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					SHSP Key Components
									**Lead Agency:**
						Rhode Island Department of Transportation
        
									**Time Period Plan Covers:**
						2017
-2022
				
        					**Vision:**
						Rhode Island will be the safest State in the nation for all surface transportation users.
				
        					**Mission:**
						Implement a collaborative process to reduce fatalities and serious injuries and ensure the safety of all surface transportation users.
				
        					**Plan's Goals:**
						Rhode Island continues to move “Toward Zero Deaths” and halving serious injuries by 2027.
		
    			**View State's SHSP**
		
					Emphasis Areas
        **Aging Road Users**

        **EA Type:**
      	Vulnerable Users**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Develop and update regularly an Aging Road Users Plan.
    Establish an Aging Road User Commission (or Task Force).
    Support revisions to design criteria for the transportation network to assist the aging road user.
  Engineering
    Implement improvements in all HSIP projects (as listed in the Intersection and Run-off-the-road Emphasis Area section) as recommended in the Handbook for Designing Roadways for the Aging Population issued by FHWA.
  Education
    Enhance aging driver re-education opportunities.
    Support education and outreach to older drivers to provide information concerning alternative transportation options.
  Data
    Use data to target the needs of aging road users.
  Other
    Enable physicians, law enforcement, family or friends to report at-risk drivers.        
      **Data**

        **EA Type:**
      	Data**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Education
    Provide training to law enforcement to improve crash data collection and analysis.
  Data
    Continue to make data-driven decisions surrounding traffic safety.
    Continue to use and build upon the Crash Records Management Systems.
    Evaluate data systems annually to identify possible deficiencies or data needs.
    Identify and implement advanced technologies, techniques, and hardware to collect, and manage crash data.
    Improve injury data.
    Improve inter-agency collaboration and data uniformity.
    Improve the completeness and accuracy of pedestrian and bicycle crash data.
    Improve timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of traffic records data collection, analysis processes, accessibility, distribution, and systems.
    Promote the importance of high quality traffic and crash data in enhance transportation safety.
    Propose revisions to Rhode Island Crash Report to enhance the report while satisfying the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC).
    Reach out to localities to support transportation safety data and analytical efforts.        
      **Distracted Driving**

        **EA Type:**
      	Behavioral**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Establish a Distracted Driving Task Force.
    Explore revisions to the existing distracted driving laws and penalties.
    Provide legislative updates to the judiciary to ensure consistent understanding of State laws for all parties.
    Work with local businesses to encourage work place policies that discourage distracted driving during work related business.
  Engineering
    Provide the infrastructure and messaging appropriate to discourage distracted driving.
  Education
    Continue to support the incorporation of distracted driving education in drivers’ education coursework.
    Create a uniform message discouraging distracted driving and distracted while walking.
    Offer distracted driving workshops for law enforcement to better understand current distracted driving laws.
    Spread awareness of the dangers of distracted driving through outreach campaigns.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Conduct distracted driving enforcement campaigns in hot-spots.
  Data
    Enhance procedures for completing crash reports to help identify distracted driving crashes.
    Identify and implement advanced technologies, techniques, and hardware to collect, and manage crash data.
    Improve the capture of distracted driving violations on the crash form.
    Use surrogates such as run-off-the-road and rear end type collisions to identify distracted driving crashes.        
      **Impaired Driving**

        **EA Type:**
      	Behavioral**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Develop an Impaired Driving and Drugged Driving Plan and update it on a regular basis.
    Establish an Impaired and Drugged Driving Commission.
    Explore legislation to strengthen impaired driving laws and the enforcement of these laws.
    Identify legislative actions to address treatment of substance abusers.
    Identify legislative actions to prevent driving impairment.
    Provide recommendations on how DUI and drugs are handled by the court system.
    Recruit active involvement of State agency directors, local representatives, and business leaders.
    Review practices of attorneys serving on impaired driving cases.
  Education
    Conduct public training.
    Create joint media efforts between other State agencies and businesses.
    Develop advertising that is unique to Rhode Island.
    Establish training for law enforcement and officers of the court on best practices for impaired and drugged driving policies.
    Identify training opportunities to educate key stakeholders on treatment options.        
      **Intersection and Run-Off-the-Road Crashes**

        **EA Type:**
      	Infrastructure**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Engage leadership from various agencies to monitor the activities of Infrastructure elements of the SHSP.
    Evaluate implemented countermeasures.
  Engineering
    Continue to identify locations and implement countermeasures with the greatest potential for safety improvement using systemic and predictive methods.
    Enhance roadway design protocol to promote safe transportation practices among all users.
    Explore the installation of automated speed enforcement in work zones.
    Implement Intersection/Driveway Angle Crash Mitigation Program which reviews signalized and unsignalized intersections and driveways for historical and systemic risk of angle/broadside crashes.
    Implement Localized Bottleneck Mitigation Program which reviews top bottlenecks in the State and weighed ranking of vehicle delay and crashes.
    Implement Roadway Departure Mitigation Program which addresses facility types with high risk for roadway departure.
    Implement Safety Corridor Program which addresses crashes on high risk facilities such as two lane and multi lane corridors with high travel speeds, numerous conflict points, and little to no recovery room from roadside hazards.
    Implement Vulnerable Road User Program which address cluster crash areas and high risk facilities.
  Education
    Support education and outreach to educate roadway users.
    Work with the RIDOT communications office to promote success stories from safety infrastructure improvements.        
      **Occupant Protection**

        **EA Type:**
      	Behavioral**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Assess the quality of occupant protection enforcement efforts.
    Develop an occupant protection enforcement work plan.
    Establish an Occupant Protection Task Force to engage leadership from various agencies on occupant protection issues.
    Establish employer and fleet programs to increase seat belt use.
    Explore regulations to increase restraint use.
    Staff key occupant protection program positions
  Education
    Provide continuing education efforts for law enforcement.
    Support education and outreach to provide information concerning occupant protection laws.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Continue sustained high visibility enforcement of occupant protection laws.
  Data
    Improve the quality of occupant restraint use data.
    Use data to target occupant protection efforts.        
      **Speeding**

        **EA Type:**
      	Behavioral**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Establish a Speeding Task Force to engage leadership from various agencies.
  Engineering
    Enhance roadway design to promote safe transportation practices among all users.
  Education
    Provide continuing education efforts for law enforcement.
    Support education and outreach to promote safer driving.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Enforce speeding laws to act as a deterrent to keep people from engaging in speeding and aggressive driving behaviors.
  Data
    Explore new data collection techniques to improve the quality and quantity of data.
    Use data to target speeding initiatives        
      **Traffic Incident Management**

        **EA Type:**
      	Incident Management/EMS**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Build or expand performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of work zone and traffic incident management initiatives.
    Establish or enhance local incident management teams.
    Implement a Traffic Incident Management Plan.
  Engineering
    Implement State-of-the-art technologies that improve the design and management of work zones and traffic incidents.
  Education
    Conduct training on present policies, procedures and laws.
    Promote and maintain work zone and incident management safety and accountability.
  Data
    Improve data analysis of work zones and traffic incident design and implementation.        
      **Vulnerable Road Users**

        **EA Type:**
      	Vulnerable Users**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Establish a Vulnerable Users Task Force to engage leadership from various agencies on issues related to these users.
    Explore regulations to augment the safety of vulnerable users.
  Engineering
    Enhance roadway design to improve vulnerable user safety by improving and creating roadway designs that account for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcycle riders which will improve safe transportation practices among all users.
  Education
    Provide continuing education efforts for law enforcement.
    Support education and outreach to provide information about the unique needs of vulnerable users.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Enforce pedestrian and bicycle laws particularly at locations where vulnerable road user crashes are a problem.
  Data
    Improve the quality of vulnerable user data.
    Use data to target vulnerable user efforts.        
      **Young Drivers**

        **EA Type:**
      	Vulnerable Users**Goals:**
      	The plan does not list goals for this Emphasis Area.**Objectives:**
      	The plan does not list objectives for this Emphasis Area.**Strategies (by type):**Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
    Adopt standards for driving schools to ensure consistent and appropriate education for drivers.
    Advocate for Rhode Island to adopt a decal program to enable law enforcement to better identify drivers operating with a GDL and properly enforce laws.
    Develop and update Younger Driver Plan on a regular basis so that is a “real-time living document”.
    Develop partnerships with youth organizations (e.g. boy scouts, girl scouts, Students Against Destructive Decisions), local coalitions, advocacy groups, and faith-based groups.
    Expand provisions of the Expand provisions of Graduated Driver Licensing.
    Promote use of technology to monitor drivers with a history of violations to discourage future violations.
  Education
    Develop instructional modules to standardize education on key topics and improve outreach effectiveness.
    Encourage driver re-education.
    Improve driver education/preparedness requirements and guidelines.
    Promote use of technology by younger drivers to monitor driving trends and incentivize through insurance programs.
    Use web-based and social media platforms to reach the younger driver audience.
    Utilize existing driver education and licensing data to determine the effectiveness of driver education and preparedness programs.
  Data
    Utilize existing driving programs, such as Treads, to collect data on driving violations and recidivism.
		
    			Participants/Stakeholders
        State Gov't – Highway Safety Office/Governor’s Representative
    Rhode Island Office on Highway Safety
  State Gov't - Motor Vehicle Administration Agency
    Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles
  State Gov't - Education
    Rhode Island Department of Education
  State Gov't - Law Enforcement/Public Safety
    Rhode Island State Police
  State Gov't - Public Health/Human Services
    Rhode Island Department of Health
    Rhode Island Office for the Aging
  State Gov't - Other
    Rhode Island Courts
    Rhode Island Department of Administration
    Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
    Rhode Island Department of Corrections
    Rhode Island Office of Management and Budget
    Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General
    Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal
  Regional Transportation Agency
    Rhode Island Public Transit Authority
    Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority
  Local Gov't (county, city, town)
    City of Providence
  Local Law Enforcement
    Cranston Police Department
    Jamestown Police Department
  Federal Gov't - Transportation
    Federal Highway Administration
    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  University/Transportation Research
    Community College of Rhode Island
  Advocacy/Non-Profit
    American Traffic Safety Services Association
    Mothers Against Drunk Driving
    Providence Responsible Nightlife Organization
    Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition
    Rhode Island Chiefs of Police
    Rhode Island Hospitality Association
    Rhode Island Operation Lifesaver
    Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association
  Hospital/Medical
    Rhode Island Hospital
  Private Company
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