Task 1: Review of Roadway Safety Planning and Policy Resources The Consultant will review existing legislation, policies, planning priorities, and goal-setting related to roadway safety and eliminating traffic deaths. This task aims to broadly assess existing projects, policies, processes, programs, and funding streams that guide transportation safety improvements. National and State documents can apply to the regional review, while county and local documents will inform county-level assessments for Monmouth County. The Consultant will assemble and conduct a review of existing policies, plans, standards, and processes for identifying, prioritizing, and responding to safety needs, as well as any safety-related local ordinances or existing impediments to implementing safety improvements. This review will include identifying any existing safety-related stakeholder groups or other safety initiatives within the Borough. The review should also include Red Bank's Complete and Green Streets Policy. The review should consist of the Vision Zero Plans that already exist in New Jersey and other best practices examples from around the country. Task 2: Safe System Analysis Using existing and available crash data, and other data as appropriate, the Consultant will identify the locations and types of the most pressing safety issues in Red Bank. The data to be analyzed will primarily include crash locations, causes, and demographics, as well as other data available from the Borough, the NJTPA, or other sources as appropriate. The results of this task will be used to help identify disproportionate crash experiences, including those that impact disadvantaged communities, to inform stakeholders for outreach in Task 3, and to highlight high-crash locations for countermeasure recommendations in Task 4. Data analysis is also integral to setting informed safety priority improvements and performance goals. Task 2 is divided into three parts: a "first cut" to identify crash hotspot locations and/or corridors; a second, more comprehensive data-driven effort to overlay other relevant factors at hotspot locations and corridors; and a third, broader, regional analysis. The first cut will include an demographic analysis to identify disproportionate safety issues in disadvantaged communities. The second analysis may incorporate additional local and regional data, as available, roadway characteristics such as speed limits, road design and conditions, lighting, and land use mix, or other relevant data. The Consultant shall determine relevant datasets for this overlay analysis, in consultation with the Borough. The "third cut" analysis will be regional. It will establish regional baseline data for comparative purposes and summarize the region's current State of transportation safety, including trends, impacts, and performance metrics. Demographic analysis will involve identifying areas considered underserved. Analysis should identify areas within the Borough that are disadvantaged and experience a high number of crashes, which can then be incorporated into subsequent tasks. This analysis should also make use of the US DOT's Equitable Transportation Community Explorer, which identifies communities designated by USDOT as disadvantaged. USDOT guidance encourages the use of the Equitable Transportation Community Explorer.
