Best Practices in Roadway Safety

Every other year, the National Roadway Safety Awards Program solicits submissions of best practices in the three areas of recognition required for eligibility. This biennial program, co-sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the Roadway Safety Foundation, produces a Best Practices Guide of award winners and other honorable mention programs that are recognized for meeting roadway safety challenges and effecting positive changes to roadway safety through their programs.

In this section of the RSF web site you’ll find a cumulative listing of Best Practices of award winning programs that may have application in your local or state. Learn more about the programs by contacting the individuals or offices listed (noted in the year of publication and subject to change).

The programs are divided into three categories and contain a description of the project, pertinent contact information (accurate at the time of publication), and the year it was recognized with a National Roadway Safety Award.

For more details about all programs, including honorable mention awardees not listed here, consult each of the Best Practice Guides for years 2007, 2005, 2003 at www.roadwaysafetyawards.org.

Operational Improvements

Activities, other than physical improvements, that contribute to the safe operation and maintenance of the highway facility: operational and/or management improvements for work zone safety; innovative use of signs, pavement markings, changeable signs, and new technologies; public information campaigns; multidisciplinary activities, such as road safety audits, to address roadway safety problems; new or unique operations and maintenance policies that improve safety. Read more.

Program Planning, Development & Evaluation

Processes and activities addressing the safety needs of spot locations, corridors, and/or communities: effective use of crash location identification and analysis; effective integration of safety into Metropolitan and State planning processes; utilizing evaluations to produce policies, processes, and practices that improve safety. Read More.

Infrastructure Improvements

Physical improvements to the highway or roadside: improved highway design; Providing safer roadsides by: obstacle removal, relocation, replacement, or shielding, or regrading of side slopes; Intersection improvements: improved signs, markings, signals and turn lanes. Read More.