Federal Goals for Safety Planning

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Federal Goalsfor Safety Planning
HGAC Regional Traffic Safety Conference Partners
Embracing Safety

• John R. Baxter, FHWA Office of Safety,
  Washington, D.C.

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Panelists

• Georgia Chakiris, NHTSA Regional Administrator,
  South Central Region
• Ned Levine, H-GAC Safety Program Coordinator

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Path to Today

• Four Decades of Progress
• Joint National 1.0 by 2008 Goal
• AASHTO Strategic Plan and NCHRP 500 Guidance
  Documents
• States and Locals Stepping Up
• Fatalities at 43,000

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SAFETEA-LU

• Recognition of Issue
• Increased Funding
• New Core Safety Program
• Flexibility
• Strategic Plan
• Other Requirements
• Safety Planning Factors, Data, Reporting

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Strategic Highway Safety Plans

• About Relations
• All of the Safety Es
• Leveraging Expertise and Resources
• Data Quality and Analysis
• Respecting Existing Processes
• Consistent with Planning Processes
• Statewide and MPO Planning Factors

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The Relationship Between SHSP and Existing
Planning and Programming Processes
Statewide Transportation Plan (Long Range Plan)
Metropolitan Transportation Plans
State Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
Other State Plans (e.g. Freight Plan, Ped/Bike
Plan)
CVSP (49 U.S.C. 31102)
HSP (23 U.S.C. 402)
HSIP (23 U.S.C. 148)
TIP ( Metropolitan)
Statewide Transportation Improvement Program
(STIP)
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Status of SHSP Approvals
NH
WA
ME
MT
VT
ND
MN
OR
MA
NY
ID
WI
SD
WY
MI
RI
PA
IA
CT
NE
OH
NJ
NV
IL
IN
UT
CO
WV
DE
MO
VA
CA
KS
KY
MD
NC
DC
AZ
TN
OK
NM
AR
SC
GA
AL
MS
TX
LA
AK
FL
HI
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One Season Has Now Passed

• 2nd Year of SAFETEA-LU
• Strong Response by States, MPOs
• Plans, Reports
• Continued dialogue
• TSP Web www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/scp
• SHSP Peer Exchange in February
• Shift from Development to Implementation
• Are we seeing increased focus? Adequate
  resources?

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Reducing Fatalities

• 43,000 Nationally is too many
• 3,500 in Texas is too many
• 600 in Houston-Galveston is too many
• Opportunity to make progress
• Nationally
• State level
• Locally

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Questions?
John R. Baxter Federal Highway Administration 202-
366-9198 E-mail John.baxter_at_dot.gov Web
Sitehttp//safety.fhwa.dot.gov