Section 3: External References

The websites below were last accessed on May 31, 2024
  1. Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan
    • Texas Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety seek to develop strategic highway safety plans to drive down the number of fatalities.
  2. Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse
    • CMF is used to compute the number of crashes after implementing a countermeasure on a road.
  3. Identifying Appropriate Crash Modification Factors
    • Provides filters to enable users to narrow the search results of inappropriate CMFs.
  4. Highway Safety Manual Updates
    • HSM is guidance document for incorporating quantitative safety analysis within the transportation project.
  5. Highway Safety Engineering
    • Highway Safety Engineering uses crash data to implement projects with the intent to save lives and reduce crashes.
  6. Highway Safety Engineering Website
    • Link to the Highway Safety Engineering website which includes information on the HSIP program (including the SII Calculator), SSWP, Safety Engineering Reports
  7. Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) “List of Safety Tools”
    • Link to the list of safety tools on TTIs website. These tools are designed to help the user identify roadway locations with the best opportunities to improve safety performance and to evaluate design alternatives for their impact on safety.