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AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS

The Problem - Today Highway deaths 43,443 in 2005

The fatality rate is unacceptably high: 1.47 deaths per 100 million VMT
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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 lifetimessome more than once.
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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

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Save Lives
Prevent 9,000 deaths each year in traffic crashes.

Reduce the highway death rate by one-third.


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Added Benefit to Society


Drive down the costs to society of motor vehicle crashes.

Total economic cost of roadway crashes: $230 billion a year.

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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

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THE PLAN
Cost-effective Proven Strategies Innovation

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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.

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Contributors to the Strategic Plan


States and Counties Mothers Against Drunk Driving

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

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

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AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan

A Comprehensive Plan to Substantially Reduce Vehicle-Related Fatalities and Injuries on the Nations Highways

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What the Plan Focuses On


A comprehensive approach:

Drivers Other Users Vehicles Highways Emergency Medical Services Management


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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

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DRIVERS
8 Emphasis Areas

Instituting GDL for young drivers Ensuring drivers are fully licensed and competent

Reducing impaired driving Increasing driver safety awareness Increasing safety belt use and improving air bag effectiveness Keeping drivers alert

Sustaining proficiency in older drivers


Curbing aggressive driving

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Special USERS
2 Emphasis areas
Make Walking and Street Crossing Safer

Ensuring Safer Bicycle Travel

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VEHICLES
3 Emphasis Areas

Improving Motorcycle Safety

Making Truck Travel Safer


Increasing Safety Enhancements in Vehicles

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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

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Emergency Medical Services


1 Emphasis Area

Enhancing emergency medical capabilities to increase survivability

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Management
2 Emphasis Area
Improving Information and Decision Support Systems

Creating More Effective Processes and Safety Management Systems

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Moving Toward 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

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THE PROCESS
Comprehensive Approach to Maximize Road Safety

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Integrated Safety Management Process

Comprehensive approach Cuts across organizational boundaries

Promotes cooperation
Guides plan development Establish a death reduction goal

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Developing a Comprehensive Plan


Four hallmarks of a Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan:

Data driven Collaborative Comprehensive Management

NCHRP Report 501 is an excellent guide

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Working Together Is Key


Advantages of an Integrated Safety Management Process
New insightsrelationships

between organizations and functions

Helps participants see the bigger picture Pooled resources Sheds light on inefficiencies

Interaction between participants

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IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES
Blueprints for a Safer Future

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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

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17 Emphasis Area Guides Now Available

Run-Off-Road
Head-On Trees in Hazardous Locations Unsignalized Intersections

Unlicensed Driver Suspended/Revoked


Aggressive Driving

Horizontal Curves
Utility Poles

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17 Emphasis Area Guides Now Available

Older Drivers
Pedestrians Seat Belt Use Signalized Intersections

Alcohol Impaired Drivers


Work Zones

Rural Emergency Management Services Distracted/Fatigued Drivers

Heavy Trucks
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Scheduled for Late 2006 Early 2007

Motorcyclists
Head-on Crashes on Freeways Young Drivers Bicyclists Speed Data

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THE SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL


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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

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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

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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

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What Approach is Needed?

Focus on reducing fatalities and serious injuries


Evidence-based deployment of strategies System improvements Keying on cost effective improvements

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Focusing on High Payoff Strategies

Core
Lane Departures Intersections Safety Belt Use Alcohol Speed Enforcement Young Driver

Desirable
Pedestrian Safety Older Drivers Trucks Bicyclist Repeat Offenders Rural EMS

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To Sum It Up
What we need to:
Develop and implement comprehensive, performancebased 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

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Strategic Highway Safety Plan


http://safety.transportation.org

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