1. Definition: Nominal Safety An absolute statement about the safety of a location
based only on its adherence to a set of design
standards (safe on paper)
2. The likelihood of a crash 8. The Safe Systems Approach
and its resultant injury em- phasizes the reduction
severity is combi- nation of of which aspect of a crash?
which two factors?
3. What likelihood of death
corre- sponds to a rating
of "6" on
the Maximum Abbreviated
Injury Scale? (MAIS)
4. What does "A" stand for on
the KABCO Scale for Injury
Severity?
5. What are the 3 major
compo- nents of the Driving
Task Model?
6. Obtaining crash records
from a city police
department is an ex- ample
of working with a road
safety partner at which
level?
7. What are the "4 E's" in the
Road Safety Management
approach?
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Deterministic and Stochastic Factors Control, Guidance, Navigation
Local
100%
Engineering, Enforcement, Education, Emergency
Major/Incapacitating Injury Re- sponse
Impact Energy
9. Quality-adjusted life year cost
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In addition to an economic
cost, which other method is
frequently used when
valuing crash cost?
Biking and walking
10. Which mode(s) of travel are
typ- ically considered when
pursuing road safety
strategies that en- courage
"active transportation"?
11. Describe Access Management The systematic control of the location, spacing, desig
and operation of driveways, median openings,
inter- changes, and street connections to a
roadway
12. According to the World 15. What is a piece of "critical
Health Organization, data" for assessing road
approximately how many safety?
people are killed globally in
motor vehicle crashes each
year?
13. Describe the relationship
be- tween Nominal and
Substantive Road Safety
14. According to the HSM, what
hap- pens to the predicted
average fre- quency of single-
vehicle crashes on
urban/suburban roads, as traf-
fic volumes increase?
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1,000,000 Frequency continues to increase, but at a decreasing
rate
A nominally unsafe road can be substantively
safe if it has experienced fewer than expected
crashes over an extended period. Traflc volumes
16. As volume increases, crash frequency increases
and crash severity decreases