By implementing a comprehensive proactive safety analysis approach, agencies will likely identify more
potential safety projects than they can fund and deliver. It will be important for an agency to prioritize
their projects internally before funding is sought. It is not uncommon for projects to have a B/C ratio as
low as 0.1 or as high as 100. Once the relative cost effectiveness of an agency’s potential projects has
been established, the projects with low to mid‐ranged B/C ratios should be reassessed. Projects with
very low initial B/C ratios may be dropped while projects with low to mid ranged B/C ratios may be
redefined by changing the limits of the proposed improvements to focus on higher crash locations or
incorporating lower‐cost countermeasures. This reiterative process is illustrated in Figure 1 in Section 1
of this document.