FHWA Resource Center
PLANNING TEAM
Safety and the Planning Process
This page contains information concerning the Resource Center's efforts to help State DOTs and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) improve safety within their planning.
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Safety Consious Planning
Safety Conscious Planning Seminar
Course length: 2 hours to 1-day depending on audience needs.
Safety Conscious Planning is a comprehensive, system-wide, multimodal, proactive process to better integrate safety into transportation planning and transportation decision-making. The Resource Center Planning Team provides technical assistance to customers in this area, focusing on the successful integration of safety within the traditional planning processes.
Traffic crashes result in over 42,000 fatalities per year, almost 3 million injuries, and a cost to the nation of $230 billion. While much progress has been made in reducing the rate of fatalities, national statistics indicate a current fatality rate of 1.5 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. The goal established by FHWA is to reduce this rate to 1.0 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled by the year 2008. Safety Conscious Planning is one strategy for achieving this goal of improved safety.
TEA-21 included the safety planning requirement that each statewide and metropolitan planning process shall provide for consideration of projects and strategies that will increase the safety and security of the transportation system for motorized and non-motorized users. To successfully move forward, practical examples of how safety can be fully integrated with the transportation planning process are now needed.
Safety Conscious Planning (SCP) is a comprehensive, system wide, multimodal, proactive process that better integrates safety into surface transportation decision-making. Safety Conscious Planning is achieved when:
1. All planning organizations routinely consider safety as an explicit planning priority that is integrated into all elements of project development and selection.
2. All planning organizations (public and private sector) have:
· Practitioners trained in state-of-the-art safety techniques; and
· Access to state of the art safety planning tools.
3. Decision-makers are informed about the quantitative safety implications of all planning decisions, and they are reflected in decision-making.
Safety Consious Planning website.
SCP training course through NTI
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