Intersection Safety, ECHS, Committees,Traffic Engineering, NCDOT

Advance Street Name Plaques/Signage for Improved Driver Navigation
Description:	Provide street name signs in advance of select intersections to assist motorist with proper lane selection to avoid last minute, erratic maneuvers.
Group Lead:	Tony Wyatt, NCDOT - Traffic Engineering
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Notes:	The intent of this strategy is to provide advance information at select locations that will help direct the motorist and re-assure the navigating motorist. Lane selection and maneuvers should take place in advance of an intersection thereby reducing vehicular conflicts and friction that often occurs when an operator fails to recognize they have reached their destination. The operator may then attempt a last second lane change or misses the turn entirely and then resorts to a more difficult legal or illegal recovery maneuver beyond the intersection. This strategy targets increasing safety for very experienced, distracted and less familiar drivers.
Status:	Enabling Automated Electronic Enforcement and or Monitoring at North Carolina Intersections.

Enabling Automated Electronic Enforcement and or Monitoring at North Carolina Intersections
Description:	This strategy would allow use of automated enforcement/monitoring at intersection locations within North Carolina with a demonstrated need.
Group Lead:	Tony Wyatt, NCDOT - Traffic Engineering
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Notes:	One critical tool that is missing from North Carolina's Overall Safety Toolbox is the Automated Electronic Enforcement and Monitoring capability. Individual Municipalities have passed enabling legislation to allow the use of Red Light Enforcement Cameras at intersections within those municipalities, however there is no such enabling authority for the State to utilize these automated enforcement and safety monitoring tools at the thousands of intersections outside municipal limits or within municipalities that have not yet been able to sponsor and pass enabling legislation.
Status:	Presented to the ECHS at the October 24, 2006 meeting. Committee has concerns about usage, placement and cost and has asked the group to research further.
Evaluation:	Awaiting sufficient data