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Institutionalizing the Safe System Approach in Transportation Planning and Programming

NCHRP Research Report 1181: Toolkit for Institutionalizing the Safe System Approach provides a toolkit for transportation and planning agencies with strategies to institutionalize the Safe System Approach (SSA) throughout planning and programming processes. Institutionalizing SSA focuses on system-wide opportunities for injury prevention that can offer broader impact than siloed or isolated safety efforts. The toolkit includes 30 unique tools organized into four themes. The toolkit is envisioned as a menu of options to meet agencies where they are in terms of their needs and readiness. Different strategies will be more appropriate in certain jurisdictions than others, and some tools are interconnected, designed to reinforce one another and create greater impact when used in combination. The toolkit should be of particular use to state, regional, and local agencies actively working to eliminate traffic-related serious injuries and fatalities. Roadway user safety continues to be a top priority for the FHWA, state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and local transportation agencies throughout the United States. The SSA, initiated about 30 years ago internationally, has achieved significant safety improvements in jurisdictions where it has been adopted. The approach requires commitment and action by various stakeholders, including planners roadway system designers and managers, roadway users, law enforcement, and vehicle manufacturers, to build redundancies that protect roadway users and reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries. Under NCHRP Project 08-171, “Institutionalizing the Safe System Approach in Transportation Planning and Programming” Fehr & Peers was asked to develop a toolkit to fill a critical gap by focusing on broader institutionalization, helping agencies assess, refine, and align their systems, funding strategies, decision-making processes, and project delivery practices with SSA principles. Phase I of the research included a literature review and focus groups with representatives from different sizes and types of transportation and planning agencies to develop a recommended framework for the toolkit. In Phase II, 30 tools for successfully institutionalizing the SSA were developed, tested by a focus group, and refined. In addition to the toolkit, published as NCHRP Research Report 1181, the following materials can be found at nationalacademies.org/publications by searching for NCHRP Research Report 1181: Toolkit for Institutionalizing the Safe System Approach: A conduct of research report summarizing the entire research effort, published as NCHRP Web-Only Document 451: Developing a Toolkit to Institutionalize the Safe System Approach; An implementation memo; A slide summary.

Language

  • English

Project

  • Status: Completed
  • Funding: $400,000.00
  • 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: 20251029

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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