Roadway Safety Management Process

Roadway safety management is the process of managing and improving safety on transportation infrastructure for all roadway users. At a high level, this consists of three primary components:

Identifying safety problems

1. • Using crash, asset, or other public data to identify safety problems or problem locations.

Developing potential safety strategies

1. • Identify potential countermeasures, treatments, or strategies to mitigate the identified safety problems.

Selecting and implementing strategies

1. • Evaluate the potential solutions and select and implement the most effective or appropriate options.

At a more detailed level, the safety management process is broken into six steps. These steps can be applied in a variety of contexts including site analysis, systemic evaluations, education/enforcement activities, and many other safety improvement efforts. Each step listed below includes links to related training articles.

1. Network Screening

   • Historic and Predictive Safety Analysis

   • Systemic Treatments

   • Safety System Approach

2. Diagnosis

   • Interpreting Crash Attributes

   • What is a pattern?

3. Countermeasure Selection

   • Countermeasures

   • Crash Modification Factors

4. Economic Appraisal

   • Crash Costs

   • Benefit Cost Analysis

5. Project Prioritization

   • Refer to the UDOT HSIP Manual for prioritization details

6. Safety Effectiveness Evaluation

   • See "Economic Appraisal" section above.

More information about the Roadway Safety Management Process can be found in Part B of the Highway Safety Manual and in the Introduction to the Highway Safety Manual.