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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