A Traffic Safety Engineer is committed to obtaining safety goals through continuous improvement of transportation planning, design, operations, and safety investment strategies. Traffic Safety Engineers utilize multiple strategies to integrate safety data and analysis into transportation decision-making processes. They apply their knowledge of systemic safety principles to analyze, assess, and present safety data, and to plan, implement, and evaluate road safety programs and processes.
Other responsibilities typically include:
- Provide direction on development of safety-focused policies and guidelines through collaboration with law enforcement agencies, safety organizations, and other public stakeholders.
- Analyze, synthesize, and present road safety data to relevant stakeholders to aid safety-focused decision making and investments, including through the development of models and simulations.
- Ensure that transportation plans, roadway designs, and traffic operations and management strategies comply with established safety guidelines and reflect current best practices related to safety performance measures.
- Apply analytical, modeling, and simulation skills as well as qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to develop safety solutions.