Central Oregon Series on Transportation

Central Oregon Transportation Safety Forum

Kittelson & Associates, Inc., in conjunction with the City of Bend and ODOT Region 4, invite you to join us in Bend for a discussion on traffic safety management. The Central Oregon Transportation Safety Forum will have two main points of focus:

1)Introduce and demonstrate how quantitative, data-driven analysis methods can be used to cost-effectively guide decision making at network, corridor, and intersection levels. 2)Highlight highway safety provisions provided in Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and how those changes may be incorporated by ODOT Region 4.

The forum agenda is tentatively scheduled to address these two main topics with a brief presentation and round-table discussion that will address the following questions:

• What are key elements of a performance-based approach to safety management at network, corridor, and intersection levels?
• What tools and resources are available to support this approach?
• How have City of Bend and Clackamas County benefitted from implementing performance-based safety management programs?
• How will MAP 21 enhance highway safety?
• How will MAP 21 change how ODOT allocated safety funds among Region 4?
• What barriers exist to update current programs to reflect recent advancements?
• What shortfalls remain in the methods that could limit results?