The Quantifying Safety in the Roadway Safety Management Process guide describes and illustrates opportunities to incorporate the latest tools and techniques to quantify safety in the roadway safety management process. The target audience includes safety program managers and safety analysts. The purpose of this guide is to help raise awareness of opportunities to apply crash modification factors (CMFs) in the roadway safety management process. The objectives are to 1) identify opportunities to apply CMFs in the various steps of the safety management process, 2) describe the process of applying CMFs to quantify safety, and 3) explain potential challenges related to the application of CMFs and opportunities to overcome those challenges. Readers will better understand the purpose of CMFs and how they can be applied in the roadway safety management process. (Crash modification factors (CMFs) support a number of safety-related activities in the project development process. The CMFs in Practice series includes five separate guides that identify opportunities to consider and quantify safety in specific activities, including roadway safety management processes, road safety audits, design decisions and exceptions, development and analysis of alternatives, and value engineering. The purpose of the CMFs in Practice series is to illustrate the value of CMFs in these five activities and demonstrate practical application of CMFs.) (Author/publisher)
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