Audit report on the City of Granger, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Granger, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Walker, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Walker, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Independence, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Independence, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Wellman, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Wellman, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Atkins, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Atkins, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Disaster Grants – Public Assistance program of the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Disaster Grants – Public Assistance program of the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the City of Stockton for the period July 1, 2004 to October 31, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the City of Stockton for the period July 1, 2004 to October 31, 2010

Audit report on the City of Palo, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Palo, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Olin, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Olin, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Stockton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Stockton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the City of Garner for the period January 1, 2006 through February 22, 2011

Report on a special investigation of the City of Garner for the period January 1, 2006 through February 22, 2011

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

A Transportation Safety Planning Tool for the City of Ames, August 2011

The historically-reactive approach to identifying safety problems and mitigating them involves selecting black spots or hot spots by ranking locations based on crash frequency and severity. The approach focuses mainly on the corridor level without taking the exposure rate (vehicle miles traveled) and socio-demographics information of the study area, which are very important in the transportation planning process, into consideration. A larger study analysis unit at the Transportation Analysis Zone (TAZ) level or the network planning level should be used to address the needs of development of the community in the future and incorporate safety into the long-range transportation planning process. In this study, existing planning tools (such as the PLANSAFE models presented in NCHRP Report 546) were evaluated for forecasting safety in small and medium-sized communities, particularly as related to changes in socio-demographics characteristics, traffic demand, road network, and countermeasures. The research also evaluated the applicability of the Empirical Bayes (EB) method to network-level analysis. In addition, application of the United States Road Assessment Program (usRAP) protocols at the local urban road network level was investigated. This research evaluated the applicability of these three methods for the City of Ames, Iowa. The outcome of this research is a systematic process and framework for considering road safety issues explicitly in the small and medium-sized community transportation planning process and for quantifying the safety impacts of new developments and policy programs. More specifically, quantitative safety may be incorporated into the planning process, through effective visualization and increased awareness of safety issues (usRAP), the identification of high-risk locations with potential for improvement, (usRAP maps and EB), countermeasures for high-risk locations (EB before and after study and PLANSAFE), and socio-economic and demographic induced changes at the planning-level (PLANSAFE).

Audit report on the City of St. Charles, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of St. Charles, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010