The Highway Safety Performance and Safety Data and Analysis Committees merged into the Safety Performance and Analysis Committee. We have a brand new website located here: https://www.trbacs20.org.
FHWA Hosts NHI Course on Developing Quality CMFs (April)
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FHWA will be hosting the NHI Course on Developing Quality CMFs – course registration is now open. Registration is open on a first come, first serve basis, and is limited to one representative per agency for now. Access the registration page via the NHI Website at NHI and search for course number 380119. Access the course schedule here: PDF.
Registration for this course requires a commitment from participants to complete the required self-paced study and actively participate in the live virtual sessions. Karen Scurry from FHWA indicated that, if this commitment can’t be made for the spring dates, that FHWA will continue to offer this course on a regular basis so there will be other future opportunities. We will broadcast the availability of future opportunities on our committee website & via Twitter.
Ron Pfefer Outstanding Paper Award 2019
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Join us in congratulating the winners of the 2019 Ron Pfefer Outstanding Paper Award: Wesley Kumfer, David Harkey, Bo Lan, Raghavan Srinivasan, Daniel Carter, Anusha Patel Nujjetty, Ana Maria Eigen, and Carol Tan for their paper titled “Identification of Critical Intersection Angle through Crash Modification Functions”. Access the paper here.
TRB 2020 Annual Meeting
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The Annual TRB Meeting is in full swing. We are live tweeting events (@TRBANB25). Follow us and feel free to tag us – be sure to tag all your your tweets with the meeting hashtag #TRBAM (the general annual meeting handle).
We have some goodies for download as you prepare for our Wednesday and Thursday meetings (anyone is welcome):
- The Synthesis Report on Safety-Related Papers at #TRBAM 2020 (PDF)
- A list of our sponsored events (PDF)
- Our meeting agendas
The TRB 2020 mobile apps are also now available and it syncs with the TRB Interactive Conference Program – read more here: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/MobileApp.aspx
TRB Annual Meeting 2021
The new TRB ACS20 committee and subcommittees are meeting at the annual meeting in 2021, and we are hosting various sessions:
Meetings:
- TRB Safety Performance Analysis Committee Meeting: January 14
- Safety Analytical Methods Subcommittee (ACS20(1)): January 8
- User Liaison Subcommittee (ACS20(2)): January 8
- Surrogate Safety Measures Subcommittee (ACS20(3)): January 13
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Analysis Subcommittee: January 13
Sessions:
- 1143: Safety Performance and Analysis Doctoral Student Competition – January 26
- 1169: Safety Performance and Analysis: Act 1: Pedestrians, Bicyclists, E-bikes, and Couriers
- 1202 Safety Performance and Analysis Act 2: Surrogates, Conflicts, and Other Safety Data
- 1295 Safety Performance and Analysis Act 3: Evaluations, SPFs, and CMFs
- 1327 Safety Performance and Analysis Act 4: Methods and Models
The merged committee will have a midyear meeting!
In April 2020, TRBANB25 (Highway Safety Performance) and TRB ANB20 (Safety, Data, and Evaluation) are merging into ACS20 Safety Performance Analysis (draft committee name). This is part of the larger strategic realignment that TRB is making to (read more). This new (merged) committee will have a midyear meeting. Please plan to join us from June 2 to 4, 2020 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. The meeting will start on June 2nd at 8am through noon June 4th. More details forthcoming!
6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design
Save the date: 28 June – 1 July 2020, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. If you are active on Twitter or LinkedIn, please help spread the word about this amazing conference.
Ron Pfefer Outstanding Paper Award 2018
Join us in congratulating Raghavan (Srini) Srinivasan, Daniel Carter, Craig Lyon, and Matthew Albee, the recipients of the Ron Pfefer Best Paper Award for 2019, for their paper titled ‘A Before-After Evaluation of the Realignment of Horizontal Curves on Two Lane Rural Roads, presented by Karen Dixon, our chair.
Visit https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/036119811875801 for a copy of the paper.
Propose new topics for the 2020 NCHRP Synthesis Program by Feb 17, 2020
TRB invites you to propose a new NCHRP Synthesis topic for the 2020 program. Submissions are due by February 17, 2020. Create and submit a topic at the New Topic Submission Web Portal. For more information about submitting a topic suggestion, please visit Submitting New Synthesis Topics.
Ron Pfefer Outstanding Paper Award 2017
Join us in congratulating the winners of the first Ron Pfefer Best Paper Award: Doug Harwood, Darren Torbic, and Karen Bauer for their paper titled: “Application of Highway Safety Manual Method for Ramp Crash Prediction to Loop and Diamond Ramps”. Visit https://trid.trb.org/View/1437933 to access the paper.
