectives:

• • Promote data driven and cost-effective decision making to reduce the severity of run off road crashes with roadside safety features

  • Evaluate, disseminate, and promote proven standardized data collection, innovative data sources, asset management, and analysis techniques to evaluate roadside safety feature performance

  • Institutionalize In-service performance evaluations (ISPE) of roadside safety hardware to inform future decisions regarding crash testing, field implementation, determination of crashworthiness, and state practices

  • Promote ISPEs to establish crashworthiness and to support updating of foundational documents such as the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide (RDG) and AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH)

Subcommittee Activities:

• • Provide a forum for the roadside safety community to exchange ISPE best practices, state-of-the-practice for data collection, asset identification and management, and analysis techniques. (midyear meetings, workshops, webinars)

  • Develop research needs statements which support improved data collection and analysis with respect to ISPEs

  • Promote emerging/advancing technologies and innovative ideas related to roadside asset identification, location and condition assessment

  • Promote and support establishing a clearing house of ISPE efforts nationwide

  • Consider developing a TRB webinar to disseminate ISPE related information

  • Support development a Synthesis of practice