Capabilities | Safety

Safety
Workers build and repair roadways.

ARA performs a wide variety of safety-related testing and research in the transportation arena. Specific safety-related capabilities include:

  • Safety management systems
  • Runway safety analysis
  • Work zone safety analysis, including moving and intermittent lane closures
  • Crashworthiness analysis
  • Evaluation of roadside safety appurtenances
  • Institutional issues and business models for accident reduction

ARA offers a broad range of safety-related services for pavements. Our pavement safety expertise includes:

  • Pavement surface characteristics
  • Pavement friction considerations in design and rehabilitation
  • Best practices in texturing of concrete pavements
  • Safety ramifications of the design of flexible and rigid highway pavements

  • Highways For Life Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Highways for LIFE Program
    • Program planning, management and administration
    • Technology transfer
    • Communications
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  • Analysis of Runway Safety AreasAnalysis of Runway Safety Areas
    • Develop a comprehensive, updated and organized database of aircraft overrun and undershoot incidents and accidents
    • Develop an integrated probabilistic approach for modeling the frequency, location and consequences of aircraft accidents in the RSA
    • Identify causal and contributing factors to such events, for which information should be available in accident and incident reports
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  • Airport Safety Management SystemsAirport Safety Management Systems
    • Assess regulations and policy compliance
    • Improve safety management at FAA-governed airports
    • Improve system-wide safety management
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