Identification of Safety Practices, Issues, and Needs of Local Transportation and Law Enforcement Agencies

摘要

As part of the effort to implement the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), state Departmentsof Transportation (DOTs) are increasingly looking to reach out to local and law enforcementagencies. This paper summarizes the results from a study by the Florida Department ofTransportation (FDOT) to identify the existing safety practices, issues, and needs of localtransportation agencies and law enforcement offices in Florida. As part of the study, twocomprehensive online surveys were developed targeting local transportation agencies and lawenforcement agencies. The survey questions targeting local transportation agencies included 39questions that focused on several areas of interest, such as: standardization of crash analysismethods and tools, high crash locations, training needs, and working with FDOT. Of specialemphasis among the areas is standardization of crash analysis, which targets agencies’ feedbackon adoption of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM), deployment of SafetyAnalyst, and use of astandard geographic information systems (GIS) spatial tool. For law enforcement agencies, thesurvey included 25 questions covering topics on selection of enforcement locations, trafficviolations and safety campaigns, use of crash reports, and working with transportation agencies.This paper only includes results from select questions from both surveys that are likely to be ofgeneral interest to the readers. The surveys developed in this study could be adapted by otherstate DOTs interested in conducting similar studies to identify their local agency practices andneeds to assist in their SHSP implementation.