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                Safety Performance Management (Safety PM) Overview
    

    
    
          Safety Performance Management (Safety PM) is part of the overall Transportation Performance Management (TPM) program, which FHWA defines as a strategic approach that uses system information to make investment and policy decision to achieve national performance goals. The Safety PM Final Rule supports the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP), as it establishes safety performance measure requirements for the purpose of carrying out the HSIP and to assess fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.

The Safety PM Final Rule establishes five performance measures as the five-year rolling averages to include:

Number of Fatalities
	Rate of Fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
	Number of Serious Injuries
	Rate of Serious Injuries per 100 million VMT
	Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Non-motorized Serious InjuriesThe Safety PM Final Rule also establishes the process for State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to establish and report their safety targets, and the process that FHWA will use to assess whether State DOTs have met or made significant progress toward meeting their safety targets. The Safety PM Final Rule also establishes a common national definition for serious injuries. Below are helpful resources to support the implementation of the Safety PM Final Rule.

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