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                Missouri's Blueprint to Arrive Alive Implements System-Wide Safety Improvements
**Publication Year:** 
            2011
    
        Original publication: FHWA Safety Program | Systemic In Practice | Missouri (PDF, 279kB)

Overview of Practice

Missouri is one state that has been successful in identifying and implementing system-wide improvements. Missouri's Blueprint to Arrive Alive, which is the State's SHSP, identifies their “Targeted 10” strategies in education, enforcement, engineering, and public policy areas. The state uses Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding for many of these strategies, proactively incorporating the installation of rumble strips/stripes, improved signing and delineation, wider pavement markings, and improved shoulders into pavement resurfacing projects.

Results

Since 2007, almost two-thirds of Missouri's HSIP funds have been allocated to system-wide improvements. While overall results cannot be attributed to specific safety improvements, the evidence is compelling. Between 2005 and 2011, Missouri has seen a 37.5 percent drop in overall fatalities and a 46 percent reduction in lane departure fatalities. In addition, since the installation of cable median barriers on the Interstate system throughout the State, there has been an 80 percent reduction in cross-median crash fatalities on Missouri freeways.

"Line graph titled 'Freeway Cross-Median Fatalities and Median Guard Cable 2002-2011' shows that as Miles of Median Guard Cable increases Cross-Median Fatalities descreases. During the period of greatest increase in Miles of Median Guard Cable, 2004-2006, the greatest decrease in Cross-Medain Fatalities occurred."

Contact

John P. Miller, P.E.
Traffic Safety Engineer
Missouri Department of Transportation
573-526-1759John.P.Miller@modot.mo.gov U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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