Example Intersection Safety Implementation Plan

Background

The State SHSP has an overall goal to reduce the number of fatalities on State roads to no more than 850 by 2012. This is a 14.3 percent reduction from the 992 fatalities that occurred in 2008. One of the emphasis areas identified in the SHSP is to improve intersection safety. Intersection fatalities within the State have averaged 197 annually over the 2003-2008 time period. The SHSP provides insight on broad initiatives in the intersection safety area to support achieving the overall goal, but it lacks detail regarding countermeasures, actions, deployment characteristics, costs, impacts, and key steps that have to be taken to significantly improve intersection safety. The intersection portion of this goal is projected to be 28 fewer annual intersection fatalities by 2012.² The purpose of this Plan is to provide the specifics on countermeasures, actions, key steps, schedules, and investments needed to achieve that goal.

² The intersection portion of the goal is calculated by multiplying the average annual number of intersection fatalities (197) by the SHSP's safety goal's rate of reduction (0.143), or 197 0.143 = 28.

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