State Strategies to Reduce Highway and Traffic Fatalities and Injuries: A Road Map for States

This road map is a tool to help states reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. It can help states assess their capacity to address the problem, determine how to align existing state and local agency efforts, improve public health and safety, and explore cost-effective safety interventions for implementation and evaluate their work. Given that states are already working to improve traffic safety, some steps may overlap with current efforts and are designed to enhance these practices. For example, under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, state departments of transportation are required to submit a multiyear Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) on behalf of the state to the Federal Highway Administration. The SHSP is designed to guide state investment decisions toward strategies and countermeasures with the most potential to save lives and prevent injuries on public roadways. This road map highlights these efforts and serves as a policy development tool for governors and their senior leadership who seek to improve coordination and bolster existing efforts across state agencies, including departments of public safety, transportation, public health and emergency medical and trauma services.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/2018/HSPS/2018.NGA.Traffic_Safety_Roadmap.web.v7.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Governors Association Center for Best Practices

  444 N. Capitol Street, Suite 267
  Washington, DC    20001

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Atlanta, GA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Dedon, Lauren
  • Gander, Sue
  • Hill, Kalyn
  • Kambour, Andrew
  • Locke, Jeff
  • McLeod, Jeff
• Publication Date: 2018-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 36p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Cost effectiveness; Fatalities; Policy; States; Traffic crashes; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01667692
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: U38OT000227
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 2018 9:19AM