Selecting Projects and Strategies to Maximize Highway Safety Improvement Program Performance

The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid highway program with the purpose to achieve significant reductions in fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. States implement the HSIP using various safety management approaches to identify, develop, prioritize, and select HSIP projects. State Departments of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations set annual targets for safety performance using five Federally-required measures in terms of fatalities and serious injuries (23 CFR Part 409.209). Meeting or exceeding safety performance targets is not a certainty, but a potential based on the predicted performance and potential range of effectiveness of the HSIP as well as external factors. Agencies can help improve safety performance by increasing funding for highway safety projects and by choosing locations with high potential for safety improvement along with countermeasures that offer the greatest reductions in fatalities and serious injuries per dollar invested. Employing sound safety management approaches (i.e., site-specific, systemic, and systematic), economic measures (benefit-cost ratio for fatal and serious-injury crashes), implementation strategies, and professional judgment to increase the predicted safety performance of the HSIP increases the potential that a State maximizes its HSIP performance. While this guide focuses on the HSIP, the methods are applicable to other infrastructure and non-infrastructure programs

• Record URL:
  https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/docs/FHWA-SA-20-001_Maximizing_HSI_Performance_508.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/58025
• Corporate Authors:

  VHB

  940 Main Campus Drive
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27606

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Gross, F
  • Harmon, T
  • Cynecki, M
  • Dittberner, R
  • Chestnutt, C
• Publication Date: 2021-3-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 107p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Improvements; Performance measurement; Project management
• Identifier Terms: Highway Safety Improvement Program
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01782546
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-SA-20-001
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-16-D-00005 (VHB)
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 22 2021 12:04PM