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Toll Facility Safety Study Report to Congress found in Appendix A. The study team thanks the panel for their leadership, guidance, and support. 1.5 Roadmap to the Report Following the introduction, this report first presents background information on the methodology used to conduct the study (Section 2). The report then presents the findings of the study in terms of the two major objectives for determining the safety of toll facilities, as required by the legislation (in Sections 3 and 4). Section 3 presents the findings of a review of accident and injury data while Section 4 presents a summary of the findings that address the objective of gaining a better understanding of the safety of toll plazas. The report concludes with a summary of the findings presented in Section 5. Appendices provide further documentation on the study activities as follows: Appendix A provides a list of the panel members and the agencies that participated in the study; Appendices B through E provide the detailed findings of each of the various data gathering activities; Appendix F provides information on additional safety strategies that were identified throughout this study that are not highway-related and Appendix G provides the ratings from the agency workshop held as part of this study. Finally Appendix H summarizes workshop participants’ thoughts on each of the strategies uncovered throughout the course of this study. Introduction Page 4
Toll Facility Safety Study Report to Congress 2 Study Methodology To address the first objective of this effort, which was to study the incidence of accidents and injuries in the vicinity of highway toll collection facilities, the team gathered and analyzed available data on accidents and injuries. The approach to this activity is presented later in this section, and the findings of the data analysis are presented in Section 3, Findings – Characteristics of Accidents and Injuries Occurring at Toll Plazas. To address the second objective of this study, which was to study the safety of toll collection facilities for workers and motorists – and to document strategies for improving toll plaza safety, the team again leveraged the literature review and survey to get a sense for safety practices being used across the country. In addition to this, the team conducted a series of telephone interviews with agencies to obtain additional detail on these practices, and also visited a select group of agencies in person. All practices noted through the course of these activities were then synthesized into a series of “strategies,” and the team then validated these strategies in a workshop setting with a panel of 20 representatives from among the Nation’s toll agencies. 3 The approach to the telephone interviews, site visits, and workshop is presented later in this section, and the synthesized findings of these activities are presented [in the form of strategies to improve safety at toll plazas] in Section 4, Findings – Factors Affecting Safety at Toll Plazas and in Appendices F and H. 2.1 Literature Review To begin this study, the team performed a literature review to document existing information about applicable standards and practices of highway toll collection facilities with regard to safety. The findings of the literature review are provided for reference in Appendix B. 2.2 Agency Survey The next information-gathering activity conducted as part of this study was a nationwide survey of toll agencies. The survey was designed to gather high-level information about perceived factors that contribute to crashes and worker injuries at toll collection facilities, to gather information that would be helpful to the study team in identifying agencies that have accident and injury data, and to aid the study team in selecting the most representative agencies for inclusion in the subsequent site visits. The IBTTA distributed the survey electronically to its 40 active toll agency members in the United States, and out of the 40 distributed surveys, 27 toll agencies responded, for a response rate of 67.5 percent. The survey instrument and survey findings are provided in Appendix C. 2.3 Accident/Injury Data To further understand the safety of toll plazas, the team sought to collect and analyze 5 years of vehicular crash and worker injury data from a representative sample of toll agencies from across the United States. Initially, the study team sought data from agencies representing a mix of 3 A complete list of the workshop participants can be found in Appendix A. Study Methodology Page 5
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