1. Highway Safety Team Staff Meeting SMART Portal HSIP Application Demonstration Systemic Safety Improvement (SSI)
November 21,2017

2. VDOT HSIP Program/Projects
HSIP Programs
HSIP Projects
Spot Highway Safety Project
Systemic Highway Safety Project
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Program (H-RGCP)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program (BPSP)
Highway Safety Program (HSP)

3. Types of HSIP Projects VDOT Business Plan Action Item 3.2.3 States:
Systemic Highway Safety Project –
A project that consists of a lower-cost/high-benefit highway safety countermeasure that is deployed at multiple higher-risk roadway locations to address a particular crash type.
Systemic projects rarely involve reconstruction of the existing roadway features.
Typical lower-cost safety countermeasures range from $1000 to $100,000 per treated location.
Spot Highway Safety Project –
A project that deploys a safety countermeasure or countermeasures at a single location or along a single corridor on the highway network.
The scope of work often involves reconstruction of existing roadway features or construction of new features such as turn lanes or new travel lanes.
Typical cost to treat a single location is much higher than the individual cost of a single location within a systemic project.
Costs for spot projects can vary widely but are generally in the $100,000 to $10,000,000 range.
Spot Highway
Safety Project
Systemic Highway
Safety Project

4. Systemic Low Cost Safety Countermeasures Examples:
Retroreflective
Backplates
High intensity Activated Crosswalk Beacon
Flashing Yellow Arrow
Ped Refuge Islands
Cost:$20K/intersection
CRF:36 % of left turn angle crashes, 15% of total crashes
Cost: 5-7K/intersection
CRF:15 % of all intersection crashes
Cost: HAWK Signal: $90-120K per location
CRF: 29% Total Crashes, 69% Ped Crashes.
Cost: $20-30K/location if no R/W needed
CRF:Ped crash by 46%40-45 % of all crashes
FHWA proven safety countermeasure

5. Systemic Low Cost Safety Countermeasures Examples:
Rumble Strips/Stripes
Curve Delineation
Road Diets
Safety Edge
Cost: $7K/mile – center line RS, $12K/mile – shoulder RS
CRF: 44-64% - center line RS, 36% - shoulder RS
Cost: $5K/location
CRF: 30-50% of all crashes
Cost: $20-30K/mile for pavement marking changes
CRF: 29% of all crashes
Cost:$536-$2,145K per mi
for both sides of the road
CRF: 20% in total crashes.
FHWA proven safety countermeasure

6. DEMO – SYSTEMIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENT APPLICATION
SMART-PORTAL
Demo Prd:
Demo UAT:

7. VDOT HSIP Application Portal

8. Guideline and Development
The Systemic Tool provides the process and outlines to select systemic safety improvements and projects.
The Systemic Tool provides a framework for determining a reasonable funding distribution between spot safety and systemic safety improvements, and discusses the evaluation of systemic safety programs.

9. Systemic HSP Application Process
Example:
Angle
Signalized Intersection 50 40
100%
Flashing Yellow Arrow
Deployment Level
Total Location
Location Meeting Threshold
Targeted KAB Crashes
High LTL Crashes
Determine Number of Locations: Identified by Network Screening - Undergoing

10. VDOT Systemic Application
Select the Programs that apply to you.
I am applying for Systemic Safety Improvements.
HSIP SSI

11. VDOT Systemic Application
Enter the General Project Descriptions/information's
Systemic Improvement – Flashing Yellow arrow
Install Flashing Yellow Arrow-Various Locations Districtwide
VDOT
Project Manager
1401 E Broad Street
Richmond VA
23219
Central Office
Central Office
Regular Type
Intersection
Urban Minor Arterial
Urbanized (200,000+)
Non-NHS
Traffic Signal
Chesterfield County
Countywide
Primary
Countywide
Countywide

12. VDOT Systemic Application
Focus crash types include:
Angle
Roadway Departure
Rear-End
Sideswipe
Head-On
Bicycle
Pedestrian
The focus facility types include:
Signalized Intersection
Unsignalized intersection
Segment
Curve
Mid-block
Select the Systemic Improvement Type
Angle
Signalized Intersection
5 Years 3
Risk Factor
Poor visibility of signal
Inadequate signal timing
Excessive speed
Slippery pavement
Inadequate sight distance
Red-light running
Inadequate lighting
Inadequate Signal timing
Flashing Yellow Arrow 50
5 Left Turn Crashes in 5 Yrs. 40
100 40
Proposed Systemic Improvement:
Flashing Yellow Arrow
Install additional signal head per approach
Replace 8" signal head with a 12" signal head
Re-time traffic signals for better coordination and for proper red and amber clear intervals
Retroreflective Backplate 40 20
$ 0
$ 0
$15,000
$600,000
$60,000
$1,000
$674,877

13. VDOT Systemic Application
Applicable Crash Type:
All
Cross median
Fixed object
Head on
Run off road
Angle
Left turn
Right turn
Bicycle
Pedestrian
0.7
Left Turn
Flashing Yellow Arrow
$5,302,332
$674,877
7.9
7.9

14. CMF’s Clearinghouse
Star Quality Rating based on a scale 1 to 5, where 5 indicates the best rating.
We recommend highest star rating and use engineering judgement to select the suitable CMF value.
We are working on developing VA specific CMF value.
CMF should be selected based on the applicable severity and crash type.
CMF should be applied only to the severity/crash type for which they were developed.

15. VDOT Systemic Application
Not Needed
$ 0
Not Needed
$ 0
Not Started
$660,000
$660,000
$660,000

16. VDOT Systemic Application
Location Tab:
Mapping features is linked to VDOT LRS.
Locate the study area where the proposed improvements will be implemented.
Users can add multiple area/systemic sites.
Location is a Required Field.

17. VDOT HSIP Projects Submittals

18. VDOT Project Scoring Final Score:
Green – Project will be funded based upon the funding availability.
Yellow – Waiting List.
Red – Not funded this SYIP.

19. QUESTIONS ?
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