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					SHSP Key Components
									**Lead Agency:**
						Mississippi Department of Transportation
        
									**Time Period Plan Covers:**
						2019
-2024
				
        					**Vision:**
						Toward Zero Deaths
				
        					**Mission:**
						Save lives and reduce injuries by using partnerships to coordinate and integrate education, enforcement, engineering, and emergency response initiatives.
				
        					**Plan's Goals:**
						To reduce the number of traffic fatalities by 25% to 525 by 2023.
		
    			**View State's SHSP**
		
					Emphasis Areas
        **Reduce Fatal Intersection 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
    Implement Local Road Safety Plans.
  Engineering
    Access Management.
    Add to or upgrade existing geometry at an intersection.
    Add to or upgrade traffic control in place at an intersection.
    Enhance intersection warning and visibility through the installation of low cost systemic signage and striping upgrades.
    Improve sight distance at an intersection.
    Modify existing traffic control at an intersection.        
      **Reduce Fatal Lane Departure 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
    Implement local road safety plans.
  Engineering
    Improve roadway friction.
    Improve roadway geometry.
    Improve the roadside shoulder and clear zone to help reduce the consequences of leaving the roadway.
    Increase the use of edge and centerline rumble stripe or equivalent enhanced delineation on local roadways.
    Install center line rumble strip/stripe or other delineation on rural roadways.
    Install edge line rumble stripe or other delineation on rural roadways.
    Install low cost measures including striping, signing and raised pavement markers on roadways.
    Install median barriers.        
      **Reduce Impaired Driving Fatalities**

        **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
    DUI-(TSRP) – DUI Outreach/Court Monitoring – Continue funding a Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP) to assist with training for prosecutors and law enforcement.
    Evaluation – Evaluate the programs to see that projects that are funded are having the desired effect on the Statewide ID program.
    Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEP).
  Education
    Education – Improve education on new and/or updated laws related to alcohol/drug impaired driving.
    Training – Continue funding the MOHS Law Enforcement (LE) Training Program.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    High Visibility Enforcement (HVE).
    Participate in the National Blitz campaign.
    Public Information and Enforcement.        
      **Reduce the Number of Unbelted Vehicle Occupant Fatalities**

        **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
    Statewide Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Coordination Program.
    Teen Driver Seatbelt Program.
  Education
    Child Passenger Seat Technician Training.
    Public Information and Education.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Child Passenger Seat Enforcement.
    High Visibility Enforcement.        
      **Reduce Unlicensed, Suspended, or Revoked (USR) License Drivers**

        **EA Type:**
      	Legislative/Policy**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
    Equalize Penalty & Improve Tracking for USR driving.
    Ignition Interlock Device.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Apply Special Enforcement Practices/Increased Enforcement in Selected Areas.
		
    			Participants/Stakeholders
        State Gov't – Highway Safety Office/Governor’s Representative
    Mississippi Office of Highway Safety
  State Gov't - Department of Transportation
    Mississippi Department of Transportation
    Mississippi Office of State Aid Road Construction
  State Gov't - Education
    Mississippi Department of Education
  State Gov't - Law Enforcement/Public Safety
    Mississippi Department of Public Safety (Including Planning and State Patrol)
  State Gov't - Public Health/Human Services
    Mississippi Department of Health
    Mississippi Department of Mental Health
  State Gov't - Other
    Mississippi Department of Revenue
    MS Alcohol Beverage Control
  Metropolitan Planning Organization
    Metropolitan Planning Organizations - GRPC, Hattiesburg, Memphis, Central MS Planning and Development District
  Local Gov't (county, city, town)
    City of Jackson, Biloxi, Brookhaven, Gulfport, Hattiesburg
    City of Natchez, Olive Branch, Southaven, Tupelo, Vicksburg
    Harrison County Road Department
  Local Law Enforcement
    Hinds County Sheriff’s Office
    Meridian Police Department
    Oxford Police Department/MS Law Enforcement Training Director
    Sherman Police Department
  Local Public Health/Human Services
    MASEP-MS Alcohol Safety Education Program
  Federal Gov't - Transportation
    Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
  University/Transportation Research
    Mississippi Judicial College
    Mississippi State University – Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems
    Mississippi State University – Social Science Research Center
    University of Alabama/CAPS
  Advocacy/Non-Profit
    American Academy of Pediatrics
    District Mississippi Trucking Association
    Mississippi Association of Supervisors
    Mississippi Brain Injury Association
    Mississippi Coroner-Medical Examiner’s Association
    Mississippi Municipal League
    Mississippi Operation Lifesaver
    Mississippi Police Chiefs’ Association
    Mississippi Railroad Association
    Mississippi Road Builders Association
    Mississippi Safe Kids
    Mississippi Sheriffs’ Association
    Mothers Against Drunk Driving
    Sobriety Trained Officers Representing Mississippi (STORM)
  Hospital/Medical
    University of Mississippi Medical Center
  Legal
    Office of the Attorney General
  Private Company
    American Automobile Association (AAA)
    AMR Ambulance Services
    Preusser Research Group U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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