Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries, and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age: United States, 1995 – 2010 - This brief note provides an overview of 2011 traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities on the nation's highways and compares them with 2010 data.
2. Analysis of Managed Lanes on Freeway Facilities - This report documents and presents the results of a study for evaluating the performance of Managed Lane facilities on freeways.
3. Midsize Cities on the Move: A Look at the Next Generation of Rapid Bus, Bus Rapid Transit, and Streetcar Projects in the United States - This report explores the next generation of transit in midsize cities, with a focus on best practices in transit planning, funding strategies, and actual or projected outcomes.
4. Comparison of national road safety policies and plans (Sign in required) - This report examines the road safety performance of several nations, reviews reported policies and strategies in jurisdictions and attempts to establish linkages between adopted and implemented road safety policies, overarching multi-year strategies and performance outcomes.
5. Asset Sustainability Index: A Proposed Measure for Long-Term Performance - This report examines the concept of asset sustainability metrics. Such metrics address the long-term performance of highway assets based upon expected expenditure levels. It examines how such metrics are used in Australia, Britain and the private sector. It also reviews asset management data from selected states to illustrate that long-term sustainability metrics could be produced using available US asset management data.
6. Shifting Suburbs: Reinventing Infrastructure for Compact Development - This report highlights how eight suburban redevelopment projects tackled infrastructure challenges, and takes a look at how infrastructure was planned, funded and financed.
7. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Compliance, Safety, Accountability: Evaluating a New Safety Measurement System and Its Implications (Request needed) - This study explores the expected and unexpected consequences of the implementation of Compliance, Safety, Accountability.
   • Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form (Sign in required) - This book visualizes a low-carbon environment in smaller increments by focusing on 12 urban neighborhoods, each covering a comfortable pedestrian walk zone of approximately 125 acres.