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The HSM helps transportation agencies provide the highest level of
safety performance within the financial resources available. While
other initiatives have focused on analytical examples of implementation of the HSM, AASHTO, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) (through the National Cooperative Highway
Research Program [NCHRP]) sponsored a domestic scan to identify
leading practices in the use of the HSM for planning, design, and
operations. The scan provided an opportunity to discuss processes
and work force components not usually addressed in HSM implementation-related presentations or meetings.

Project Objective and Scope
The objectives of scan were to a) evaluate the processes, job aids/
tools, workforce training, and manner in which state transportation agencies have implemented and integrated the HSM into
performance-based processes in planning, design, and operations;
b) learn the practices of state transportation agencies which have
most comprehensively implemented the HSM; and c) disseminate
information about leading practices in use of the HSM to other
transportation agencies to help them reduce the number of traffic
fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads and make informed
decisions to reduce project and operating costs.

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While the goal of the project was to learn about leading
practices in the use of the HSM, discussions with participating
agencies focused on broader concepts of performance-based
approaches to quantifying safety performance. In many cases, the
state transportation agencies implemented procedures as described
in the HSM, but in other cases the agencies used concepts,
principles, and performance-based statistical approaches described
in the HSM and incorporated them into tools or projects in various
ways to inform decisions. Thus, the scope of this scan extends
beyond analysis procedures directly described in the HSM and
addresses in a broader sense performance-based advanced safety
analysis procedures (PBASAPs) to facilitate improved decision
making. Discussions with state transportation agencies during the
scan centered around seven topic areas of interest:
1.	 Status/Policy
2.	 Training
3.	 Technical Functions
4.	 Data
5.	 Culture
6.	 Information Dissemination
7.	 Achieving Performance
Prior to meeting with the state transportation agencies, the Scan
Team distributed a list of questions to the participating agencies to
prepare for the scan.
The primary audience for the results of the scan are state
transportation agencies; but local transportation agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), FHWA, and AASHTO will
also benefit. Transportation agencies and MPOs in the early stages
of implementing the HSM (or contemplating how to implement the
HSM) will be able to use the results of this scan to help them integrate
data-driven, performance-based processes into their policies and
programs. In addition, AASHTO and FHWA will be able to use the
results of this scan to assist agencies in implementing the HSM.

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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
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MOBILIT Y PL ANNING
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS)
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In 2017, the Scan Team met with 10 U.S. state transportation
agencies to evaluate how the agencies have implemented and
integrated the HSM into performance-based processes in the areas
of planning, design, and operations. The 10 state transportation
agencies that participated in the scan are considered leaders in HSM
implementation. Five agencies hosted the Scan Team, while five
agencies traveled to meet with the Scan Team remotely at one of the
host agency locations (Figure 1). The agencies that participated in
the scan included:
ƒ	 Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT)
ƒ	 Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
ƒ	 Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
ƒ	 Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
(LADOTD)


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