Safety Provisions in Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21)
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MAJOR THEMES
- Strengthens America’s highway & public transportation systems
- Establishes a performance-based Federal program
- Creates jobs & supports economic growth
- Supports the Department’s aggressive safety agenda
- Simplifies and focuses the Federal program
- Accelerates project delivery & promotes innovation
Highway Safety Improvement Program ($2.4B)
- Dramatically increases size of existing program
- Maintains current structure; adds requirement for regular update of the strategic highway safety plan
- Keeps setaside ($220M/year) for rail-highway grade crossings
- No high risk rural roads setaside unless safety statistics worsen
- Secretary to establish measures and States to set targets for number of injuries and fatalities (and number per VMT)
- Strengthens link between HSIP and NHTSA programs
State HSIP
- Advance the capabilities of the State for safety data collection, analysis and integration in a manner that complements State highway safety program and commercial vehicle safety plan
- Use that safety data system to perform safety problem identification and countermeasure analysis
- Identify hazardous locations, sections, and elements
- Establish relative severity of those locations
- Identify number of fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads by location in State
- Consider which projects maximize opportunities to advance safety
- Adopt strategic and performance-based goals that
- address traffic safety, including behavioral and infrastructure problems and opportunities on all public roads
- focus resources on areas of greatest need
- are coordinated with other State highway safety programs
- Determine priorities
- Establish and implement a schedule of highway safety improvement projects
- Establish an evaluation process
- Driven by Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
- Requires regular updates
- Secretary to set schedule and content of updated SHSP by October 1, 2013
- Expands list of participants
- County transportation officials
- State representatives of non-motorized users
- Other major Federal, State, tribal, and local safety stakeholders
- Highway Safety Plan (NHTSA) coordinated with SHSP
Highway Safety Improvement Project
- Strategies, activities, and projects on a public road that are consistent with a State strategic highway safety plan and
- correct or improve a hazardous road location or feature; or
- address a highway safety problem
- Funds may be obligated to carry out any highway safety improvement project on any public road or publicly owned bicycle or pedestrian pathway or trail
- List of examples included in MAP-21
Data Improvement
- Activities
- Highway basemap of all public roads
- Collect safety data
- Store and maintain safety data
- Develop analytical processes for safety data elements
- Roadway safety analysis tools
- Analytical use of safety data
- Model Inventory of Roadway Elements – Secretary shall
- establish a subset of model inventory of roadway elements that are useful for inventory of roadway safety
- ensure that States adopt and use subset to improve data collection
Coordination with NHTSA Programs
- Ensure the State coordinates the Highway Safety Plan (HSP) w/the State Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
- Ensure the State coordinates data collection and information systems with the State SHSP
- Aligns performance measures for SHSP and HSP
Safety Performance Management
- MAP-21 identifies Safety as a national goal area
- USDOT establishes measures by April 2014
- Serious injuries and fatalities per vehicle mile traveled (VMT)
- Number of serious injuries and fatalities
- States set targets 1 year after measures established
- Can adjust targets for urban or rural areas
- State & metro plans describe how programs and projects will achieve targets
- If a State has not met or made significant progress toward meeting safety targets in 2 years
- Obligation authority equal to prior year HSIP apportionment only for HSIP projects
- Annual safety implementation plan describing actions State will take to meet targets
- High-Risk Rural Road Safety: If fatality rate on rural roads increases over 2-year period, State must obligate for projects on HRRRs at least 200% of FY09 HRRR program
- Older Drivers: If fatalities and serious injuries per capita for road users over 65 increases during 2-year period, must include strategies in subsequent SHSP, considering Older Driver Handbook recommendations
Study of High-Risk Rural Roads Best Practices
- Report by October 1, 2013
- Literature review
- Survey of current practice of DOTs and local units of government
- Best Practices Manual 180 days after report
- Include list of cost-effective roadway safety infrastructure improvements and best practices
- Use of manual shall be voluntary
Other Safety Programs
- Safe Routes to Schools
- Eligible as part of Transportation Alternatives program
- Railway Highway Grade Crossing Program
- Set-aside still $220M (~9% of total HSIP)
- Puerto Rico highways (continued; $150M/yr)
- ≥ 25% must be used for HSIP projects
- Tribal Transportation Program
- 2% set aside for safety on tribal land
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