AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan

1. AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS

2. The Problem - Today Highway deaths 43,443 in 2005 The fatality rate is unacceptably high:1.47 deaths per 100 million VMT STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

3. The Problem – Tomorrow Of every 90 children born this year… • One will die violently in a highway crash during his/her lifetime. • 70 of every 100 will be injured in a crash during their lifetimes…some more than once. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

4. The Goal Reduce the incidence and severity of motor vehicle crashes. Lower the rate to not more than 1 fatality per 100 million VMT And… STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

5. Save Lives Prevent 9,000 deaths each year in traffic crashes. Reduce the highway death rate by one-third. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

6. Added Benefit to Society Drive down the costs to society of motor vehicle crashes. Total economic cost of roadway crashes: $230 billion a year. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

7. How Can We Do It? • Involve all agencies with a safety mission • Engineers, law enforcement, EMS, licensing, judiciary, behavioral • Establish Integrated Safety Management Process • Identify Significant Safety Problems • Focus on road users, highway, vehicle, environment, and management system • Launch Coordinated Attack on Problems STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

8. Driving Down FatalitiesTOOLS FOR LIFE THE PLAN Cost-effective Proven Strategies Innovation STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

9. Strategic Highway Safety Plan Created with input from a wide range of public and private sector national safety experts in driver, vehicle and highway issues. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

10. Contributors to the Strategic Plan • States and Counties • Mothers Against Drunk Driving • National Safety Council • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety • American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials • American Automobile Association Traffic Safety Foundation • Governors Highway Safety Association • American Trucking Associations • American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators • National Transportation Safety Board • American Association of Retired Persons • American Traffic Safety Services Assn. • Transportation Research Board • Bicycle Federation of America • General Motors Corp. • Academia • American Road and Transportation Builders Association • Insurance Industry • Roadway Safety Foundation • Railroad Industry • Private Sector Consultants • U.S. Department of Transportation STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

11. AASHTOStrategic Highway Safety Plan A Comprehensive Plan to Substantially Reduce Vehicle-Related Fatalities and Injuries on the Nations Highways STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

12. What the Plan Focuses On A comprehensive approach: • Drivers • Other Users • Vehicles • Highways • Emergency Medical Services • Management STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

13. Emphasis Areas & Strategies • 22 key emphasis areas and more than 90 strategies, with emphasis on • Existing, cost-effective strategies • Enhancements to improve effectiveness of existing programs • Major and emerging safety categories • Integration of effort is the key STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

14. 8 Emphasis Areas Instituting GDL for young drivers Ensuring drivers are fully licensed and competent Sustaining proficiency in older drivers Curbing aggressive driving Reducing impaired driving Increasing driver safety awareness Increasing safety belt use and improving air bag effectiveness Keeping drivers alert DRIVERS STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

15. Special USERS 2 Emphasis areas • Make Walking and Street Crossing Safer • Ensuring Safer Bicycle Travel STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

16. VEHICLES 3 Emphasis Areas • Improving Motorcycle Safety • Making Truck Travel Safer • Increasing Safety Enhancements in Vehicles STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

17. HIGHWAYS 6 Emphasis Areas • Reducing vehicle-train collisions • Keeping vehicles on the roadway • Minimizing consequences of leaving the roadway • Improving design and operation of highway intersections • Reducing head-on and across-median collisions • Designing safer work zones STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

18. EmergencyMedical Services 1 Emphasis Area • Enhancing emergency medical capabilities to increase survivability STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

19. Management 2 Emphasis Area • Improving Information and Decision Support Systems • Creating More Effective Processes and Safety Management Systems STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

20. MovingToward the Goal Significantly reducing crashes, deaths, injuries, and lost resources will require: • Deployment of existing and innovative cost-effective strategies • Comprehensive, team-based approach • New emphasis on emerging safety categories • A process for integrating and coordinating efforts STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

21. Driving Down FatalitiesTOOLS FOR LIFE THE PROCESS Comprehensive Approach toMaximize Road Safety STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

22. Integrated Safety Management Process • Comprehensive approach • Cuts across organizational boundaries • Promotes cooperation • Guides plan development • Establish a death reduction goal STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

23. Developing a Comprehensive Plan Four hallmarks of a Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan: • Data driven • Collaborative • Comprehensive • Management NCHRP Report 501 is an excellent guide STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

24. Working Together Is Key Advantages of an Integrated Safety Management Process • New insights—relationships between organizations and functions • Helps participants see the “bigger picture” • Pooled resources • Sheds light on inefficiencies • Interaction between participants STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

25. Driving Down FatalitiesTOOLS FOR LIFE IMPLEMENTATIONGUIDES Blueprints for a Safer Future STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

26. NCHRP Report 500 Series • Developed by recognized safety experts. • Latest research and demonstration results. • Identifies strategies to address problem areas. • Provide process for implementing guides STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

27. Run-Off-Road Head-On Trees in Hazardous Locations Unsignalized Intersections Unlicensed Driver Suspended/Revoked Aggressive Driving Horizontal Curves Utility Poles 17 Emphasis Area Guides Now Available STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

28. Older Drivers Pedestrians Seat Belt Use Signalized Intersections Heavy Trucks Alcohol Impaired Drivers Work Zones Rural Emergency Management Services Distracted/Fatigued Drivers 17 Emphasis Area Guides Now Available STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

29. Scheduled for Late 2006 Early 2007 • Motorcyclists • Head-on Crashes on Freeways • Young Drivers • Bicyclists • Speed • Data STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

30. Strategic Highway Safety PlanTOOLS FOR LIFE THE SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

31. Self Assessment Tool • Determine level of implementation of SHSP • Flexible, adaptable to different types of agencies • Quick, easy, inexpensive • Promotes cooperative assessment of problems • Helps agencies judge how to focus or re-direct safety activities STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

32. What Difference Will It Make? Widespread implementation of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan can result in: • 9,000 fewer deaths each year • More than 300,000 fewer serious injuries • $20 billion or more savings in societal costs of crashes STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

33. Achieving ‘1.0’…What It Will Take? • Stretching our effort. • A new way of going about our business. Dramatic cultural changes in 4 areas: • How we approach the problem • How we use available resources • How innovative we allow ourselves to be • How well we field a safety “team” STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

34. What Approach is Needed? • Focus on reducing fatalities and serious injuries • Evidence-based deployment of strategies • System improvements • Keying on cost effective improvements STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

35. Core Lane Departures Intersections Safety Belt Use Alcohol Speed Enforcement Young Driver Desirable Pedestrian Safety Older Drivers Trucks Bicyclist Repeat Offenders Rural EMS Focusing on High Payoff Strategies STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

36. To Sum It Up… What we need to: • Develop and implement comprehensive, performance-based plans • Identify and work toward fatality reduction goal • Address both state and local road problems • Deploy low-cost, targeted, systematic and cost-effective strategies • Make use of innovative solutions and strategies • Work with local officials and planning partners • Use Available Resources STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN

37. Strategic Highway Safety PlanTOOLS FOR LIFE Strategic Highway Safety Plan http://safety.transportation.org STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN