23 C.F.R. § 924.9 Planning.
Title 23 - Highways
(a) The planning component of the highway safety improvement program shall incorporate: (1) A process for collecting and maintaining a record of accident, traffic, and highway data, including, for railroad-highway grade crossings, the characteristics of both highway and train traffic; (2) A process for analyzing available data to identify highway locations, sections and elements determined to be hazardous on the basis of accident experience or accident potential; (3) A process for conducting engineering studies of hazardous locations, sections, and elements to develop highway safety improvement projects as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101(a); and (4) A process for establishing priorities for implementing highway safety improvement, projects, considering: (i) The potential reduction in the number and/or severity of accidents, (ii) The cost of the projects and the resources available, (iii) The relative hazard of public railroad-highway grade crossings based on a hazard index formula, (iv) Onsite inspection of public grade crossings, (v) The potential danger to large numbers of people at public grade crossings used on a regular basis by passenger trains, school buses, transit buses, pedestrians, bicyclists, or by trains and/or motor vehicles carrying hazardous materials, and (vi) Other criteria as appropriate in each State. (b) In planning a program of safety improvement projects at railroad-highway grade crossings, special emphasis shall be given to the legislative requirement that all public crossings be provided with standard signing. (c) The planning component of the highway safety improvement program may be financed with funds made available through 23 U.S.C. 402, 307(c), and, where applicable, 104(f).
Title 23: Highways
PART 924—HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
§ 924.9 Planning.
