Transportation Safety

The Impact of Safety

CBB is committed to the importance of safety in the transportation network and understands the impacts it has on communities and its members of all ages and abilities. We put safety at the forefront in every aspect of transportation design. It is the foundation for our work from designing a full highway reconstruction project to determining the location of a new crosswalk. We understand that every detail can make the proposed improvement more intuitive to the user and ultimately safer for everyone. We strive to optimize the design for safety at the core of the design, but also have a toolbox of safety countermeasures that we pull from to help mitigate underlying safety issues. There are countless metrics with which to evaluate a road system: travel time, capacity, safety, etc. However, the most important goal is for road users to get to their destinations safely.

Thorough Safety Recommendations and Evaluations

While numbers and monetary values are assigned to crashes to better facilitate crash evaluation, our team understands that every crash represents a real-life impact to one or more people. With this in mind, we strive to provide thorough safety recommendations and evaluations. We are well versed in all levels of safety analysis and design, from a localized crash analysis at an intersection to expansive network screenings of an entire Metropolitan Planning Organization that includes multiple counties. We have extensive experience in safety evaluations and use an innovative, data driven approach to safety analysis. Our staff is experienced and trained in the HSM Methodologies. We have been working in all the safety analysis software for years including HSM spreadsheets, ISATe, IHSDM and ArcGIS. Finally, we have certified Road Safety Professionals (RSP2I and RSP2IB) so that you can have confidence that all safety results are reliable and accurate.

We have extensive experience with the following safety tasks:

Ball Bank Testing, Curve Inventories, Curve Analysis
Before and After Safety Studies
Crash Data Summary and Analysis
Countermeasure Design
Countermeasure Selection
Innovative Technology Solutions for Safety

Multimodal Safety Evaluations and Design
Network Screening of Crashes
Predictive Analysis, HSM Studies, ISATe, IHSDM
Preparation of Applications for Safety Funds
Roadway, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Safety Audits
Safety Evaluations for Design Exception

Sight Distance Measurements
Sign Retro-reflectivity Analysis
Systematic Safety Study and Improvements
Traffic Calming
Turn Lane Evaluation
Vehicular Speed Studies

I have worked with Lee Cannon and CBB for over 18 years on a whole variety of projects, traffic studies, and comprehensive traffic plan updates. They are our definite “go to” firm for traffic expertise and would highly recommend them. Traffic problems can be quite complex, with many moving parts, often requiring very specific engineering judgement and expertise that CBB has. Of course, being able to communicate these difficult ideas and concepts clearly to decision-makers is also a valued skill set that they have. Lee and his team have been involved in many planning and development projects in O’Fallon, and their expertise and ability to communicate clearly with a wide variety of groups has made them an invaluable resource for us and our decision-makers. Having CBB as our traffic and transportation consultants over almost two decades has been indispensable in helping us plan for our city’s growth and protecting the safety and welfare of our citizens. We would wholeheartedly recommend them.