# Presentation: 530038

## Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users SAFETEA-LUKey Safety Provisions

***Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users ******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

## Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

- 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

## Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

- 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

**Apportionment Formula**

## Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

- 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

**To obligate HSIP funds, States’ must:**

## 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

- 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

**States’ must submit an annual report** to the Secretary that:**

****Reports made available to the public through DOT web site**

## HSIP Reporting Requirements (cont’d)

- 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

**States’ must submit a report to the Secretary that:**

## Railway Highway Crossings

- New Funding Formula:
- 50% based on STP formula factors
- 50% based on # public railway-highway crossings
- Minimum apportionment:
- 	1⁄2 of 1% of program funds

**$220 Million/Year Set Aside**
**(FY06 – FY09)**

-    **50% of State’s apportionment for installation of protective devices**

## Railway Highway Crossings (cont’d)

- 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

- 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

**$90 Million/Year Set Aside **
**(FY06 – FY09) **

## High Risk Rural Roads (cont’d)

- 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

- 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

| Fiscal Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Authorization | $54 M | $100 M | $125 M | $150 M | $183 M |

## SR2S Eligible Projects & Activities

- 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

- 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

**Infrastructure Related**
** ****Projects**

**Non-Infrastructure Related **
**Activities**

## 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** **

## “The care of human life & happiness...is the first and only objective of good government”

**	****	****	****Thomas Jefferson**