Technical Report Documentation Page

1. Report No.

FHWA-HOP-11-033

2. Government Accession No.

3. Recipient's Catalog No.

4. Title and Subtitle

A PRIMER ON WORK ZONE SAFETY AND MOBILITY PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

5. Report Date

September 2011

6. Performing Organization Code

7. Author(s)

Gerald L. Ullman and Timothy J. Lomax – TTI
Tracy Scriba – FHWA

8. Performing Organization Report No.

9. Performing Organization Name and Address

Texas Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
College Station, Texas 77843-3135

10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)

11. Contract or Grant No.

DTFH61-06-D-00007

12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Operations
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590

13. Type of Report and Period Covered

14. Sponsoring Agency Code

15. Supplementary Notes

Project Leader: Tracy Scriba, FHWA.
Project carried out under contract to Battelle for the FHWA Office of Operations.

16. Abstract

This primer has been developed to assist agencies in establishing and monitoring a useful set of work zone safety and mobility performance measures. Work zone performance measures are metrics that help to quantify how work zones impact travelers, residents, businesses and workers. Work zone performance measures help agencies improve their understanding of how their decisions during planning, design, and construction affect work zone safety and mobility, and thus can help improve how they make decisions for future work zones.

The primer describes possible work zone performance measures, and provides guidance to help agencies select and implement measures that make sense for their own work zone programs. The primer outlines the methods and technologies that are available to gather data to monitor the various possible measures and procedures for calculating specific performance measures from different types of work zone traffic monitoring data. The primer also discusses the use of measures across multiple projects to assess an agency’s overall efforts and outcomes against its policies and goals.

17. Key Words

WORK ZONE SAFETY AND MOBILITY, TRAFFIC IMPACTS, PERFORMANCE MEASURES

18. Distribution Statement

No restrictions.

19. Security Classification (of this report)

Unclassified

20. Security Classification (of this page)

Unclassified

21. No of Pages

67

22. Price