Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
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SAFETEA-LU
Key Safety Provisions
Key Safety Provisions
- New "Core" Highway Safety Improvement Program
- SAFETEA-LU Doubles TEA-21 Safety Apportionment
- Strategic Highway Safety Plans
- Flexibility
- Safety Set Asides
Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
- Purpose: To achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on public roads
- New "Core" Program
- $5.06 Billion over 4 years (FY06 – FY09)
Fiscal Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
Authorization | $1,236 M | $1,256 M | $1,276 M | $1,296 M |
- Set Asides
- Railway Highway Crossings - $220 Million/Year
- High Risk Rural Roads - $90 Million/Year
Apportionment Formula
- 1/3: Total lane miles federal aid highways
- 1/3: Total vehicle miles traveled on lanes on federal aid highways
- 1/3: Number of fatalities on federal aid system
To obligate HSIP funds, States' must:
- Develop and implement a State Strategic Highway Safety Plan
- Produce a program of projects or strategies
- Evaluate the plan on a regular basis
- Submit an annual report to the Secretary
Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP)
- Developed by DOT after consultation with prescribed safety stakeholders
- Analyzes and makes effective use of crash data
- Addresses 4 E's plus management and operations
- Considers safety needs of all public roads
- Describes program of projects or strategies to reduce or eliminate safety hazards
- Approved by State Governor or responsible State agency
**SHSP Guidance**
HSIP Flexibility
- A State may use up to 10% of HSIP funds to carry out other safety projects identified in the SHSP
- The State must certify that:
- The State has met it's needs relating to railway-highway crossings
- The State has met it's infrastructure safety needs relating to highway safety improvement projects
HSIP Reporting Requirements
States' must submit an annual report** to the Secretary that:
- Describes not less than 5% of locations exhibiting the most severe safety needs, with an assessment of:
- Potential remedies to hazardous locations identified
- Estimated costs associated with remedies
- Impediments to implementation other than cost
**Reports made available to the public through DOT web site
States' must submit a report to the Secretary that:
- Describes progress being made to implement highway safety improvement projects
- Assesses the effectiveness of those improvements
- Describes the extent to which improvements:
- Reduce the # roadway fatalities
- Reduce the # roadway injuries
- Reduce the occurrences and mitigate the consequences of roadway-related crashes
- Reduce occurrences of crashes at railway highway crossings
Railway Highway Crossings
$220 Million/Year Set Aside (FY06 – FY09)
- New Funding Formula:
- 50% based on STP formula factors
- 50% based on # public railway-highway crossings
- Minimum apportionment: ½ of 1% of program funds
- 50% of State's apportionment for installation of protective devices
- Up to 2% of Section 130 funds can be used for data analysis and compilation for annual report to Secretary
- Section 130 activities also eligible under HSIP (Section 148)
- Report to Congress every two years beginning April 1, 2006
High Risk Rural Roads
$90 Million/Year Set Aside (FY06 – FY09)
- Eligible on any roadway functionally classified as:
- Rural major collector
- Rural minor collector
- Rural local road
- Accident rate for fatalities and incapacitating injuries > statewide average
- Construction and operational improvements
- Flexibility:
- State certifies it has met all of its' needs relating to high risk rural roads
- May use set aside funds for any project under Section 148
Safe Routes to School (SR2S)
- Program Purpose:
- Enable and encourage children to walk and bicycle to school
- Make walking and bicycling to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative
- Facilitate planning, development, and implementation of projects and activities that will improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption and air pollution in the vicinity of schools
SR2S Funding
Fiscal Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
Authorization | $54 M | $100 M | $125 M | $150 M | $183 M |
- Apportionment Ratio
- Total student enrollment in primary and middle schools (K-8) in each state to all states
- Minimum: $1,000,000/Fiscal Year
- SR2S Coordinator
SR2S Eligible Projects & Activities
Infrastructure Related Projects
- Sidewalk improvements
- Traffic calming & speed reduction improvements
- Pedestrian & bicycle crossings improvements
- On-street bicycle facilities
- Off-street bicycle & pedestrian facilities
- Secure bicycle parking facilities
- Traffic diversion improvements
Non-Infrastructure Related Activities
- Public Awareness campaigns
- Outreach to press & community leaders
- Traffic education & enforcement
- Student sessions on pedestrian & bicycle safety, health & environment
- Funding for training, volunteers and managers of SR2S programs
Other SR2S Activities
- National SR2S Clearinghouse
- Develop information and educational programs
- Technical assistance
- National SR2S Task Force
- Leaders in health, transportation and education
- Study and develop a strategy for advancing SR2S nationwide (March 31, 2006)
Work Zone Safety
- Work Zone Safety Grants
- National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
- Worker Injury Prevention & Free Flow of Vehicular Traffic
- Temporary Traffic Control Devices
Road Safety Improvements for Older Drivers & Pedestrians
- Improve traffic signs and pavement markings
- Consistent with "Guidelines and Recommendations to Accommodate Older Drivers and Pedestrians" October 2001
- Federal Share = 100%
- No dedicated funding
Incentive/Transfer Programs
- Section 154: Open Container Requirements
- Section 157: Safety Incentive Grants for Use of Seat Belts
- Section 163: Safety Incentives to Prevent Operation of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
- Section 164: Minimum penalties for repeat offenders for driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence
NHTSA Programs
- Section 406: Safety Belt Performance Belt Grants
- Section 408: State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements
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