asset management: a tool to save lives, time and dollars
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June 23, 2006
Asset Management
A Tool to Save Lives, Time, and $$$
The Safety Problem Is Global The Safety Solution
Is Local and Personal
Business of Saving Lives
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Plateau in Motor Vehicle Fatality Trend in U.S.
* NHTSA FARS; as of 5/2006
The Problem - Today
Highway deaths have remained relatively constant–
43,200 (2005) 42,636 (2004) and…
The fatality rate is unacceptably high: 1.44 deaths per 100 million VMT
The Problem – Tomorrow
77 will be injured in a crash during their lifetimes…some more than once.
One will die violently
in a highway crash during his/her
lifetime.
FHWA Office of Safety
The Cost
$230 Billion Rick owes $ 820
Strategic
Planning and conducting a campaign on a broad scale.
“The BIG PICTURE”
A Strategic Highway Safety Plan …
• Starts with the Planning Process.
• Provides a comprehensive, coordinated, continuing, communicative, focused, and unified approach.
Mission“To reduce deaths, injuries, and
economic costs resulting from motor vehicle crashes.”
“Safest Drivers, Safest Roads.”
Vision
SHSP Characteristics
• Data driven• Strategic• Comprehensive• Integrated• Mission statement• Vision statement• Goals• Prioritization of
emphasis areas
• Targets• Measurable success
indicators• Living document
• ACCOUNTABILITY
Data Driven
• Where?• When?• Who?• How?• What?
The What Contributing Factors
US State
• Roadway Departure 59 % 60%
• BAC Related 39 % 36%
• Belt Use 82% 79%
• Unrestrained 52% 60%
• Intersections 22 % 35%
• Pedestrian 11 % 9%
• Work Zone 3% 6%
• Young Drivers (16-24) 23 % 26%
• Older Drivers (65+) 19% 17%
Integrated
• Integrates the 4 E’s
–Education–Engineering–Enforcement–Emergency
Services
Emphasis Areas
• Alcohol• At-Risk Drivers • Occupant Restraint• Speed • Traffic Records
Emphasis Areas
• Run- Off-Road• Intersections • Pedestrians• Commercial Vehicles
Gateways to Information
• Website for collecting and disseminating information on program development and effectiveness, and in-depth technical background; maintain currency of knowledge base.
• Printed Guides for developing programs
• http://safety.transportation.org
Transportation Asset Management for Roadway Safety
A strategic approach to A strategic approach to
managing transportation managing transportation
infrastructureinfrastructure
The Connection ……
--- AASHTO Asset Management Guide
Why Asset Management for Roadway Safety is important
• Safety is a top priority • Goal is to reduce highway fatalities and injuries• Important to construct, maintain, and operate
safer transportation systems• Need to have data and facts of existing
conditions and performance • Need to identify and set priorities• Roadway safety expenditures compete for
limited DOT resources against other assets
Why• Leverage resources.• Additional funding sources.• Powerful funding request tool.• Make safety efforts more effective
and efficient.• Make the task easier.• Support legislative initiatives. • Reduce fatalities and injuries.
It’s about Decision making...
...At every level
...Across disciplines
...With performance measures
...And feedback at all levels
Asset Management....
Expenditure of funds:● based on trade-off analysis, alternatives considered across functions and asset classes● driven by customer requirements ● address a multitude of considerations● incorporate extended time horizons● systematic and data driven
In 2000, FHWA with AASHTO undertook a study to establish a baseline of current roadway safety hardware management practices, needs, and interest in enhancements.
SignsSignalsSupporting StructuresGuardrails / AttenuatorsLightingPavement MarkingsITS Equipment
What is Safety Hardware Management?
• Inventory • Investment vs. Performance• Programmed Renewals• Legal Protections
What other states are doing.............
MinnesotaGeorgiaMarylandVirginiaCaliforniaNew MexicoIdaho
Why bother with an AMS Roadway Safety?
• Improves resource allocation • Improves system reliability and performance• Improves decision making:
●What performs best/which devices have the lowest long-term costs?
Save Lives, Time and $$$
Asset Management for Roadway Safety
ComputerizedDatabase
Maintenance
Operations
Design
Programming
Construction
Safety
Legal CounselData Collection
Finance
Planning
Contributions• Serve as Champion• Lead/support the effort • Build upon existing partnerships and
coalitions• Help form and enhance coalitions• Bring other safety partners to the table• Keep the safety partners focused• Provide and analyze data
Contributions
• Establish and support the 4E emphasis teams • Hold the safety partners accountable• Keep the momentum • Share expertise and knowledge
– Coalition Building– Data Analyses– Goal Setting– Performance Measures– Problem ID– Identifying Strategies – Evaluation
Contributions
•Determination•Perseverance•Commitment•Passion
Challenges
• Language and culture• Turf and Funds• Silos• Organizational Structures• Approaches to the problem • Commitment, Determination and
Perseverance
Success Indicators• Are we making a
difference?• Membership of
coalition.• Leverage
resources.• Reduction of
injuries and fatalities.
Living Document
• What is the data saying?
• Have trends changed?
• Change in emphasis areas?
• Re-prioritize?• The appropriate
countermeasures?
ACCOUNTABILITY
On the Journey to Save Lives
For more information...
Thomas Van, P.E.Office of Asset [email protected]
AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Website
www.assetmanagement.transportation.org
Rudolph Umbs, P. E.
Office of Safety
202-366-2177