Through the rapid evolution of technology, especially in recent years, video-based analytics have emerged as a viable, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution to evaluating our transportation systems. The ability to obtain information about critical conflicts between road users has given us another source of information beyond historic crash data to look at safety risks.
While access to video analytics and critical conflicts has been shown to be valuable to our evaluation of our systems, it has also brought to us another data source to interpret and, by nature of automated processing, a large amount of information to wade through.
This all comes at a very opportune time, during which we have also seen a refocus and redefinition of Vision Zero – elevating to Target and Mission Zero goals for agencies throughout the U.S. and the globe. We have seen an increased focus on proactive safety and the Safe System Approach. While not “new” topics, the emergence of these to common language in many projects, grant requirements, and other funding mechanisms have further elevated their importance in how we achieve our safety goals.
So how do we match the valuable data to these goals efficiently and effectively? What do critical conflicts mean in the context of the Safe System Approach, for example? How will safety analytics result in actual recommendations?
In this virtual event, our VP of Business Development, Karen Giese, P.E., Senior Advisor Michael Griffith, and special guest Ron Knezevich P.E., RSP, Georgia DOT State Safety Engineering Supervisor will share how to identify the most critical elements of your conflict analysis and where they fit into your project workflows and decision-making. We will present real-world examples that showcase agencies utilizing these methods and applying analytics to real decisions along with assessments of those decisions.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what safety analytics are and how to interpret them
- Identify the most critical information in your safety analytics outputs, including trends, scenarios, and conflict types
- How this information helps to identify contributing factors to increased safety risks
- How to apply this to make real, practical decisions to improve your system