Accelerating solutions for highway safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity
Innovation in Lean Times
SHRP 2 Origin & Philosophy
• Needs identified by State DOT and industry
leaders—driven by customer-oriented goals:
– Make highways safer: revolutionary change
– Fix highways: address epidemic of aging
infrastructure
– Reduce congestion: increase physical and
operational capacity
• Success requires non-traditional approach:
– Multiple disciplines
– Collaboration with non-DOT stakeholders
– Portfolio: from new knowledge to practical tools to
allow existing innovations to be more widely used
Four Focus Areas
• Safety: fielding the largest-ever naturalistic
driving study to reduce crashes and save lives
through understanding driver behavior
• Renewal: making rapid, innovative
construction possible for “ordinary” projects
• Reliability: Providing management and
technical tools to reduce congestion through
operations
• Capacity: Systematizing collaborative decision
making to achieve better, faster project
decisions
Safety: Strategic Rationale
• Driver behavior is key:
– Primary factor in two-thirds of crashes
– Contributing factor in more than 90% of crashes
– Hardest to study; the thing we know the least about
• Opportunity: Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS):
– Miniaturized sensor technologies & increased
computing capacity: can observe real-world driving
– Method proven with 100 car study at VA Tech
– Crash, pre-crash, near-crash, and “normal” driving data
• SHRP 2 scales up NDS for more robust results
– 3000+ drivers, 6 sites, all ages
– Data to be available for other researchers for decades
Camera Image Samples
Source: VTTI
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Safety Highlights
• Progress on data collection:
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3,100 participants so far
4.3 million trips; 5 veh-yrs of data per day
12,500 center-line miles of roadway data
Approval to collect cell phone records and
“supplemental” data
• First three analysis projects underway
• Interest in using data from outside of SHRP
2 (FHWA, NHTSA, auto mfrs, academics,
IIHS, AAA FTS, etc.)
Initial Analysis Projects
• Rural 2-lane curves – Iowa State University
– Ex. App : more cost-effective roadway
measures to prevent crashes
• Offset left-turn bays – MRI Global
– Ex. App: cost-effective intersection design
• Driver inattention – SAFER, Chalmers Univ.
– Ex. App: vehicle technology to track driver
attention, warn distracted drivers
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Renewal: Strategic Rationale
• Facilities are aging, users depend on them:
– Renew infrastructure quickly
– Have minimal impact on users
– Produce long-lasting facilities
• We know how to do this—on special projects
• What keeps us from doing it consistently
across the system?
– Lack of standard methods, specs
– Lack of reliable performance/usage information
– Human/institutional challenges
• SHRP 2 seeks to overcome these obstacles
Priority Renewal Projects
• Bridges
– R04 Bridge Designs for Rapid Renewal
– R19A Bridges Beyond 100 Years
• Pavements
• R05 Modular Pavement Solutions
• R21 Composite Pavement Systems
• R23 Long-Life Pavements
• R26 Preservation on High Volume Roadways
Priority Renewal Projects
• Project Management Tools
– R07 Performance Specifications for Rapid Renewal
– R09 Managing Risk in Rapid Renewal Contracts
– R10 Managing Complex Projects
• Non-Destructive Testing
– R06 Web Tool for Non-Destructive Testing
• Utilities and Railroads
– R15B Integrating Utility/Transportation
– R16 Railroad Agreements
Reliability & Capacity
Capacity tackles
recurring congestion
Reliability tackles
nonrecurring congestion
Reliability Strategic Rationale
• Nonrecurring events account for more
than half of congestion
– Impact of these events on users is reduced
travel time reliability (TTR)
– TTR is valuable to users
– TTR is a good tool to measure performance and
develop and target improvements
• What do we need to effectively use TTR?
– Ways to measure and monitor TTR
– Integration of TTR into modeling, planning,
programming, and design.
– Ops-oriented business practices, training
Priority Reliability Projects
• L12 Training for Traffic Incident Responders
• Organizing for Reliability
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L31
L17
L06
L01
CEO Workshop on Operations
Knowledge Transfer System
Organizing Agencies for Systems Operations and Mgt.
Business Processes for Reliability
• Reliability Analysis Tools
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L02
L05
L07
L08
Monitoring Programs for Reliability
Planning/Programming for Reliability
Reliability by Design
Reliability in the Highway Capacity Manual
• L36 Regional Operations Forum
Capacity Strategic Rationale
• Sometimes you just need more highway
• Why don’t we get it when we need it?
– Multiple independent decision points that must
collectively satisfy a range of goals: engineering,
economic, environmental, community
– Decisions tend to be “lost” or revisited, which
can cause opposition and delay
• Facilitate and expedite key decisions: get
the right information to the right people at
the right time, avoid re-do loops
Priority Capacity Projects
• C06 Integrating Ecosystem & Highway Planning
• TCAPP
– C01 TCAPP
– C02 Performance Measures
– C19 Expedited Project Delivery
• Economic Impact Tools
– C03 Economic Impact Case Studies
– C11 Economic Impact Analysis Tools
• C10 Travel Demand and Network Models
• C15 Freight Planning Guide
Research to Implementation
Research
Research
responds to
known
transportation
challenges
Development
A research
product
emerges and is
refined through
pilots and other
activities
Potential
implementation
explored
through
knowledge
transfer
Implementation
Partner
agencies select,
prioritize, and
prepare product
for
implementation
Product is
marketed to
users and
integrated into
standard
practice
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MAP 21 and SHRP 2
• MAP 21 authorized funding for SHRP 2 implementation
• $11 million of additional FFY 2012 funding
• FFY 2013 and 2014 funding had to come from Statewide
Planning and Research (SPR) funds agreed to by 3/4 of
the states
• 4% of SPR funds being used for SHRP 2 implementation
• FHWA is providing additional funding
• Funding for implementation more than doubled to $169
million
• FHWA and AASHTO have developed a new
implementation plan
• More products were added, as well as funding added for
products already in the plan
SHRP2
SHRP2 Implementation
Assistance Program
FHWA Implementation Assistance
Program
Opportunities for implementation assistance
• Proof of Concept Pilots
• Lead Adopter Incentives
• User Incentives
Timeline
• Application process through FHWA
– First round solicitation of interest ended March 22,
2013
– Reviews and awards announced on Friday, May 3
– Second round underway
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Products Included in First Round of
Implementation Funding Assistance
Capacity
• Implementing Eco-Logical (C06)
Renewal
• Next-Generation Project Management Tools (2
products)
– Managing Risk in Rapid Construction
Projects(R09)
– Managing Complex Projects (R10)
• Bridge Designs for Rapid Renewal (R04)
• Preservation on High-Volume Roadways (R26)
Reliability
• Organizing for Reliability Tools (L01/L06)
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Implementation Opportunities
• 34 States and the District of Columbia
• 108 different transportation projects
– Two proof of concept pilots
– 74 lead adopter incentives
– 24 user incentives
– Limited technical assistance
for 8 States
7/11/2016
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Products Included in Second Round
of Implementation Assistance
Capacity
• Expedited Project Delivery (C19)
Renewal
• Performance Specs for Rapid Renewal (R07)
• Managing Risk in Rapid Construction Projects
(R09)
• Railroad Agreements (R16)
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SHRP2 on the Web
• SHRP2 @AASHTO
– http://SHRP2.transportation.org
– SHRP2 product fact sheets and
collateral
– Focus on AASHTO members
• SHRP2@ TRB
www.TRB.org/SHRP2
Comprehensive info about research
phase
• goSHRP2 @ FHWA
www.fhwa.dot.gov/goSHRP2
– Information clearinghouse for
SHRP2 implementation phase
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– Links to other SHRP2 websites