Oklahoma Strategic Highway Safety Plan

1. Oklahoma Strategic Highway Safety Plan presented toSHSP Leadership Group SHSP Working Group presented bySusan Herbel and Sam Lawton, Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Oklahoma City, OK December 6, 2006

2. Purpose Identify the key safety needs Guide investment decisions Align resources for effectiveness Save lives and reduce injuries Mandated under SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. §148) Strategic Highway Safety Plan – What’s the Point?

3. The Bottom Line Fatalities and Fatal Crashes 900 849 850 800 800 777 775 769 747 739 750 729 708 682 700 676 671 667 662 657 639 650 624 595 588 586 600 Fatalities 550 Fatal Crashes 500 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Source: Oklahoma Highway Safety Office - 2005 Oklahoma Crash Facts

4. Is This Progress? Mileage Death Rate 3.0 2.6 2.5 2.3 1.9 2.0 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Source: Oklahoma Highway Safety Office – 2005 Oklahoma Crash Facts

5. The Consequences • Human • Economic • Mobility • Environmental

6. Summary • Motor vehicle crashes are a serious public health problem • Collaboration is key • New approaches are required • Standard, “one size fits all” solutions are nonexistent. • Changes in organizational priorities will be needed.

7. SHSP Requirements and Characteristics Excellence in Leadership Collaboration Data Driven Comprehensive Effective Implementation

8. DOT responsibility Governor’s signature (or designee) Leadership

9. State DOT State Highway Safety Office Regional transportation planning organizations and metropolitan planning organizations Major modes of transportation State and local traffic enforcement officials State persons responsible for administering the Federal rail-grade crossing program Operation Lifesaver State MCSAP administrators State motor vehicle administrators Major state and local stakeholders (includes tribes) Collaboration – Key Stakeholders

10. Data Driven and Evidence-based • Problem identification • Hot spot and corridor/segment analysis • All public roads • Proactive planning • Goals, objectives, performance measures • Program/project selection • Evaluation • Course corrections

11. Comprehensive • Education • Enforcement • Engineering • Emergency response • Multimodal • Systemwide

12. The 4 E’s of Transportation Safety • Engineering • ODOT (design, safety, planning, maintenance, operations) • ODOT districts • Municipal engineers • Enforcement • OK Highway Patrol • Local police departments • Prosecution • Judiciary

13. The 4 E’s of Transportation Safety • Education • OK State Department of Education • Universities • Public schools • Community coalitions • Emergency response • OK State Department of Health(Emergency Medical Services Division) • Incident management

14. The 5th E of Transportation Safety • Everyone else! • Public involvement • Elected and appointed officials • Tribal governments • Public interest groups (i.e., AAA, AARP, MADD, etc.)

15. Effective Implementation • Collaborative leadership, ownership, and management • Action plans w/ milestones • Performance measures • Local involvement • Partner responsibilities • Feedback • Updates

16. Note: “Easy” is not one of them! The 5 E’s of Transportation Safety

17. SHSP Approach • Identify leadership and facilitate partnerships • Establish goals, objectives, and performance measures • Identify a data-driven process to address all public roads • Develop a public outreach and education program • Identify priority emphasis areas and comprehensive strategies and action plans

18. SHSP Approach • Facilitate and document detailed implementation plans and a management structure to carry the SHSP forward • Create a method for tracking progress and evaluating outcomes

19. Strategic Alignments to Improve Safety – A Model for Comprehensive Safety Planning in Oklahoma

20. Putting it All Together Metropolitan Transportation Plans Statewide Transportation Plan (Long Range Plan) Modal Plans CVSP State Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Traffic Records Strategic Plan HSP Safe Routes to School HSIP TIP Local Road Safety Program Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)

21. Role of the SHSP Leadership Group • Provide overall direction for the Oklahoma SHSP • Maintain consistency between SHSP and policies of ODOT and other partner agencies • Establish high level support for SHSP • Review and approve SHSP vision, goals, and action plans • Support implementation of SHSP action plans and sustain implementation efforts

22. Role of the SHSP Working Group • Provide staff level technical support in the development of the SHSP • Review preliminary products of SHSP planning process • Facilitate collaboration among staff of ODOT and SHSP partners • Lead and/or participate on the emphasis area teams

23. SHSP Challenges • Collaboration and public involvement • Leadership • Funding • FHWA/NHTSA reporting requirements • Native Americans • Data and data sharing

24. SHSP Schedule • Dec. 6, 2006: Initial Leadership and Working Group Meetings • Dec. 2006-Jan. 2007: Data analysis and stakeholder interviews • Jan. 2007: Establish SHSP Vision, Goals and Emphasis Areas • Feb. - April 2007: Establish Emphasis Area Teams, review data, develop goals and objectives, and identify countermeasure strategies • April-May 2007: Develop Emphasis Area Action Plans

25. SHSP Schedule • June 2007: Finalize Emphasis Area Action Plans • July 2007: Draft SHSP for agency & stakeholder review • August 2007: Final SHSP for ODOT review and approval • September 30, 2007: Submit SHSP to FHWA

26. Where Do We Go From Here?

27. Benjamin Franklin Franklin, an engraving from a painting by Duplessis “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

28. ? Comments, Questions, Recommendations?