SMSS – A Software Package for Highway Safety Management in Indiana, 2004

 

The Safety Management System Software (SMSS v1.0) is a safety investment planning tool that enables decision makers to

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1. Monitor current safety performance of the road network.

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2. Identify current and future candidate locations within the network that will require safety improvements

 

3. Identify system-wide safety needs for existing road sections at the current time and also in the future.

 

4. Select the most suitable safety project to implement at an identified candidate location

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5. Develop a multi-year safety investment strategy within budgetary constraints over a planning horizon.

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6. Determine the impact of various funding levels on system-wide safety.

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This software was developed as a stand-alone program for both project and network level analysis using Microsoft Visual Basic.Net platform. The software uses the OptiMax 2000® component library from Maximal software for the optimization routines that allow Mathematical Programming Language (MPL) models to be integrated seamlessly and directly into object-oriented programming languages such as Visual Basic.