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Intersection Safety Implementation Plan Process

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Overview

All States have developed Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP) and have established safety goals as part of the SHSP. States usually express safety goals in one of two ways:

1. A reduction in fatalities by a certain year.
2. A reduction in a combination of fatalities and injuries by a certain year.

Either of these options can be expressed in total numbers or rates.

To achieve their safety goals, many States select intersection safety as an emphasis area. However, while SHSPs may identify strategies to promote intersection safety, they lack the depth of information needed to establish an action plan for implementing the strategies and achieving the safety goals.

This document provides States a process (outlined in Figure 1) for creating an implementation plan to guide intersection safety implementation activities. It is specifically targeted toward State Safety Engineers who have intersection safety as an emphasis area in their SHSP.

Figure 1: Process for Developing an Intersection Safety Implementation Plan

1. Set the intersection crash reduction goal.
2. Expand the current approach for achieving the crash reduction goal.
3. Identify intersection countermeasure types to be considered.
4. Analyze crash and applicable roadway data to identify intersections for cost-effective countermeasure deployment (conducted concurrently with Step 3).
5. Develop a straw man outline of countermeasures, deployment levels, and costs to achieve the intersection goal.
6. Conduct a workshop of key stakeholders and follow-up implementation planning meeting to reach consensus on a refined set of countermeasures, deployment levels, and costs to achieve the intersection goal.
7. Develop a draft intersection safety implementation plan that defines the key implementation steps, responsibilities, schedule, and performance measures to move each stakeholder agreed countermeasure from its current state to full implementation.
8. Present the draft implementation plan to upper management for approval, support, and direction.
9. Finalize the implementation plan based upon direction received from upper management.
10. Implement the plan, monitor progress, and evaluate results.

Once complete, the implementation plan will include the activities, countermeasures, strategies, deployment levels, implementation steps, and funds necessary to achieve the intersection component of an SHSP goal. The following resources are available on the FHWA Intersection Safety web page (http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/) to assist States in developing their implementation plans:

• Example workshop presentation.
• Example data analysis package and straw man outline.
• Example intersection safety implementation plan.