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                        HSIP National Summary Baseline Report: 2009-2012


            
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                HSIP Project Summary
States provide project specific information for all projects obligated with HSIP funds during the state-defined reporting period in their annual HSIP reports. An obligation is a commitment – the Federal Government's promise to pay the States for the Federal Share of a project's eligible cost.  The reporting period is defined by the State and can be calendar year, state fiscal year or federal fiscal year.

As per the HSIP Reporting Guidance, project specific information includes:

Improvement Category (see Appendix A for complete descriptions)
	Project output (e.g., miles of rumble strips)
	Project cost
	Relationship to the State's strategic highway safety plan (SHSP) (i.e. emphasis area, strategy)Limited analysis of the project information can be done because not all states have submitted reports in accordance with the HSIP Reporting Guidance. Full use of the HSIP online reporting tool and compliance with the most recent HSIP reporting guidance will enable more complete and accurate reporting of national HSIP project data. In addition, HSIP projects come in all shapes and sizes. For example, some HSIP projects may be much bigger in scope than others, countermeasure installations across multiple sites, or non-infrastructure projects (i.e. transportation safety planning, data improvements).

Based on the information contained in the 2009-2012 HSIP reports and summarized in Table 2 below, States obligated $6.5B of HSIP funds for more than 9,000 projects over the four-year period. These obligations include not only HSIP funds apportioned during the reporting period (2009-2012), but also HSIP funds available from previous years' apportionments. The average cost per project across all years isnearly $750,000 per project.

**Table 2:** Total Number and Cost of Projects by Year

Year
			2009
			2010
			2011
			2012
			TotalNumber of Projects
			1684
			2386
			2523
			2429
			9022Number of Projects (with cost info.)
			1609
			2348
			2449
			2374
			8780Cost of projects
			$1.61B
			$1.46B
			$1.77B
			$1.65B
			$6.50BAvg. Cost Per Project
			$1.00M
			$620,684
			$725,550
			$695,721
			$740,287**Note:** Not all states provided cost data for all projects

A further disaggregation of the HSIP project data from 2009 to 2012 is provided in Appendix B (Number of Projects by Improvement Category) and Appendix C (Cost of Projects by Improvement Category). Figures 1 and 2 present this data and summarize the number and cost, respectively, of highway safety improvement projects by improvement category between 2009 and 2012. The improvement categories are consistent with example highway safety improvement projects included in 23 U.S.C. 148, 23 CFR 924 and the HSIP Reporting Guidance. The improvement categories related to railway-highway crossings include those projects obligated using HSIP funds. The HSIP National Summary Baseline Report does not include projects obligated with Railway-Highway Crossing Program funds available under 23 U.S.C. 130.

Please note that multiple improvement categories may apply to each project; however, improvement categories are selected based on the primary purpose of the project. For example, the State recently completed a pavement overlay at intersection A to improve the skid resistance on the approaches to the intersection. This project could be categorized as (1) intersection safety improvement, (4) installation of skid resistant surface and (11) improvement of highway signage and pavement markings. The State chose improvement category (4) installation of skid resistant surface since that was the primary purpose of the project.

For the number of projects per improvement category for all years (2009-2012), four out of five of the top improvement categories (Appendix B) used by the states were:

(1) An intersection safety improvement project
	(2) Pavement and shoulder widening
	(11) Improvement of highway signage and pavement markings
	(17) Installation of guardrails, barriers (including barriers between construction work zones and traffic lanes for the safety of road user and workers), and crash attenuatorsThe remaining top improvement category for 2009 was "(23) Other", for 2010 and 2011 "(3) Installation of rumble strips or other warning devices", and 2012 "(13) Installation of a traffic control or other warning device at a location with high crash potential".

**Figure 1:** Number of projects per improvement category (2009-2012)



**Figure 2:** Cost of project (millions) per improvement category (2009-2012)



For the cost of projects per improvement category for all years (2009-2012), four out of five of the improvement categories (Appendix C) for which states obligated the most HSIP funds were:

(1) An intersection safety improvement project
	(2) Pavement and shoulder widening
	(3) Installation of rumble strips or other warning devices
	(17) Installation of guardrails, barriers (including barriers between construction work zones and traffic lanes for the safety of road user and workers), and crash attenuatorsThe remaining top improvement category for 2009-2011 was "(23) Other and 2012 "(11) Improvement of highway signage and pavement markings". The total cost of projects for all improvement categories has fluctuated each year with 2011 as the highest.

Table 3 shows the average cost per project by improvement category as well as the percentage of projects in each improvement category that reported cost. This percentage was calculated by dividing the total number of projects with cost information by the total number of projects with improvement category information. For example, in 2009 there were 601 projects categorized as (1) intersection safety project but only 572 of these projects had cost information. Therefore, the percentage of projects reporting cost is 95 percent. It is also important to reiterate that HSIP projects come in all shapes and sizes and that some may be much bigger in scope than others. These points might partly explain some of the variation in average cost across years, as shown in Table 3, below. Based on the cost of projects reported by the States, the lowest average cost projects are in the following categories:

(19) Installation and maintenance of signs (including fluorescent yellow-green signs) at pedestrian-bicycle crossings and in school zones.
	(16) Planning integrated interoperable emergency communications equipment, operational activities or traffic enforcement activities (including law enforcement assistance) relating to work zone safety.
	(22) Conducting road safety audits
	(13) Installation of a traffic control or other warning device at a location with high crash potential
	(14) Transportation safety planning**Table 3:** Average Cost per Project and Percentage of Cost Reported by Improvement Category

Improvement Category
			2009 Average Cost
			2009 %
			2010 Average Cost
			2010 %
			2011 Average Cost
			2011 %
			2012 Average Cost
			2012 %
			Average Cost (all years)(1) Intersection safety project
			95
			$627,896.59
			97
			$768,401.82
			98
			$692,653.61
			99
			$737,805.14
			$884,351.35(2) Pavement/shoulder widening
			98
			$1,138,180.29
			100
			$1,159,550.56
			98
			$1,164,369.39
			100
			$1,442,992.48
			$2,411,968.24(3) Rumble strips
			100
			$277,678.38
			100
			$299,008.89
			100
			$665,821.28
			100
			$360,032.39
			$591,147.28(4) Skid resistant surface
			96
			$646,000.78
			89
			$726,957.43
			100
			$600,117.95
			95
			$672,593.71
			$803,310.16(5) Ped/bike safety project
			100
			$460,968.26
			95
			$407,154.96
			99
			$363,937.87
			94
			$448,518.98
			$925,071.78(6) Rail-highway hazard elimination
			100
			$597,711.76
			100
			$144,863.00
			100
			$318,095.06
			100
			$877,734.37
			$3,515,048.60(7) Rail-highway protective devices
			100
			$1,899,480.00
			100
			$318,804.93
			100
			$918,084.20
			100
			$619,303.66
			$524,169.06(8) Rail-highway enforcement
			n/a
			n/a
			n/a
			$2,000,000.00
			100
			n/a
			n/a
			$2,000,000.00
			n/a(9) Traffic calming
			100
			$1,021,726.20
			100
			$656,738.53
			100
			$92,366.50
			100
			$700,701.28
			$661,545.00(10) Eliminate roadside obstacle
			97
			$223,563.56
			100
			$464,126.14
			99
			$343,520.54
			99
			$325,909.21
			$317,696.97(11) Improve sign/pavement marking
			99
			$343,196.73
			99
			$323,510.58
			100
			$473,370.42
			94
			$392,900.46
			$405,469.61(12) Emergency vehicle priority control
			67
			$37,401.50
			100
			n/a
			n/a
			$114,300.00
			100
			$852,022.67
			$2,404,366.50(13) Traffic control device
			88
			$153,491.01
			99
			$273,956.79
			100
			$401,091.28
			96
			$319,119.79
			$413,192.47(14) Transportation safety planning
			100
			$272,905.69
			100
			$508,930.60
			100
			$278,791.33
			100
			$320,730.81
			$224,932.77(15) Data collection and analysis
			100
			$327,867.32
			100
			$444,720.22
			100
			$420,979.56
			100
			$413,804.31
			$507,085.50(16) Work zone emergency comm.
			100
			$405,435.05
			100
			$103,276.52
			100
			$322,515.40
			100
			$231,477.99
			$51,533.33(17) Guardrails, barriers, etc.
			100
			$666,369.41
			99
			$1,401,261.02
			100
			$819,354.02
			98
			$927,128.74
			$828,400.60(18) Vehicle/wildlife crash measures
			100
			$154,303.94
			100
			$361,946.52
			100
			$145,896.63
			100
			$556,220.75
			$2,805,356.80(19) Ped/bike signs
			100
			$147,516.25
			100
			$137,096.86
			100
			$86,986.50
			100
			$111,000.91
			$22,412.00(21) High risk rural roads projects
			100
			$56,435.71
			100
			n/a
			n/a
			$837,257.25
			100
			$323,829.23
			$232,850.50(22) Road safety audits
			100
			$94,483.40
			100
			$127,296.67
			100
			$438,298.13
			100
			$271,421.62
			$267,832.40(23) Other
			88
			$901,484.33
			98
			$6,257,329.70
			100
			$1,283,747.02
			92
			$1,362,477.90
			$1,192,624.47**Note:** Not all states provided cost data for all projects in a given improvement category. Therefore, the columns labeled as "%" are a calculation of the total number of projects that reported cost divided by the total number of projects in each improvement category.

Table 4 and Figure 3 present the number of HSIP projects categorized by SHSP emphasis area between 2009 and 2012. For consistency and national reporting purposes, each State's SHSP emphasis areas were assigned to the AASHTO SHSP emphasis areas. A complete description of each emphasis area is included in Appendix D. Please note that States often times categorize a single project by several SHSP Emphasis Areas. Therefore, for the purpose of Table 4 and Figure 3, a single project may be counted more than once. For example, the State recently completed an intersection improvement project that enhanced safety for pedestrians. This project could be categorized as EA 9 Making Walking and Street Crossing Safer as well as EA 17 Improving the Design and Operation of Intersections and is therefore counted once in each category.

For the number of projects per SHSP Emphasis Area for all years (2009-2012), the top five SHSP Emphasis Areas guiding HSIP investments are:

EA 15 Keeping Vehicles on the Roadway
	EA 17 Improving the Design and Operation of Intersections
	EA 16 Minimizing the Consequences of Leaving the Roadway
	EA 18 Reducing Head-on and Cross Median Crashes
	EA 9 Making Walking and Street Crossing Safer**Table 4:** Number of HSIP Projects by SHSP Emphasis Area per Year

SHSP Emphasis Area
			2009
			2010
			2011
			2012
			TotalEA 1 Young Drivers
			0
			1
			0
			2
			3EA 2 Driver Licensure
			0
			0
			0
			0
			0EA 3 Older Drivers
			0
			1
			0
			2
			3EA 4 Aggressive Driving
			2
			24
			1
			16
			43EA 5 Impaired Driving
			0
			0
			2
			6
			8EA 6 Keeping Drivers Alert
			0
			4
			8
			5
			17EA 7 Driver Safety Awareness
			4
			0
			18
			5
			27EA 8 Belt Usage
			0
			1
			4
			0
			5EA 9 Pedestrian Safety
			27
			85
			43
			59
			214EA 10 Bicyclist Safety
			4
			1
			10
			9
			24EA 11 Motorcyclist Safety
			0
			0
			0
			0
			0EA 12 Large Truck Safety
			3
			0
			4
			2
			9EA 13 Vehicle Safety Enhancements
			0
			0
			0
			0
			0EA 14 Vehicle-Train Crashes
			24
			4
			8
			30
			66EA 15 Keeping Vehicles on the Road
			386
			724
			918
			635
			2,663EA 16 Roadside Obstacles
			170
			123
			778
			465
			1,536EA 17 Intersection Safety
			313
			458
			739
			777
			2,287EA 18 Head-on/Cross Median Crashes
			101
			218
			739
			321
			1,379EA 19 Work Zone Safety
			10
			11
			12
			1
			34EA 20 Emergency Services
			13
			2
			0
			2
			17EA 21 Decision Support Systems
			3
			6
			32
			41
			82EA 22 Safety Management Systems
			3
			0
			21
			32
			56**Figure 3:** Number of HSIP projects per SHSP emphasis area
      
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