Institutionalizing the Safe System Approach in Transportation Planning and Programming

The Safe System approach, initiated about 30 years ago as a global movement, has achieved significant safety improvements by adopters such as Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand. At the center of the Safe System approach is humans’ ability to tolerate crash force. The Safe System approach requires commitment and action by stakeholders (including planners, roadway system designers and managers, roadway users, law enforcement, and vehicle manufacturers) to build in redundancy that protects roadway users and reduces roadway fatalities and serious injuries. Commitment and collective action by stakeholders contributes to a positive safety culture. The objective of this research is to develop a practical toolkit for transportation and planning agencies that presents proven, innovative, and emerging strategies to institutionalize the Safe System approach throughout planning and programming processes. To ensure usefulness and practicality of the toolkit, the draft deliverables should engage a range of agency practitioners for review and comment.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5324

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $400000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 08-171

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Schwager, Dianne

• Performing Organizations:

  Fehr & Peers

  Washington, District of Columbia  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Mitman, Meghan

• Start Date: 20231030
• Expected Completion Date: 20251029
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Highway safety; Institutional issues; Metropolitan planning organizations; Safety culture; State departments of transportation; Strategic planning; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01846781
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 08-171
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 24 2022 7:37PM