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In 2015, more than 35,000 people in the United States lost their lives in motor vehicle-related crashes. Every time a crash results in death or serious injuries, it affects countless families, friends, employers, and communities in ways that have lasting and far-reaching effects.

The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a Federal High--way Administration program that funds State safety projects intended to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. States may use HSIP funds for infrastructure improvements that address safety concerns (for example, intersection design, pedestrian crossings, and retrofits to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions).

In 2012, FHWA embarked on a new and improved approach to managing HSIP. This core Federal-aid program now requires transportation performance management as a basis for improving highway safety. The new focus will enhance data-driven safety decisions, improve collaboration across a wide range of safety partners, provide transparency for the public, and, most important, save lives.

On October 24, 2016 FHWA published its final rule on required state-approved asset management plans and processes. This factsheet summarizes key elements of the final rule.

This video covers the ITD Best of the Best Awards in 2016, including information on the winners and improvements to the program itself, which encourages continuous improvement. The categories in which an award may be received for an innovative solution are safety, customer service, economic opportunity, cost savings, mobility, time savings, and employee development.

This system of rating the risk of rockfalls was developed for the Oregon Department of Transportation. The goal behind a comprehensive system for evaluating the risk is to allow the DOT to address the risk in a systematic and proactive way instead of simply responding to incidents retroactively. The report has directions for how any agency can implement their rating systems for rockfall hazards. Although the system addresses just the risk of rockfalls, the general principles behind it can also be extrapolated to any specific risk that a transportation system needs to classify.

This primer examines how congestion pricing can be integrated into an integrated corridor management (ICM) approach. It defines the needs of ICM stakeholders and the benefits of congestion pricing in realizing effective ICM, explores opportunities to effectively integrate congestion pricing on institutional, operational, and technical levels, both by leveraging existing applications and considering new options; and identifies the major challenges to integrating ICM and congestion pricing, along with potential solutions. In addition, it provides real-world examples of integrating congestion pricing with the ICM approach. While there are limited examples of integrating ICM with congestion pricing strategies at the time of writing, the lessons learned from the current integration attempts may provide valuable input and direction to future attempts.

WSDOT's quarterly performance report including updates on agency programming, policy goals, and new initiatives.

Iowa DOT’s initial TAMP, describes how Iowa DOT manages its bridges and pavements throughout their lives, providing a framework that will guide funding decisions across Iowa DOT districts, divisions, bureaus, and offices. Sections covered in the plan include bridge management, pavement management, financial plan, risk management, investment strategies, and asset management implementation.

This presentation from the October 2016 Lean Forum includes specific presentations from the State of Illinois, New Brunswick DOT and Infrastructure, Colorado DOT, and SCOPM Organizational Excellence Task Force.

TRB held a webinar to focus on strategies for incorporating climate change and extreme weather risk into asset management programming. The webinar featured presentations from FHWA, the University of Delaware, WSP-Parsons Brinkerhoff, ICF International, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

This 2016 synthesis report presents a comprehensive scan of current methods and approaches to life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) within highway agencies. The report features a literature review and individual case studies. It also includes the results of an agency survey.

Many state departments of transportation (DOTs) use a maintenance management system (MMS) to manage roadway maintenance activities. At some agencies, the MMS is part of a department-wide asset
management system. The MMS may also be linked with other agency systems and databases, such as human resources or financial systems.

To learn more about state DOTs’ use of maintenance management systems, in July 2016 the No Boundaries pooled fund project sent an online survey to maintenance representatives in all 50 states. The survey questions were designed to build on previous surveys conducted by Iowa DOT (February 2016) and Montana DOT (March 2014, through the AASHTO Research Advisory Committee).

The objective of this research is to develop proposed AASHTO guidelines for a data-driven risk assessment at the bridge and structure level. The guidelines considered risks from natural and man-made hazards and aimed to be useful in a bridge management system.