| Brian Mayhew, PE - Traffic Safety Systems Engineer
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Mission Statement: The mission of Traffic Safety Systems is to reduce the number and severity of crashes and reduce the crash potential on all of North Carolina's roadways by implementing safety in the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation phases of the highway program.
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| Highway Safety Improvement Program Group: |
| Stephen Lowry , PE - Group Head
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Group Overview: The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Group focuses on potentially hazardous locations and hazardous features analysis. The Traffic Safety Unit produces a Potentially Hazardous Location listing to inventory hazardous locations on North Carolina roads. These locations are submitted to field engineers for on-site investigation, further analysis, and recommendation of engineering countermeasures to address the safety problems. Included in the safety program are locations with crashes involving intersections, interchanges, bridges, pedestrians, wet pavement conditions, and night-time crashes.
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| Primary Responsibilities: |
- Provides customers with current and timely highway safety analyses and other pertinent information
- Manage the state's HSIP
- Research, develop, and implement new or revised safety warrants and special projects
- Conduct Road Safety Audit Reviews of roadways experiencing a high number of severe crashes
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| Primary Customers: |
- Regional Traffic Engineering Staff
- Highway Division Staff
- Transportation Mobility and Safety Division Staff
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| Safety Evaluation Group: |
| Shawn A. Troy, PE - Group Head
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Group Overview: The Safety Evaluation Group conducts engineering evaluations of completed safety
projects and programs to determine their effectiveness in reducing the frequency and
severity of motor vehicle crashes, the improvement in mobility and to provide engineering tools to better understand the effects of safety projects and programs.
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| Safety Planning Group: |
| Christopher J. Oliver, PE - Group Head
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Group Overview: The Safety Planning Group performs highway safety analyses in response to requests from engineers, decision makers, and concerned citizens. SPG provides safety expertise so that North Carolina Department of Transportation does not plan, design, or build new safety problems.
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| Primary Responsibilities: |
- Provide a Comprehensive Highway Safety Document to be incorporated into the initial stages of the Planning Process
- Provide highway safety information, analyses and expertise to be incorporated in the project development, environmental impact statements and other planning documents completed by NCDOT and contractors
- Work with local municipalities, MPOs, RPOs, transportation planners and other public officials to provide safety information, analyses and expertise to help promote highway safety at all levels of government
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| Primary Customers: |
- North Carolina Department of Transportation
- Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)
- Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs)
- News Media
- General Public
- Consulting Firms
- Private Investigators and Law Enforcement
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NC DOT
NC DOH
NC GOV
