Transcript Ann Brach--SHRP 2 Presentation-

Accelerating solutions for highway safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity
Update
AASHTO Standing Committee on Research
July 26, 2011
Overall Status
• ~100 contracts; 20 complete; 70 active; a
few yet to be awarded
• 313 separate research entities involved
• SAFETY-LU extension added $47.8 million;
additional funds with FHWA
• Extended cooperative agreement with
FHWA to March 2015
• Increasing focus on preparing for
implementation
Safety Highlights
• Naturalistic driving study in place in all 6
sites: NY, PA, IN, FL, NC, WA
• 650+ vehicles on the road
• Data coming in: 40,000+ trip files
• 2 minor crashes
• Roadway data collection to begin this fall:
Fugro Roadway
• First analysis projects later this year
• Data sharing policies, procedures, website
Behind the scenes …
• 2-year design process
• 1-year site contractor ID process
• Manufacture of 2500 custom-designed data
acquisition systems
• Review/approval by 8 (now 6) ethics boards
• Outfitting the sites (leases, hiring, security,
IT, equipment, training, site inspections)
• 11 custom software to support & installation;
custom hardware to support installation
• Site support & coordination; trouble-shooting
Example Uses of NDS Data
• Improve roadway geometry, signing,
markings
• Improve design of vehicles and in-vehicle
devices, warning systems, etc.
• Improve driver education for teens
• Develop assistance for older drivers
• Data-based laws regarding use of hand-held
devices (by teens, truckers, all drivers)
• Planning, highway operations, fuel
efficiency, environmental effects
Renewal Highlights
• TRB’s 1st e-book: DOT-RR project
agreement strategies
• Web-based tools: geotech designs;
choosing utility location technologies
• Demos: IA-replace bridge in 2 weeks; NYreplace bridge over weekend
• Risk workshops, real-time PCC smoothness
measurement, composite pavements, NDT
technologies, performance specs for rapid
renewal, use existing pavements in place
More Examples of Products
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Modular and composite pavements
Risk manual for innovative contracting
Integrating utility and DOT priorities
Railroad-DOT mitigation strategies
Reducing personnel fatigue
Innovative project management
Performance and incentive specs
Corridor/network planning for renewal
Reliability Highlights
• Foundational projects: definitions,
measurement, monitoring, training,
institutional change/practices
• Strategic implementation planning
workshop
• Archive for reliability data
• “Capstone” project: framework for
improving reliability, integrates all
results
Capacity Highlights
• TCAPPS: for collaborative decision
making
• TPICS: for economic impact analysis
• Performance measurement
• All available in as a web-based tool
(beta version)
• Adding: GHG, smart growth, private
sector involvement
Capacity: Pilots
• Advanced travel demand models: state and
local agencies in Jacksonville, FL, and
Sacramento, CA
• Collaborative decision making tool: CO, WA,
MN
• Green house gas workshops: MA, MN, CO,
WA
• Pilots of ecological tools: CA, CO, OR, WV
• Strategic plan for freight: global freight
research consortium; modeling/data
symposium and innovation award
Preparing for Implementation
• TCCs developed plans
• FHWA, AASHTO, NHTSA reviewing,
coordinating
• Steering group: TRB, FHWA,
AASHTO, NHTSA
• May 10-11 workshop: cross-cutting
implementation issues
Implementation Coordination
Staff
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Jim McMinimee, AASHTO
Joe Conway, Ken Jacoby, FHWA
Tim Johnson, NHTSA
Jerry DiMaggio, SHRP 2
Thank You
For more information, see SHRP 2 website: www.trb.org/shrp2
For presentations from 6th safety symposium:
http://www.trb.org/StrategicHighwayResearchProgram2SHRP2/Pages/
Sixth_SHRP_2_Safety_Research_Symposium_498.aspx
For recent press on NDS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalacademyofsciences/sets/7215762
7069940789/
http://blogs.forbes.com/tanyamohn/2011/07/15/crash-study-seeksparticipants-in-effort-to-save-lives/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=study-willwatch-drivers-watch-the-11-07-17
For beta version of TCAPP’s web tools:
http://www.transportationforcommunities.com/