OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY PLANNING The Role of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan in Programming

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OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY PLANNINGThe Role of the
Strategic Highway Safety Plan in Programming

• Presentation to the GTSAC
• APRIL 20, 2007

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OHSP Functions and Responsibilities

• Comprehensive Statewide Highway Safety Plan
• Apply for and accept federal grants
• Apply for and accept other public/private grants
• Administer grant programs to state and local
  government
• Assist in the coordination of highway safety
  programs with state and local government and
  private agencies

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OHSP Focus and Priorities

• Improve compliance with Michigan traffic laws
• Enhance the knowledge and expertise of traffic
  safety professionals
• Increase awareness/support of traffic safety as a
  priority
• Enhance the availability, timeliness and use of
  traffic crash records and other planning data and
  information
• Improve the effectiveness of traffic crash
  emergency medical response and treatment

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Planning Process

• Annual Highway Safety Plan due to NHTSA September
  1 each year
• Problem identification based
• Supported through crash data
• Studies, research and reports
• Traffic Safety Summit
• SHSP Action Teams/Plans

• Regional TSCs
• Committees, associations, task forces
• Federal and state agency priorities
• Attendance at national meetings and conferences
• Feedback from project monitoring and grantees
• NHTSA Assessments

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Project Examples

• Lane Departure
• Staff support
• Data analysis
• Motorcycle Safety
• 170,000 for ongoing professional development
  training
• 79,000 to upgrade training motorcycles
• 30,000 for public information initiatives
• Occupant Protection
• 5,000 for a CPS Roll call video developed for
  law enforcement
• 5,000 for reprinting safety belt law enforcement
  guide and CPS best practice card for law
  enforcement officers
• 325,000 for CPS training, work on hospital
  discharge policy assistance
• Impaired Driving
• 2.9 Million for year-round enforcement and
  National Crackdown support
• 170,000 for pilot testing of new technology
• Major emphasis at TS Summit
• Young Driver
• OHSP providing 60,000 for training driving
  instructors in Phase 1 of the new GDL curriculum