HSIP. Invest in the future. Save lives today.

The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) connects communities and transportation agencies 

with funding to make safety improvements that reduce fatalities and serious injuries on our nation’s public 

roadways. The HSIP maximizes safety benefits for all modes by allowing agencies to accelerate the adoption 

of the most effective transportation safety practices. 

Put your HSIP funds to work, and get everyone home safely.

Get Them Home Safely.

HSIP.

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The Strategy.

The Result.

Alaska’s HSIP maximizes the return on investment. 

The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) employs HSIP to identify and fund projects that 

maximize lives saved and serious injuries eliminated per dollar spent.

Under the Alaska DOT&PF, HSIP identifies, scopes, estimates, and prioritizes candidate safety improvement projects by 

quantitatively evaluating the return of investment in the form of safety benefits. This objective process results in HSIP 

dollars being distributed to the most effective projects from a single statewide fund. The HSIP funding plan typically 

includes a blend of ongoing projects and new projects. 

By implementing a program that blends reactive and 

proactive projects throughout the State’s urban and rural 

locations, Alaska DOT&PF highway safety improvement 

projects have achieved a significant return on investment 

with benefits that were seven times the cost.

Find out which proven treatment could help you save lives.

Source: Alaska 2019 HSIP Report.

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The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is dedicated to 

reducing fatalities and serious injuries through a comprehensive 

program of proactive safety improvement projects. Proactive 

improvements, also known as systemic safety improvements, 

address geometric and roadway characteristics associated with 

severe crash types. Proactive improvements, not only mitigate 

risk at high-crash locations but also prevent future incidents at 

locations that have not experienced any crashes 

With HSIP, you have the power to change the future and save lives. 

Take action before the crash happens.

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HSIP. Take action today to save lives tomorrow.

How do we 

take steps toward 

a safer future?

Address crashes before they happen.

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The Strategy.

The Result.

HSIP helps Minnesota decrease fatal and serious injury rates more than 23% in 3 years

Safety is a core value at the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). Achieving zero fatalities and preventing 

injuries is an agency goal.

Minnesota applies its HSIP funds toward a blended approach that consists of proactive and reactive projects. The projects 

incorporate a spectrum of improvements ranging from low-cost countermeasures (e.g. pavement markings, rumble strips, 

chevrons) to high-cost countermeasures (e.g. shoulder paving, intersection redesign). This blended approach also includes 

non-infrastructure countermeasures (e.g. data analysis tools, safety plan development). 

From 2016 to 2019, MnDOT put 64% of its HSIP funds toward proactive 

projects that were selected through a competitive process. Proactive 

projects focus on improving the safety of the overall system, rather than 

targeting a specific high crash location. 

From 2016 to 2019, MnDOT decreased roadway fatalities by 7% and the 

fatality rate by 10%. Fatal and serious injuries decreased by 21% while the 

fatal and serious injury rate decreased by 23.3%.

To prevent fatalities before a crash happens, start using your HSIP funds 

today for proactive improvements. 

HSIP. Take action today to save lives tomorrow.

Fatal and Serious Injury Rate

Proactive Projects

Between 2016-2019 MnDOT puts HSIP funds 

toward proactive projects 

23.3%

64%

Source: MnDOT.

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The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) provides exclusive funding and guidance for addressing 

safety issues with science-based, data-driven approaches that help agencies reach both short-term and longterm safety goals. 

Leverage your data to diagnose safety issues and to quantify the costs and benefits of safety-related project 

alternatives. This leads to cost-effective, consistent, and sound investment decisions at the right locations. 

Let the data lead you to the issues, and allow HSIP to help you solve them. 

HSIP. Today’s data for tomorrow’s roads.

HSIP is objective, proactive, and consistent - it all adds up. 

Data + HSIP = Safer Roads.

Source: FHWA.
The Strategy.

The Result.

HSIP helps VDOT move toward safety goals through 

data-driven project prioritization. 

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is committed to developing and maintaining a safe, 

multimodal transportation system through data-driven decision-making. 

To make data-driven decisions regarding the use of public funding for safety improvements, VDOT calculates the 

Potential for Safety Improvements (PSI) for each candidate project and location by comparing actual crash frequencies to 

predicted crash frequencies.

By incorporating these calculations in its network screening, VDOT 

identifies the top 100 intersections and top 100 miles of segments with 

the largest PSI annually. This list assists each district with determining 

which site(s) to prioritize based on the data, their practical experience, 

and knowledge of the area.

VDOT estimates that full deployment of a safety plan combining the PSI 

calculations with proactive projects and proven countermeasures will 

save 61 lives and prevent 1,174 injuries per year statewide.

Use data to invest your HSIP funds effectively.

PSI Calculations with 

proactive projects and 

countermeasures will save

61

LIVES

and prevent 

1,174 INJURIES

Source: VDOT 2020 HSIP Report.

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