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					SHSP Key Components
									**Lead Agency:**
						Wyoming Department of Transportation
        
									**Time Period Plan Covers:**
						2022
-2026
		
    			**View State's SHSP**
		
					Emphasis Areas
        **Curve 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):**Engineering
    Appropriate roadway surface friction treatments.
    Expand and maintain roadway visibility features (e.g., pavement markings and curve signs).
    Increase roadway lighting.
    Install centerline and edge line rumble strips/stripes.
    Rebuilding curves to meet design standards (e.g., radii and superelevation).
    Remove fixed objects hindering visibility when possible.
    Upgrade and improve shoulder treatments.
  Education
    Train and educate roadway users to properly negotiate curves.
    Use media to educate roadway users about potential dangers associated with curves.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Increase targeted enforcement on high-incident corridors.
  Incident Management/EMS
    Improve emergency response time in rural areas through better planning and communication.        
      **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
    Advocate for tougher immediate sanctions for drivers who drive while impaired (i.e., ignition interlock devices).
    Continue addressing enforcement options for marijuana coming into Wyoming from neighboring states.
    Continue programs aimed at target groups (e.g., young drivers) to educate them on the dangers of impaired driving (i.e., Alive at 25).
    Continue to advocate for harsher penalties for impaired driving.
  Education
    Encourage multi-agency initiatives and task forces to identify effective areas for targeted DWUI enforcement.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Educate roadway users, business owners, and alcohol servers on the dangers of substance-impaired driving.
  Data
    Continue to encourage law enforcement agencies to keep training officers on the dangers of impaired driving and the latest detection methods aimed at stopping impaired driving.        
      **Lane or Road 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
    Enact a primary seatbelt law.
    Encourage communities to adopt local primary seatbelt ordinances.
  Engineering
    Increase the use of available technologies to encourage the use of safety restraints.
    Use overhead signs to encourage the use of safety restraints.
  Education
    Continue to educate the general public and target groups (e.g., young drivers) about the importance of occupant protection.
    Continue to educate the public about child safety laws.
    Educate parents, caregivers, and grandparents about proper selection and installation of child safety and booster seats.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Aggressively enforce child safety laws.
    Aggressively enforce the occupant protection component of current laws.
    Encourage law enforcement agencies to certify more officers as Child Passenger Safety Technicians.        
      **Speeding or Driving Too Fast For Conditions**

        **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
    Expand communication with drivers to alert them of changing road or weather conditions.
    Expand the use of variable messaging signs and variable speed limits in areas with high levels of incidents.
    Identify appropriate speed limits for local roads.
  Education
    Continue to make drivers aware of the dangers of reckless driving and the dangers of speeding.
    Educate drivers and motorcycle riders about the challenges of operating motor vehicles in adverse weather conditions.
    Educate drivers and motorcycle riders about the dangers of aggressive driving.
    Educate drivers and motorcycle riders to be aware of vulnerable road users (pedestrians and bicyclists) along and crossing roadways, especially in suburban areas.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Encourage the continued use of speed monitoring systems.
    Increase targeted enforcement on high-incident corridors.
    Increase the use of visible enforcement programs.        
      **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):**Education
    Educate young drivers on all aspects of safe driving.
    Encourage open communication between parents and young drivers about the dangers of risky driving behaviors.
    Encourage parents to consider the advantage of purchasing safer vehicles for their young drivers.
    Make parents aware of in-vehicle monitoring devices.
  Enforcement/Adjudication
    Encourage anti-texting initiatives.
    Encourage strict enforcement of laws focusing on issues pertaining to young drivers including Graduated Driver’s License, seatbelt laws, distracted driving laws and ordinances, cell phone ordinances, and passenger restrictions.
    Expand enforcement strategies focusing on young drivers.
		
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    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  LTAP/TTAP
    WYT2 LTAP Local Technical Assistance Program
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    Wyoming Pathways U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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