What will we learn?
By the end of Lesson 7, you should be able to:
- explain how traffic safety analysis is moving beyond traditional approaches which have focused solely on historic crash data;
- navigate the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and perform ad-hoc queries of the data it contains;
- use crash data extracted from FARS or other state crash data systems to visualize and analyze the data in ArcGIS;
- list some of the uses and benefits spatial technologies offer in the area of highway safety;
- describe some of the goals and objectives of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA);
- submit a review of Pennsylvania's 511 Traveler Information System;
- discuss the purpose of the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) and the requirements it imposes on state DOTs;
- share something you learned about one of your classmates and/or some ideas you discussed with a classmate about the content of this week’s lesson.