Highway Safety Manual (HSM)

You may use the link above to access the Highway Safety Manual. The HSM is being developed by a national task force working under the direction of the Transportation Research Board.  When completed and approved for final publication, the HSM will serve as a useful tool for practitioners in helping them make decisions about transportation safety engineering countermeasures. Publication is anticipated in 2009. The purpose of a HSM is to provide the best factual information and tools in a useful and widely accepted form and to facilitate roadway design and operational decisions based upon explicit consideration of their safety consequences. This manual would greatly strengthen the role of safety in road planning, design, maintenance, construction, and operations decision making. The report will feature:    

           * Synthesis of validated highway research
           * Procedures that are adapted and integrated to practice
           * Analytical tools for predicting impact on road safety



2009 Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Annual Report

This report was submitted to the Florida Division of FHWA in September 2010.  Follow the link to access the final report in Word document format, along with subfolders per district, to access maps showing the location for the Transparency Report.  The Transparency Report contains lists referencing locations for high crash (top 5%) segments and intersections for state-maintained, locally-maintained and High Risk Rural roads.

Crash Analysis Reporting (C.A.R.) Program User Manual - online viewing option (26.2 MB)
(MS-Word format with hyperlinks to access specific content - October 2007 version)

PRINT option of C.A.R. manual in 'pdf' format (736 pages) contains NO hyperlinks  (11.9 MB)

The October 2007 version includes instructions for:

* Detail On-line
* Detail & Summary Reports
* Extract for P.C.
* High Crash Intersections and Segments program
* Average Crash Rates for Intersections & Segments 
* Subset Reports and Analyses
* Location help screens
* Tables report
* All-roads reporting
* System data screens and reports
* Instructions to submit 'long-running' jobs with Class ID "Y"
* Instructions for setting JCL job classes
* Updated appendix with crash report form cross-walk
* Instructions for printing Percent and Density reports
* Appendix on the 'Data Shopper' tool available via Infonet Enterprise Application website



Skid Hazard Reporting (SHR) User Manual  (MS Word format) updated October 2007

The Table of Contents has hyperlinks - place cursor on selected reference line and use "Ctrl" key and then click the mouse button to activate a hyperlink.  (1.4 MB - 46 pages).

PRINT version of SHR User Manual in 'pdf' format  (533 KB)