WELCOMEWELCOMEIowa SHSP Strategies Workshop

January 23 2013January 23, 2013

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Iowa Strategic Highway Safety PlanDevelopment OverviewDevelopment Overview

SHSP Strategies WorkshopJanuary 23 2013January 23, 2013

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What is a State Strategic Highway Safety Plan?

“A statewide coordinated safety plan that provides a comprehensive framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.”

USDOT Strategic Highway Safety Plans Quick Reference

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Why Collaboration Matters

• MAP-21 Federal Transportation Funding– Requires states to have safety performance targets– Strengthens the expectations that the SHSP, Highway

Safety Plan (DPS-GTSB), and Motor Carrier Safety Plan (DOT- MVD) have shared goals

– Suggests other state and local plans intentionally align

• We believe the SHSP process can help identify• We believe the SHSP process can help identify elements of highway safety that each of our organizations can carry forward

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Map 21 - Highway Safety Improvement Program• (HSIP) Federal-aid program purpose:• (HSIP) Federal-aid program purpose:

– achieving a significant reduction in fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal lands. (23 U.S.C. 148(b))

• Develop, implement and update a strategic highway safety plan (SHSP) that identifies and analyzes highway safety problems and opportunities;

Lay out strategies to achieving safety targets– Lay out strategies to achieving safety targets – Define a clear linkage between behavioral and infrastructure

disciplines– Produce a program of projects or strategies to reduce identified safety

problems; andproblems; and– Evaluate the SHSP on a regularly recurring basis.

• States will set targets for the number of serious injuries and fatalities d h b hi l il f l ( )and the number per vehicle mile of travel. (rate)

• The process must be data-driven

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Iowa’s SHSP Update Process

In Depth Crash

Analysis Identify Safety Emphasis

Develop Comprehensive

Li t f S f tSafety

StrategiesEmphasis Areas List of Safety

StrategiesStrategies WorkshopLit Review

& Interviews

Identify Short List Update SHSPImplementation of Critical Strategies

Update SHSPImplementation

Project ProgrammingProject DevelopmentImplementationEvaluationRefinement & Update SHSP

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Iowa SHSP Safety Strategies Workshop

Objectives:• Foster safety culture among stakeholders

Id tif ‘t t f t it ’ b d I ’ i d f t• Identify ‘targets of opportunity’ based on Iowa’s experience and safety records– Establish safety emphasis areas– Determine high priority safety strategies– Initiate stakeholder input in the plan development process

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IOWA SHSP Project Advisory Team

SHSPSHSP “A-Team”

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A State SHSP Recognizes “Everyone Else” Can Help

The SHSP Strategies Workshop invitees represent

these partner entities.

…And everyone else

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SHSPSHSP Background

Think of how far we’ve comewe ve come

improving road safetysafety…

Highway SafetyDecades of Change:

Roads, Vehicles, Drivers

Crashes are Complex…

More Forgiving Road Systems

34%

Safer and Smarter 12%

Easy to Operate Vehicles

??? Changing ???93%

g gDriver Behavior and Decisions

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Crashes are Complex…And so are the strategies to prevent and respond to them

Engineering Education

Enforcement

EveryoneEmergency EveryoneElse

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Iowa Fatal and Major injuries = Severe Crashes

Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Fatalities 446 405 443 388 450 439 446 412 371 390 360 361

Major Injuries 2368 2232 2051 2173 2091 1889 1982 1841 1615 1644 1501 pending

Total 2814 2637 2494 2561 2540 2328 2428 2253 1986 2034 1861pending

Combined fatal and major injuries provide a more complete picture of risk.

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Iowa’s SHSP Long-Term Safety Goal ??

2,6382,541

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3,000

Annual Fatalities and Major Injuries

Since 2002 traffic fatalities2,492

2,328

2,427

2,252

1,987

2,037

1,8722,000

2,500

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Since 2002, traffic fatalities and major injuries on Iowa’s public roads decreased an average of 85 per year.

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Toward Zero Deaths- National Strategy

• There is a renewed worldwide focus on fatalities; this is the USA’s contribution to the global “Decade of Action”

• To build on the recent successes in fatality• To build on the recent successes in fatality reduction

• To build on the lessons of states in their t t i hi h f t lstrategic highway safety plans

• To build on experiences gained from safety planning and multidisciplinary approaches and involvement from wide variety of highway safety stakeholders & “owned” by all stakeholders 0

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TZD Concepts and Communications• Cultural change: change Americans’ attitudes toward highway safety

(NEW emphasis)

• Encourage an aggressive approach based on the ideal that no death is g gg ppacceptable and that we can eliminate highway fatalities.

• Make “TZD” the common goal for Americans

• Non-traditional areas:– Public health, safety culture

• Supporting areas:• Supporting areas:– Data, communications, education and training, planning

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WhatWhat Goal?Goal?

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Iowa SHSP Safety Strategies To make a significant headway

Workshop Towards Zero Deaths, we will need to adopt a culture of safety where individual citizens

Join the plan

safety where individual citizens and officials will not accept

fatalities from vehicle crashes as a price for mobility

www.iowadot.gov/traffic/shsp

Join the plan to save more lives…

as a price for mobility.

-Hugh W. McGee, Ph.D., P.E.

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