Tennessee’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Driving Down Fatalities

1. DRAFT

2. Tennessee’sStrategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)Driving Down Fatalities

3. Why and What? • Its Mandated for funding • Strategy, activity or project • It is a Guide • How to • It is a story • History (where we were) • Possible look into our future • It is a Plan to reduce the number of lives lost, human suffering, and the economic costs associated with motor vehicle crashes in Tennessee

4. 2004

5. 2004 MISSION: Through coordination of education, enforcement, engineering, and emergency response initiatives reduce the number of crashes that result in fatalities, injuries, and related economic losses on Tennessee’s roadways. VISION: All roadway users arrive safely at their destination. GOAL: Reduce the fatality rate by 10 percent by the FY 2008-09

6. 2004 • Tennessee was the FIRST State DOT to create a SHSP. • From 1998 to 2002, Tennessee experienced an annual average of more than 170,000 reported traffic crashes. In 2002, 74,814 injuries and 1,175 fatalities occurred on Tennessee’s roads. • In 2013, Tennessee experienced ~220,000 reported traffic crashes, 62,721 injuries and 995 fatalities

7. 2014

8. 2014 VISION: Federal, state, and local agencies, civic groups, and private industries unified as safety partners and all working together toward zero fatalities and serious injuries on Tennessee roadways. MISSION: Using education, enforcement, engineering, and emergency response initiatives, work toward zero deaths and serious injuries by reducing the number and severity of crashes on Tennessee’s roadways. GOALS:  Fatalities: Reduce the number of fatalities by 10% within the next five years.  Fatality Rate: Reduce the rate of fatalities by 10% within the next five years.  Serious Injuries: Reduce the current trend of increasing serious injuries by not exceeding the 2012 total value of 7,574 as an average over the next five years.  Serious Injury Rate: Reduce the current trend of an increasing serious injury rate by not exceeding the 2012 total value of 10.65 serious injuries per hundred million vehicle miles traveled as an average over the next five years.

9. Reduce Fatalities

10. Reduce Serious Injuries

11. What’s New • Meets MAP-21 requirements • Reduce Fatalities and Serious Injuries • Past Performances • Towards Zero Deaths (1 of 36 states) • Captured Emphasis Area groups (data driven) • Infrastructure Improvements • Driver Behavior • Vulnerable Road Users • Operational Improvements • Organizational Structure to define responsibilities • Illustration trend lines and projections

12. What’s New • 5 year comparison

13. Crash Type %’s

14. Safety Partners Steering Committee • Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) • Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) • Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) • Governor’s Highway Safety Office (GHSO) • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) • Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) • Tennessee Regional Safety Council (TRSC) • Tennessee Transportation Assistance Program (TTAP) • American Automobile Association (AAA) Source: Kentucky Strategic Highway Safety Plan 2011-2014

15. Safety Partners Additional Safety Partners • Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) • Tennessee Sheriffs' Association (TSA) • Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police (TACP) • Motor Cycle Awareness Foundation of Tennessee (MAFT) • Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH) • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) • Tennessee Trucking Association (TTA) • AARP • Insurers of Tennessee • Tennessee Education Association (TEA) • Rural Planning Organizations (RPO) • Tennessee District Attorney General’s Office • Safe Routes to School National Partnership – Tennessee Network Source: Kentucky Strategic Highway Safety Plan 2011-2014

16. Emphasis Areas Suggested Emphasis Areas • Traffic Records • Crash • Drivers License • Vehicle Registration • Motor Carrier Safety • Infrastructure Improvements • Intersections • Lane Departure • R.R. Crossings • Vulnerable Road Users • Bike/Pedestrian • Motorcycles • Senior Drivers • Driver Behavior • Operational Improvements • Incident Management • Work Zone Safety • Congestion Management Current Emphasis Areas • Crash Data • Lane Departures • Intersections • Work Zone Safety • Motor Carrier Safety • Driver Behavior • Legislation

17. Organizational Structure and Emphasis Area Teams Safety Partners Technical Group Driver Behavior Infrastructure Improvements Traffic Records Motor Carrier Safety Vulnerable Road Users Operational Improvements Brad Freeze Jon Dierberger Chris Osbourn Jessica Wilson Kendall Poole Brian Hurst

18. Organizational Structure and Emphasis Area Teams Governor TDOT Commissioner FHWA Review/Approval TDOT Executive Leaders Steering Committee Co-Chairs Safety Partners Emphasis Areas Traffic Records TDOS Safety Traffic Records Systems Chris Osbourn Motor Carrier Safety FMCSA Jon Dierberger Infrastructure Improvements TDOT Project Safety Office Brian Hurst Driver Behavior GHSO Kendall Poole Vulnerable Users TDOT Multimodal Jessica Wilson Operational Improvements TDOT Traffic Operations Brad Freeze

19. Strategy/Countermeasure Example Source: Pennsylvania Strategic Highway Safety Plan 2012

20. Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)2014 UpdateMaking Tennessee’s Highways Safer Brian Hurst, TDOT Project Safety Office