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					SHSP Key Components
									**Lead Agency:**
						Texas Department of Transportation
        
									**Time Period Plan Covers:**
						2022
-2027
				
        					**Vision:**
						Texas envisions a future with zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
				
        					**Mission:**
						Texans will work together on the road to zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
		
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					Emphasis Areas
        **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):**Engineering
    Increase installation of engineering countermeasures known to reduce distracted driving.
    Use technology to reduce distracted driving crashes, serious injuries, and fatalities.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Improve and increase enforcement capabilities for addressing distracted driving.
  Data
    Utilize data and information to communicate the dangers of distracted driving to teens, their parents, employers, public officials, and others.        
      **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):**Education
    Increase education for all road users on the impact of impaired driving and its prevention.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Increase data, training, and resources for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, toxicologists, judges, and community supervision personnel in the area of alcohol and/or other drugged-driving.
    Increase officer contacts with impaired drivers through regular traffic enforcement.        
      **Intersection Safety**

        **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):**Engineering
    Expand intersection safety practices through planning, design, and implementation.
    Reduce intersection violations.        
      **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
    Prioritize efforts geographically and demographically based on lower use rates.
  Education
    Improve education and outreach efforts.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Increase occupant restraint use through short term, high-visibility enforcement.        
      **Post-Crash Care**

        **EA Type:**
      	Other**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
    Facilitate current and future State and Metro TIM teams meetings.
  Engineering
    Identify and implement engineering solutions where possible to reduce response times.
    Utilize technology, policy, and available personnel to investigate and report crashes more efficiently to enable rapid crash scene clearance.
  Data
    Improve data collection and analysis techniques.
  Incident Management/EMS
    Increase and improve emergency responder training.        
      **Roadway & Lane Departures**

        **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):**Engineering
    Keep vehicles from encroaching on the roadside or opposite lane.
    Minimize the consequences of vehicles leaving the road.
    Minimize the likelihood of crashing in adverse conditions.        
      **Speed Related**

        **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 target speed limits and road characteristics to reduce speeding on state, county & local roadways.
  Data
    Improve quality of crash data contributing factors related specifically to speed.
    Leverage data to improve engineering, education, and enforcement.        
      **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
    Develop strategic pedestrian safety plans tailored to local conditions.
  Engineering
    Improve vulnerable road user networks.
    Reduce vulnerable road user crashes on urban arterials and local roadways.
  Education
    Improve driver and vulnerable road user safety awareness and behavior.
		
    			Participants/Stakeholders
        State Gov't - Department of Transportation
    Texas Department of Transportation
  State Gov't - Motor Vehicle Administration Agency
    Department of Motor Vehicles
  State Gov't - Law Enforcement/Public Safety
    Texas Department of Public Safety
  State Gov't - Public Health/Human Services
    Texas Department of State Health Services
  Metropolitan Planning Organization
    North Central Texas Council of Governments
    Permian Basin Metropolitan Planning Organization
  Local Gov't (county, city, town)
    City of Austin
  Local Law Enforcement
    Denton Police Department
  Federal Gov't - Transportation
    Federal Highway Administration
    National High Traffic Safety Administration
  Advocacy/Non-Profit
    Central Texas Families for Safe Streets
    Texas Association of County Engineers & Road Administrators
  Private Company
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