Comprehensive safety document/product.
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Summary
This report addresses the challenge of disseminating road safety information to local governments in North Carolina, which comprises 100 counties and over 800 municipalities. The authors argue that while state agencies like the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) provide top-down roadway improvements, local leaders often lack the specific data and knowledge required to proactively address community-specific safety issues. The primary objective was to create a standardized, user-friendly template for a Comprehensive Safety Document (CSD) that NCDOT could tailor for individual communities, thereby empowering local stakeholders to participate in safety decision-making. To develop these templates, the research team conducted a literature review of existing safety resources from other states and organizations, followed by a market analysis involving telephone interviews with 13 road safety professionals and two focus groups in Randolph County and Kinston. Stakeholder feedback emphasized the need for data presented at a "30,000-foot level" to avoid overwhelming users with technical details. Based on this input, the team developed draft CSDs for Randolph County and Kinston using NCDOT crash data from 2006–2010. The final CSD templates include an estimate of the monetary cost of crashes, crash statistics broken down by driver age, gender, and type (e.g., alcohol-related), maps of crash locations, lists of hazardous locations, and comparisons to statewide averages. Additionally, the project produced a community road safety resources website to provide guidance on education, enforcement, and engineering countermeasures, as well as a marketing plan to help NCDOT sustain and promote the CSDs. The findings highlight that effective local safety planning requires accessible, simplified data that resonates with elected officials and the public. Stakeholders identified key audiences for the CSDs, including Metropolitan and Rural Planning Organizations, law enforcement, public health professionals, and emergency management coordinators. The report notes that presenting crash data in terms of human impact and comparing local rates to state averages helps contextualize the severity of safety problems, preventing smaller communities from underestimating their risks due to lower absolute crash numbers. The significance of this work lies in its provision of a replicable framework for bridging the gap between state-level data and local action. By standardizing the CSD template and accompanying resources, the project enables NCDOT to efficiently distribute tailored safety information to any community in North Carolina. This approach supports a "bottom-up" safety strategy, ensuring that local governments have the evidence-based tools necessary to justify funding, implement countermeasures, and engage the public in reducing traffic injuries and fatalities.
Key finding
The project successfully produced finalized Comprehensive Safety Document templates for Randolph County and Kinston, along with a supporting website and marketing plan, to help local officials understand and address highway safety issues.
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