EMS-Related Highway Safety Plans

 

As the state's "umbrella" safety plan, other programs and plans should align with the SHSP. Effective SHSPs will provide high-level goals and strategies that can be implemented through existing transportation planning and programming activities to reduce fatalities and serious injuries.


PLAN NAME WHAT IT IS HOW IT TIES IN TO SHSP WHAT/WHO IT IMPACTS
HSIP
Highway Safety Improvement Program
View the MAP-21 factsheet on the HSIP
The HSIP is a federal program that is administered at the State level. The overall purpose is to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads through the implementation of highway safety improvements. The HSIP emphasizes a data-driven, strategic approach to improving highway safety that focuses on performance. A key requirement of the HSIP is that states develop, implement, evaluate, and update an SHSP. The SHSP should drive state HSIP investment decisions, and conversely, HSIP projects are required to correspond to the emphasis areas and strategies of the SHSP. Allows for flexibility in funding of projects such as EMS initiatives.
HSP
Highway Safety Plan
View state's HSP
The state's HSP is an annual plan identifying program activities supported by federal funds that target identified behavioral safety problems. These activities typically support traffic safety law enforcement, media and public education, prosecution and adjudication, training, and other actions designed to reduce crash-related injuries and fatalities. States are required to coordinate their Highway Safety Plan (HSP), data collection, and information systems with the SHSP. While the emphasis areas, goals, and objectives of the SHSP and HSP may not be identical, they are based on consistent data and should jointly support and help achieve progress in the state's safety priority areas and performance measures. When emphasis areas do align, strategies selected in the HSP should be consistent with those in the SHSP, which are identified through analysis of the same data and a review of evidence-based strategies and countermeasures. HSPs address behavioral safety areas such as occupant protection (safety belts, child safety seats, motorcycle and bicycle helmets), impaired driving, police traffic services, emergency medical services, motorcycle safety, and other areas.
CVSP
Commercial Vehicle Safety Plan
More information about the CVSP
The CVSP is a performance-based annual plan that outlines a state's commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety objectives, strategies, activities, and performance measures. The SHSP should influence the development of the CVSP mission and goal statements, the identification of CMV safety problems, and the development of state-specific objectives, strategies, and activities.
Likewise, the SHSP should complement the CVSP.
The CVSP aims to improve motor carrier, CMV, and driver safety and to reduce the number and severity of crashes and fatalities resulting from such crashes involving a CMV (e.g., motor coach/bus, semi-truck, trailer, etc.).