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Successes in Reducing Highway FatalitiesKathy Harvey, MoDOT
State Design EngineerJuly 16, 2008Albuquerque, N.M.
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Fatal Crash LocationsAre Random
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Fatal Crash TypesAre Not Random
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Identifying TheEssential Eight
1. Primary Seat Belt Law2. Public Education3. Targeted Enforcement4. Punish Drunk Drivers
5. Median Cable Barrier6. Rumble Strips7. Signs & Stripes8. Shoulders
SystemImprovements
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With a 32,000-mile system, where to start?
System-wide Solutions
Major & Minor Roads
Major Minor
Roadway Miles 5,500 26,500
Miles Traveled 80% 20%
Fatalities 45% 55%
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• Build good projects everywhere, instead of perfect projects somewhere.
• By doing so, the entire system improves, not just a few locations.
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The First Ground Rule…
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Missouri Progress Guard cable
• 500 miles of cable installed on our interstates since ’04.
• Low and High Tension.
• Studied all reported cross-median crashes, 1999-2005 (1,400)
• 95% success rate
• Vehicles did not enter opposing lanes.
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Safety Analysis: Guard Cable I-70 Cross-Median Fatalities
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Safety Analysis: Guard Cable I-44 Cross-Median Fatalities
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Safety Analysis: Guard Cable Interstate Cross-Median Fatalities
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Missouri Progress Smooth Roads Initiative
• Made 2,200 miles of our major roads safer.
• Smoother pavement, brighter striping, rumble stripes.
• 2005-2006.
• Early completion estimated to save 14 lives and prevent 589 injuries.
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Smooth Roads Initiative
TREATMENTS
• New Roadway Surface
• Asphalt - Overlay
• Concrete - Diamond Grind
• 6” Edgelines: Rumble Stripe (Epoxy)
• 6” Lane Lines: 3M “Waffle Tape”
• Some wet-reflective
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Smooth Roads Initiative
• Delineate everything
• Emergency Reference Markers
• Sign upgrades
TREATMENTS
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Missouri Progress Better Roads, Brighter Future
Focusing on 5,573 miles that carry 80 percent of all traffic – work includes surface treatments, wider stripes and paved shoulders.
Will bring major roads up to 85 percent in good condition by end of 2011.
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Better Roads, Brighter FutureTREATMENTS• All major roads (5,500 mi) will have
• Minimum 4-foot paved shoulder
• Smooth driving surface
• Improved signing
• 1,000+ miles will receive Edgeline and Centerline rumble stripes
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Imbed Safety into Policy• Rumble Stripes (Edgeline &
Centerline)
• All major roads
• All minor roads with crash history
• 6-inch Stripes for Major Roads
• All Edgeline
• Multi-lane skips
• Curve Speed Plaques
• Every Curve/Turn sign
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Missouri Progress
• Missouri led the nation in saving lives in 2006.
• Of the 868 fewer traffic deaths nationwide, Missouri accounted for 161 of them.
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Safety Analysis: Saving Lives Missouri Fatalities
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Missouri Progress
• 21 percent decrease in fatalities from 2005 to 2007.
• 9 percent decrease in fatalities from 2006 to 2007.
• 1,257 fatalities in 2005.
• 1,096 fatalities in 2006.
• 992 fatalities in 2007.
• Haven’t had fewer than 1,000 fatalities since 1993 – 15 years
ago.
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How We Know it’s Working…
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The Future?
• The possibility of truck-only lanes on I-70.
• SEIS underway.
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The Future?
• Shared Four-Lane.
• One under construction now.
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For More Information:Kathy Harvey, State Design EngineerMissouri Department of [email protected]