Safety Planning
Safety Planning in the Baltimore Region
The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board continuously explores ways to incorporate safety into the regional transportation planning process through Safety Conscious Planning. SCP is a proactive approach to preventing unsafe transportation conditions and includes areas such as: - Improving area management and operations strategies (i.e. emergency response management, traveler information services, etc.)
- Identifying additional data needs and collection methods
- Increasing coordination with state and federal planning efforts
The BRTB also works with state and local agencies in the development of long and short range plans. Each plan goes through a process of technical analysis and review.
Safety and Transportation 2030
In the current long range plan, Transportation 2030, safety was considered through the prioritization process. Working in coordination with the State Highway Administration, the BRTB collected three years (2000 – 2003) of crash data. Data included total number of crashes, fatalities, and injuries for each of the candidate projects.
State and local traffic count data was used to calculate the number of miles traveled per vehicle and the number of miles per project. Both of these measures were then ranked based on how each of them scored on crash frequency and crash severity. This provided a “safety score” for each project. Safety accounted for 20 percent of the technical score in the project prioritization process.
Want to learn more?
Safety and Transportation 2030
In the current long range plan, Transportation 2030, safety was considered through the prioritization process. Working in coordination with the State Highway Administration, the BRTB collected three years (2000 – 2003) of crash data. Data included total number of crashes, fatalities, and injuries for each of the candidate projects.
State and local traffic count data was used to calculate the number of miles traveled per vehicle and the number of miles per project. Both of these measures were then ranked based on how each of them scored on crash frequency and crash severity. This provided a “safety score” for each project. Safety accounted for 20 percent of the technical score in the project prioritization process.
Want to learn more?
- Traffic Safety in Maryland – Check out this series of fact sheets on crashes for the Baltimore metropolitan region and entire state.
Links within this web site:
Traffic Safety in Maryland
Links to other web sites:
State Highway Office of Traffic and Safety
Safety Initiatives and Information (SHA)
FHWA Safety Conscious Planning
Maryland Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Last Updated: 12/19/2008