AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan

1. AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan The plan was developed with input from a wide range of public and private sector national safety experts in driver, vehicle and highway issues.

2. Strategic Highway Safety Plan THE VISION “A reduction in the fatality rate from 1.5 to 1.0 deaths per 100 MVMT and over 9000 lives saved annually by 2008”

3. Reauthorization -SAFETEA

4. Number of Fatalities is Increasing

5. Wisconsin’s Active Involvement • AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning • Vice Chair: Kenneth J. Leonard, Wisconsin • AASHTO Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety • Doug Thompson, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators Representative • Dave Collins, International Association of Chiefs of Police Representative

6. ISMP Pilot States Strategic Highway Safety Plan Integrated Safety Management Process Data as of 10/20/03

7. NCHRP Report 501 What is the Integrated Safety Management Process? http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_501.pdf

8. What is the ISMP? • The ISMP is a formal process for developing a strategic highway safety plan. • The Implementation Guides are a critical part of the big picture. • A strategic plan is an integrated plan which follows a comprehensive process.

9. The Integrated Safety Management Process (ISMP) • Product of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 17-18(5) - NCHRP Report 501 • An integrated management system to reduce highway injuries and fatalities across a jurisdiction

10. Integration at all Levels • Integration starts at the decision making level with top management of various agencies working together • Integration across 4 E’s – Enforcement, Engineering, Education and Emergency Services • Integration across safety agencies and jurisdictions • Integration during implementation

11. Start with a Vision

17. Implementation Guides provide answers to: • What goals should we set for a particular emphasis area? (85% statewide restraint use by the end of 2004) • What are our priorities for a particular emphasis area? (Infants, young children) • What strategies are available to us for a particular emphasis area? (Education for new mothers at hospitals)

18. Implementation Guides do not provide answers on: • Which emphasis areas to prioritize? • Which combination of strategies to apply? • How to integrate the effort of multiple agencies implementing a single strategy? • How to optimize the implementation of multiple strategies simultaneously? • What level of deployment should be implemented for each strategy?

19. Establishing an ISMP • In order to implement an ISMP, an ISMP must first be established • 10 success factors

20. Success Factors for Establishing an ISMP (1 of 2) • Form the Safety Program Leadership • Determine the coalition’s mission • Create a Memorandum of Understanding • Develop a communication plan • Appraise the existing safety management system

21. Requirements for Establishing an ISMP (2 of 2) • Establish the administrative structure of the ISMP • Appoint an Operations Manager • Assemble the Risk Analysis and Evaluation Group (RAE) • Set a vision • Link databases

22. 1. Form the Safety Program Leadership • Top management of various agencies • Authority to act on behalf of agencies • Responsible for the ISMP • Comprehensive planning process • Selection of emphasis areas • Approval of goals and objectives

23. The Safety Program Leadership Department of Health Metropolitan State Patrol Planning & County Organizations Sheriffs DOT Engineering Governor’s Office of Traffic Safety Driver Bureau Services Other agencies responsible for safety

24. 2. Determine the Coalition’s Mission • Define the purpose • Does not change • Two questions: • What is the purpose? • What are the underlying principles and beliefs? • Reflects the culture

25. 3. Create a Memorandum of Understanding • ISMP needs a Memorandum of Understanding • Purpose • Outline principles • Clear responsibilities • Identify commitments • Agreement to Core Principles • Membership

26. 4. Develop a Communications/ Marketing Plan • Educate the politicians, agencies, and public • What we are doing • Why it is important • The 5th ‘E’ • Determine a media strategy • “Statewide Integration of Safety Efforts”

27. 5. Appraise the Existing Safety Management System • Help identify current issues and concerns • NCHRP Report 501 includes appraisal criteria for all components of ISMP • Re-appraisal should be conducted every few years

28. 6. Establish the Administrative Structure of the Operations Manager

29. 7. Appoint an Operations Manager • Administer the day-to-day operations • Focal point of the ISMSystem • Sufficiently high level in existing organizational structures • ‘Safety champion’

30. 8. Assemble the Risk, Analysis, and Evaluation Group • Data-driven decision making process • Conduct detailed: • evaluation • problem identification • optimization for allocation of resources • Analysts assembled from: • different agencies • universities • private consultants

31. 9. State Stakeholders Set a Vision • Define goal(s) • May change over time, focus on short term • Two questions: • What is success? • What is the organization doing to fulfill its mission?

32. Quantifiable Goals are Necessary • Provides a target • Assess the impact of your State’s efforts • Achieve objective of data driven decision making

33. 10.Link Databases • The ISMP is dependent upon having good data • Not a central database • Different databases are linked and can be cross-referenced

34. The ISMP Organizational Structure

35. The Process in the ISMP

36. Establishing the Integrated Road Safety System 5. Develop detailed action plans 1. Review safety information 6. Evaluation of performance 3. Develop objectives, strategies and preliminary action plans 4. Determine appropriate combination of strategies 2. Establish emphasis areas Integrated Safety Management Process

37. ISMProcess Step 1 Review Highway Safety Information

38. ISMProcess Step 2 Establish Emphasis Areas

39. ISMProcess Step 3Develop Objectives, Strategies and Preliminary Action Plans to Address the Emphasis Areas

40. RAE provides optimization OM reviews objectives, analysis in response to OM strategies, preliminary requests action plans including pilot studies SPL confirms level of OM selects objectives and funding available strategies from emphasis areas for development of detailed action plans based upon RAE optimization results Separately, OM selects pilot studies for implementation Step 4 ISMProcess Step 4Determine Appropriate Combination of Strategies for Identified Emphasis Areas Step 5 Step 3 SPL prioritizes level of funding

41. ISMProcess Step 5Develop Detailed Action Plans

42. ISMProcess Step 6Implementation of Integrated Strategic Highway Safety Plan and Evaluation of Performance

43. Benefits of the ISMP(1 of 2) • A protocol and organizational structure for integrating across the agencies responsible for road safety • Data driven decision making • Quantifiable results that can be demonstrated and used to leverage for additional support and funding • Cost effective implementation

44. Benefits of the ISMP(2 of 2) • Strategic Safety Plan (strategic, data driven, comprehensive, collaborative, integrated) • Greater safety benefit working together than independently • Improved road safety, a reduction in both the number and severity of crashes

45. Key Action Items (1 of 2) • Vision Statement (What steps have been taken to establish a short-term vision/goal?) • Safety Program Leadership (What steps have been taken to form a multi-disciplinary leadership group made up of State’s top management?)

46. Key Action Items (2 of 2) • Data Analysis (What type of data analysis is being conducted?) • Action Plan Evaluation (What consideration is being given towards evaluating the success of the strategic highway safety plan?)