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Transportation Safety Planning (TSP)Transportation Safety Planning (TSP) is a comprehensive, system-wide, multimodal, proactive process that better integrates safety into surface transportation decision-making. Federal law requires that the State and Metropolitan transportation planning process be consistent with Strategic Highway Safety Plans. It is important for the process to consider projects and strategies to increase the safety of the transportation system for motorized and nonmotorized users. State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) play the leading roles in transportation safety planning. However, to make the greatest impact, it is importation to look beyond the traditional stakeholders. Other stakeholders who should be at the table should include:
ResourcesNEW! Directions in Road Safety Newsletter: This newsletter, slated for periodic publication, includes the latest information on how states and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are integrating safety and planning; information on the latest publications, tools, research, and training; and information avail¬able from Federal agencies. Brochure: Integrating Road Safety Into NEPA Analysis: A Practitioner’s Primer Integrating Road Safety Into NEPA Analysis: A Practitioner’s Primer Safety Performance Measure Primer - A Tool for Integrating Safety in the Planning Process is a tool to help State and local practitioners, transportation planners, and decision-makers identify, select, and use safety performance measures as a part of the transportation planning process. Transportation Safety Planner (TSP) One Page Fact Sheet is a one page fact sheet that describes answers three questions: What is TSP? Why is TSP needed? And who are the key players in TSP? Making the Case for Transportation Safety – Ideas for Decision Makers is a compilation of noteworthy practices implemented by stakeholders, executives, managers, and practitioners at all levels. Updated 2009 - Transportation Planner’s Safety Desk Reference identifies and summarizes the information of interest to transportation planners in the NCHRP Report 500 Series. NEW State Safety Fact Sheets include the emphasis areas each state identified in their approved Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), along with relevant data showing fatalities, rates, and trends. Other Related LinksTransportation Safety Planning Working Group (TSPWG) is formerly known as the Safety Conscious Planning Working Group, is an informal, ad hoc partnership of U.S. DOT agencies and professional associations representing state DOT, safety, traffic engineering and planning communities. The Transportation Research Board convenes and moderates the TSPWG, and hosts the web site. |
Program ContactJennifer Warren What's NewWeb-based HSIP Courses Integrating Road Safety into NEPA Analysis: A Primer for Safety and Environmental Professionals: Highway Safety Improvement Program - Project Eligibility Strategic Highway Safety Plan - Leadership that Saves Lives Strategic Highway Safety Plan - Get Involved! HSIP Noteworthy Practice Series P2P - Integrating Local Planning Organizations into a State HSIP SHSP Implementation Process Model Interactive CD SHSP IPM - The Essential Eight - Fundamental Elements and Effective Steps for SHSP Implementation SHSP IPM Supplement Number 1 – Case Studies A Primer on Safety Performance Measures for the Transportation Planning Process |