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Evaluations of Low Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study > Agenda for the 2009 FHWA Low Cost Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

Agenda for the 2009 FHWA Low Cost Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

Day 1

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

8:30 – 8:50

Welcome

Dr. Ray Krammes, FHWA Office of Safety R&D

Introduction and Objectives for Meeting

FHWA Safety Management, Office of Safety Research and Development,

Roya Amjadi and Dr. Carol Tan

Welcome and Introduction

8:50 – 9:00

SafetyAnalyst, Dr. Ray Krammes

9:00 – 10:30

Results of Evaluations 5-8

Lane and Shoulder Width, Dr. Frank Gross

Offset Left Turn Lanes at Signals, Dr. Bhagwant Persaud

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:00

Results of Evaluations 5-8 (Cont’d)

Advance Street Name Signs, Dr. Frank Gross

Horizontal Curve Improvements, Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan (Srini)

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 1:30

Crash Reduction Factors Resources, Kim Eccles

Desktop Reference for CRF

CRF Training Courses

CRF Clearinghouse (in development)

1:30 – 1:45

MMIRE, Dr. Carol Tan

1:45 – 2:00

Break

2:00 – 3:30

Plans for Phase V, Roya Amjadi

3:30 – 5:00

State Efforts (Roundtable discussion)

Possible Discussion Topics:

  1. What are your current safety focus areas, particularly related to low-cost efforts?
  2. Do you have any projects focused on low-cost system-wide safety improvements? Rural road safety improvements?
  3. What is working and what isn’t related to low-cost safety improvements?
  4. Do you have any innovative low-cost treatments that appear to be working well?
  5. Do you currently or do you plan to track safety improvements through a central database?
  6. Possible evaluations to be considered by Low-Cost Safety PFS?

5:00

Day 1 Meeting Adjournment

Day 2

Thursday, March 19, 2009

8:30 – 9:00

Continuation of Day 1 Discussion (if needed)

9:00 – 9:30

Phase III Overview, Roya Amjadi

9:30 – 10:30

Progress to Date

Florida, Joseph Santos

Iowa, Tom Welch

Kansas, Steven Buckley

Kentucky, Jeff Wolfe

Virginia, Ning Li or Stephen Read

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:00

Crash Data Information Program (CDIP), Bob Pollack, FHWA Office of Safety

11:00– 11:30

Simulation Results, Paul Tremont, FHWA Office of Safety R&D

11:30– 12:00

Future Directions of the Study and Final Thoughts, Roya Amjadi

12:00

Meeting Wrap-up

 

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