Highway Safety Improvement Program

2013 Annual Report

Nevada Department of Transportation

Prepared by:

Ken Mammen, P.E.

Chief Safety Engineer 

Nevada Department of Transportation

1263 S. Stewart Street 

Carson City, NV 89712

(775) 888-7468
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents _______________________________________________________ 2

Table of Figures ________________________________________________________ 2

Program Structure ______________________________________________________ 3

Administration______________________________________________________________ 3

Methodology _______________________________________________________________ 4

Innovative Practices _________________________________________________________ 5

Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan _________________________________________________ 5

Safety Management Plans ___________________________________________________________ 7

Zero Fatalities Traffic Safety Campaign_________________________________________________ 7

Coordination with Office of Traffic Safety_______________________________________________ 9

Transportation Safety Planning Framework ____________________________________________ 10

I 80 Corridor System Master Plan (CSMP)______________________________________________ 10

Proven Safety Countermeasures _____________________________________________________ 10

Highway Safety Manual (HSM) ______________________________________________________ 12

Road Safety Audits (RSA) ___________________________________________________________ 13

Symposium on Traffic Safety ________________________________________________________ 15

Systemic Safety Projects ___________________________________________________________ 15

Progress in Implementing the HSIP projects _________________________________ 16

Funding __________________________________________________________________ 16

Safety Improvement Projects _________________________________________________ 17

Current Safety Improvement Projects __________________________________________ 17

Assessment of the Improvements (Program Evaluation) _______________________ 18

Statewide Crash Trends______________________________________________________ 18

Program Effectiveness_______________________________________________________ 18

Protection of Data _____________________________________________________ 19

Table of Figures

Table 1: Current Safety Projects..................................................................................... 20

Table 2: 2013 Safety Funding ......................................................................................... 21

Figure 1: Fatality Trend................................................................................................. 22

Figure 2: Fatality Rate Trend ........................................................................................ 23

Figure 3: Injury Trend ................................................................................................... 24

Figure 4: Injury Rate Trend........................................................................................... 25
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Program Structure

Administration

This annual Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) report for 2013

summarizes the activities of the Nevada Department of Transportation’s HSIP as 

required by Title 23 USC (Section 148). Available program funds for the purpose 

of this report are considered to be those funds obligated during the 2013 federal 

fiscal year. The activities of the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)

are primarily designed to develop safety improvement projects for the following

areas:

• Systemic roadway improvements

o Rural lane departure crash mitigation

o Rural intersection low cost safety improvements

o Urban intersection related crash mitigation

o Safety management plans

• Pedestrian related crash mitigation

• High crash locations (intersections and roadway segments)

The crash data on all public roadways contained in this report is extracted from 

the Nevada Citation and Accident Tracking System (NCATS) and Brazos crash 

databases, and prepared for Safety Engineering’s analysis as a normalized 

view. After the crash data is downloaded from the NCATS and Brazos databases, 

it is processed through our geo-location software and is linearly referenced to the 

statewide street centerline data. The geo-location software tools automate the 

cleanup of location attributes and assign a spatial location to the crash data 

through a series of database procedures.

The HSIP program is administered by the Safety Engineering section a centrally 

located component of the NDOT. The methods used by the Safety Engineering 
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section to identify, select, implement, and evaluate safety improvement projects 

have been compiled in the NDOT’s “Safety Procedural Manual,” implemented in 

1980, amended in 1990, and 2010.

Methodology

The NDOT’s “Safety Procedural Manual” and subsequent modifications to our 

Hazard Elimination Program details the method for identifying and addressing 

High Crash Locations (HCL’s) including locations on locally owned and 

maintained roadways. Each crash study of a problem area compares crashes

using all crash types and all severities (fatal, injury and property damage only)

with intersection or roadway geometrics. Detailed crash data is stored in NCATS 

derived databases.

Safety Engineering’s Safety Management System (SMS) uses both commercial 

off the shelf (COTS) and custom GIS applications to spatially locate HCL’s. 

Under NDOT’s Hazard Elimination Program, safety improvements are eligible 

for federal funding if they meet the following criteria:

• On a public roadway

• Tied to the Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)

• At identified HCL’s

• Improvements meet a positive Benefit Cost

• One of the nine proven FHWA countermeasures systemically applied

All Safety Projects identified that meet the above criteria are then evaluated and 

prioritized. The HCL’s are prioritized by benefit/cost analysis and the systemic 

improvements are prioritized by roadway function class and crash history. When 

safety funds are not available for an identified hazard, i.e. those projects with 

lower priorities or do not meet one of the criteria above; the project is often 

incorporated into a large state or local project using funds appropriated for the 
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larger project whenever possible. Minor improvements are scheduled with 

maintenance forces when feasible.

Other activities include involvement in NCATS, a statewide system for electronic 

collection and dissemination of citation and crash data; exploring further analytic 

techniques of our GIS based SMS, implementation and enhancement of the

NDOT Road Safety Audit (RSA) program and revision and implementation of 

Nevada’s SHSP. Nevada’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) has identified 

the following five critical emphasis areas:

1. Pedestrians

2. Impaired Driving

3. Seat Belts

4. Intersections

5. Lane Departures

Table 1 provides information on the extent that Highway Safety Improvement 

projects align with the States SHSP.

Innovative Practices 

Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan

During FY2013, five key activities were conducted for the implementation of the 

Nevada SHSP. These included the adoption of performance measures to track the 

impact of strategies contained in the SHSP, the hosting of the Nevada Safety 

Summit in November 2012, the development of the first annual Nevada SHSP 

Annual Report, the involvement in a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 

SHSP Peer to Peer Exchange, and the hosting of the 2013 Nevada SHSP Road 

Show. Brief descriptions of these five key activities are provided below. 

Recurring activities for the SHSP included semi-annual meetings of the Nevada 

Executive Committee on Traffic Safety (NECTS), and quarterly meetings for the 

SHSP Technical Working Group, five SHSP Critical Emphasis Area (CEA) 
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teams, and the Data Team. The Strategic Communications Alliance (SCA) reorganized its format to become a provider of monthly messages. 

Performance Measures

Each of the five SHSP CEA teams developed a series of performance measures to 

track the impact of strategies adopted by each CEA, which tie to the number of 

fatalities and serious injuries. In addition, the teams refined internal performance 

metrics to ensure activities, or outputs, associated with CEA strategies can be 

measured.

2012 Nevada Safety Summit

The 2012 Nevada Safety Summit was held on November 7-8, 2012 at Texas 

Station in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 200 attendees attended the two day 

event which was comprised of sessions covering 20 traffic safety topics, with 

spotlight on the five emphasis areas of the Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan 

(SHSP) and the overall theme of involving “Everyone” in statewide traffic safety. 

The SHSP Annual Awards were held during the Summit with eight awards 

handed out, reflecting the five emphasis areas, data analysis, communications, and 

leadership. A special leadership award was also presented to recognize significant 

achievements in Nevadan traffic safety.

Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan Annual Report

In 2012, the CEA teams adopted a series of performance measures to track the

impact of the strategies adopted by each CEA, all of which tie to the number of 

fatalities and serious injuries. This report shows these performance measures and 

supporting data through 2011, the latest year for which data was available. 

SHSP Peer Exchange

Nevada participated in a FHWA-sponsored SHSP Peer-to-Peer Exchange on May 

22-23, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the peer exchange was to 

identify strategies, tools, and techniques for engaging Metropolitan Planning 

Organizations (MPO) in the process of implementing and evaluating the SHSP 

and the national strategy of Toward Zero Deaths (TZD). Nevada was joined by 
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Louisiana and Utah with each state contributing lesson learned from their 

implementation and evaluation approaches.

2013 Nevada SHSP Road Show

During calendar years without a Nevada Safety Summit, a SHSP Road Show is 

held to inform the public about the activities of the SHSP and to recruit new 

participants for the SHSP. The Road Show is comprised of several meetings 

across the state. The September 9-13, 2013 edition of the Road Show reached out 

to safety stakeholders in Henderson, Las Vegas, Reno, and Elko. The SHSP 

Annual Awards were presented to winners during the Road Show.

Safety Management Plans

In early 2012 the NDOT’s Safety Engineering section started working on a Safety 

Management Plan (SMP). This management plan was established for evaluating 

critical roadway corridors and is an effective way to address safety issues that can 

be identified and mitigated as a statewide safety improvement plan. Although the 

SMP has a similar process to a Road Safety Audit (RSA), it is a more in-depth 

review of the roadway corridor with public and stake holders’ input that include 

observation of all road users such as pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and vehicular 

interactions; and the safety issues associated with those interactions are recorded 

for mitigation.

Zero Fatalities Traffic Safety Campaign 

The state of Nevada’s Zero Fatalities public outreach campaign was launched in 

early 2011 to engage motorists in saving lives by following five fundamental 

driving safety tips. The campaign is a joint effort, leveraging and coordinating 

NDOT and Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) resources to save lives by providing a 

powerful, cohesive and instantly-recognizable traffic safety campaign focusing on 

the five core driving safety messages defined by the state’s SHSP.

Campaign Elements

Some of the public outreach channels the campaign utilized include: 

TV ads
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Radio ads

Billboards

On-line and Interactive Advertising (Google, social media, HULU and more)

Advertising in Select Gas Stations

Advertising at UNLV/UNR/Las Vegas 51s/Reno Aces and other sporting events

Community and Safety Events 

Presentations to Driver’s Education Classes

Public Relations (media interviews, etc.)

Campaign Updates

While continuing to heavily utilize the public outreach methods noted above, the 

campaign greatly expanded its reach in fiscal year 2013 in large part due to 

partnerships. Two ambassador training sessions were held to further educate and 

incorporate agencies, organizations and individuals into Zero Fatalities activities. 

The sessions resulted in further collaboration, such as Zero Fatalities pedestrian 

safety messages displayed for Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of 

Washoe County transit riders.

Many other entities such as renowned Las Vegas performing artists Blue Man 

Group also joined the Zero Fatalities campaign. The group produced television 

and radio public service announcements, traffic safety flyers for rental cars and 

much more reminding motorists to not drive distracted.

As a further component of the state’s traffic safety outreach efforts, year-to-date 

traffic fatality counts also began being periodically displayed on freeway digital 

message signs to raise traffic safety awareness.

Campaign Results

By late 2012, the campaign had made 146 million impressions. Also by late 2012, 

95% of Nevadans were exposed to the Zero Fatalities message, and approximately 

half of all Nevadans report being directly aware of and specifically remembering 

the campaign. Public opinion polling shows that 70% of Nevadans polled state 

that the campaign helped influence them to focus on the road. In addition, other 
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states continue to approach NDOT to use our Zero Fatalities “Man on the Street” 

video as a template to help kick off and get buy-in for their state’s zero fatalities 

campaigns.

Coordination with Office of Traffic Safety

The NDOT Safety Engineering team continues to coordinate with the Office of 

Traffic Safety (OTS). This coordination has been ongoing since the inception of 

the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). NDOT has funded behavioral 

components of OTS programs for several years now with Flex Funding from the 

Highway Safety Improvement Funds. 

For Federal Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13), NDOT collaborated with OTS to support 

both the paid media/outreach and the data-driven high visibility enforcement 

(HVE) components of the OTS traffic safety and public education programs. 

These efforts focused on seat belt safety, impaired driving prevention, distracted 

driving prevention, and pedestrian safety. Paid media is a large part of the OTS 

marketing strategy. The positive effect of these safety initiatives is amplified by 

syncing the state’s Joining Forces enforcement timing and the OTS paid media 

schedule with the national enforcement and media calendars. The state unifies the 

public messaging by reinforcing the Zero Fatalities goal as a part of all these 

programs.

In particular, the high visibility enforcement focusing on intersection safety was 

highly successful. The state’s 22 law enforcement agencies came together and 

collaborated during three separate events in FY13. In total, officers issued 17,556 

citations. From those citations, 35 were DUI arrests; 3,587 for speeding; 2,451 for 

cell phone use; 2,337 for red light running, and making contact (stops) with 

13,734 drivers.

The impaired driving prevention paid media campaigns were also particularly 

successful in FY13. NDOT and OTS ran three campaigns in support of core 

messages such as “Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving” and “Plan Ahead and 
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Designate a Sober Driver.” The campaigns spanned six calendar months and 

grossed nearly a hundred million audience impressions across TV ads, radio ads, 

online ads, billboards and bus ads, event participation, sponsorship support and 

earned media coverage.

Transportation Safety Planning Framework

The NDOT along with the following four states DOTs’, Arkansas, Florida, Maine 

and Louisiana, are lead states in a national effort to improve transportation safety 

planning efforts. This initiative is part of an NCHRP Project 08-76 and is being 

compiled by Cambridge Systematics and is being evaluated in three steps, 

Implementation, Testing and Evaluation. This project is in the Implementation

stage and all of the lead states are in the process of discussing their progress in 

implementing the seven steps of the transportation safety planning framework that 

has been developed.

I 80 Corridor System Master Plan (CSMP)

Safety Engineering is Co-Chairing the Safety Section of the CSMP. This CSMP 

is a multi state, (Nevada, California, Utah and Wyoming) partnership to provide 

mobility and transportation solutions throughout the I-80 corridor, now and in the 

future. This partnership has fourteen working groups and all of them are looking 

at the Livability Principles that have been embraced by the Partnership for 

Sustainable Communities, an interagency partnership between Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD), Department of Transportation (DOT) and 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Proven Safety Countermeasures

As identified in the “Guidance Memorandum on Promoting the Implementation of 

Proven Safety Countermeasures” the NDOT Safety Engineering Division utilized 

many of these countermeasures in their systematic planning approach to safety 

improvements throughout the state. The following Proven Safety 

Countermeasures have been considered and incorporated into NDOT’s safety 

program:
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Corridor Access Management

This proven counter measure is being evaluated and included into the analysis of 

our Safety Management Plans. See Safety Management Plans.

Road Safety Audits

The RSA program is very active in Nevada and has been incorporated as a 

standard for all new projects. See RSA section below.

Longitudinal Rumble Strips and Rumble Stripes on 2-lane roads

Both edge line and centerline rumble stripes are standard at NDOT. NDOT 

Safety Engineering is currently considering the use of 6 inch rumble stripes on 

roadways with narrower shoulders and using this 6 inch rumble strip with a, 48 

foot rumble / 12 foot gap pattern, to accommodate bicycles.

Median Barriers

Median Barriers have been defined and incorporated into the NDOT Design 

Guidelines for Cable Median Barrier (CBR) systems and installed at various 

locations within the state. Future CBR installations are being included in projects 

along I-15 and I-80.

Safety Edge

Safety Edge has been accepted as a NDOT standard and several test locations 

have been installed as a safety improvement during this reporting timeframe.

Roundabouts 

NDOT Safety Engineering continues to promote and program roundabouts in 

locations throughout the state. 

Backplates with Retroflective Boarders

NDOT Safety has recently coordinated with the Traffic Management Division to 

program a project which will update the traffic light backplates with retroflective 

boarders.

Enhanced Delineation and Friction for Horizontal Curves

Horizontal curves have been identified thought out the state, mainly in rural 

locations, to provide enhanced delineations, friction surfaces, or additional 
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signage. These projects will be incorporated systematically into the rural roads 

programs.

Highway Safety Manual (HSM)

The NDOT Safety Engineering has been continuing their strategic deployment of 

the HSM. During fiscal year 2013, the following is a summary of the main 

accomplishments:

• Hosted quarterly HSM Implementation Task Force Meetings with 

representation from FHWA, NDOT Front Office, Roadway Design, Traffic 

Operations, Scoping, Safety and Districts 1, 2 and 3 as well as the four 

Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in Nevada.

• Participated in the NCHRP Project 17-50 Lead States Initiative for 

Implementing the HSM as a Support State.

• Joined the FHWA Pooled Fund Study on HSM Implementation and 

participated in the face-to-face meeting in January 2013 as well as numerous 

conference calls and project document reviews. 

• Purchased 30 copies of the HSM to be distributed to groups within NDOT and 

the MPOs that are actively involved in HSM Implementation.

• Hosted a two day HSM Practitioner’s Guide for Rural Two-Lane Roads and 

Rural Multilane Highways & Urban/Suburban Arterials in Carson City that 

was instructed by the FHWA Resource Center in April 2013.

• Hosted a one hour High Level Overview Training on the HSM in June 2013.

• Hosted a 1⁄2 day hands-on training on the Interactive Highway Safety Design 

Model (IHSDM) in Carson City that was instructed by FHWA Technical 

Assistance in June 2013. 

• Established an agreement with the University of Nevada Reno Center for 

Advanced Transportation Education and Research to support HSM 

Implementation in Nevada. Tasks include Predictive Method Safety 
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Performance Function (SPF) calibration and independent SPF development, 

HSM before and after procedures and HSM application case studies. 

• Used the University of Nevada Las Vegas to develop a Safety Analyst model 

for network screening and safety analysis for the Las Vegas Metropolitan 

Area.

• Developed the preliminary Nevada Project Safety Process, which describes 

the proposed process to estimate the safety impacts (impact to number and 

severity of crashes) for all transportation improvement projects. 

• Applied the HSM predictive method to a roadway scoping project and a 

preliminary roundabout design and are in the process of applying the HSM to 

numerous additional ongoing projects.

Road Safety Audits (RSA)

The NDOT Safety Engineering regularly uses Road Safety Audits (RSA) on 

Nevada roadways particularly on ongoing design projects; an opportunity to 

include safety improvements for all road users. There were 20 RSAs performed in 

2012 and there have been 15 RSAs in 2013 as of August 2013. The RSA 

program primarily focused on 3R preservation projects for NDOT, and 

projects/studies for the City of Las Vegas, and Washoe and Southern Nevada 

Regional Transportation Commission. 

Tribal Transportation Planning:

In 2012 and 2013, NDOT Safety Engineering had performed several Road Safety 

Audits for Tribal Transportation Planning Department specifically those requested 

by Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, 

Washoe Tribes of Nevada and California, and Shoshone Paiute Tribes Duck 

Valley Indian Reservation. Recently, the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe requested an 

RSA to be performed in September 2013 on 5 locations in Elko, Lander, and Nye 

Counties, Nevada. 
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RSA Complements Human Factors Guidelines (HFG):

Since December 2012, the NDOT Safety Engineering has been participating in a 

pilot study/evaluation of the HFG. The goal of this activity is to assess the value 

and efficacy of the HFG with actual end users who are applying the HFG to real 

day-to-day roadway design projects and issues. The HFG pilot study in Nevada 

began with detailed discussions between NDOT and Dr. John Campbell 

(Battelle), lead author of the HFG, to work out the details of the evaluation; i.e., 

how HFG would be used, who would be using it, and the schedule for the pilot 

test. NDOT decided to incorporate the HFG into their Road Safety Audit (RSA) 

program and to use the HFG as pilot RSA on Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas. 

Battelle staff then conducted two training sessions with approximately 45 endusers in December, 2012 and February, 2013. The 2-hour training sessions 

covered the purpose, contents and applications of the HFG, and included a 

training module developed specifically for Nevada that reviewed how the HFG 

could be used during an RSA.

The “Tropicana” RSA (the first RSA conducted in Nevada using the HFG) 

examined a 7-mile corridor in Las Vegas, and was intended to look at safety 

issues from a different perspective and develop recommendations for potential 

safety enhancements.

Work Zone RSA (WZRSA) Training;

NDOT Safety engineering was a collaborating member on the technical working 

group (TWG) for the development of the FHWA WZRSA Guidelines and Prompt 

Lists, and subsequent training extent and materials. Nevada was one of the states 

that received Pilot WZRSA training; the training was conducted by Science 

Application International Corporation (SAIC) in coordination with FHWA on 

May 20 & 21, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was attended by 30 participants 

from NDOT, RTC northern and southern Nevada, consultants, FHWA, and Las 

Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. 
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Symposium on Traffic Safety

On July 19, 2012 the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) held 

a Symposium of Traffic Safety. This Symposium was held to bring together 

businesses, government and non-profit leaders to discuss and make every effort to 

improve safety for everyone in Southern Nevada. This group has continued to 

hold meetings and continues to move forward in making every effort to improve 

the safety for everyone in Southern Nevada.

Systemic Safety Projects

Safety Engineering is continuing the systemic approach for safety improvements 

such as centerline rumble strips, cable barrier rail, shoulder widening and slope 

flattening and installation of Flashing Yellow Arrows (FYA). This systemic 

implementation continues to tie the SHSP to the HSIP and allows Nevada to 

annually obligate its apportioned federal safety funds.
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Progress in Implementing the HSIP projects

Funding

In FFY 2013 Nevada had approximately $30,132,100 in HSIP funds available. 

These funds were forwarded from 2012 plus the funds that were allocated for 

2013 and penalty transfer funds from Title 23 CFR § 154-Open Container Law. 

Nevada obligated approximately $20,559,246 of the HSIP funds. The funding 

breakouts for FFY 2013 are located in Table 2. 

To clarify the Section 154 penalty funds, $7,311,936 of the Federal Fiscal Year 

2013 apportionments for the National Highway Performance Program and 

Surface Transportation Program was transferred to the Highway Safety 

Improvement Program (HSIP) and to the National Highway Traffic 

Administration’s (NHTSA’S) 402 Safety Program. The $7,311,936 was split 

90% to the HSIP ($6,580,742.40) and 10% to the NHTSA ($731,194).

Nevada spent about 89% of the HSIP funding on the State Roadway System and 

11% on Locally-Owned Roads. Approximately $1,569,000 of State Funds and 

$185,700 of Local Funds were used to complete the safety projects identified for 

2013.

Table 1 provides a general listing of the types of projects obligated using HSIP 

funds for the 2013 reporting period. Table 1 also provides information such as 

the location of the project, whether the road was State or Locally owned, the type 

of mitigation, the improvement category as identified by Title 23 CFR § 924, and 

the relationship to the State’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan.
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Safety Improvement Projects

This report provides the available data on the NDOT’s Safety Program. It is 

limited to those projects that used federal safety funds and does not identify

NDOT improvement projects that used only State funds and not identified 

through the State’s SHSP. It also omits such ongoing programs such as 

resurfacing and bridge replacement unless safety funds are expended in the 

project.

Current Safety Improvement Projects

Eight improvement projects included 74 miles of shoulder widening and slope 

flattening on rural highways as part of our continuing systemic improvements, 

construction of .2 mile median island for access management in Carson City, 

major improvements at two intersections in Clark County, two projects to convert 

58 intersections in Clark County to Flashing Yellow Arrow phasing for left turns 

with upgraded pedestrian heads, and safety improvements to 103 intersections 

throughout District II that features solar powered warning lights on stop signs, 

advanced warning signs, and transverse rumble strips were obligated in FY 2013. 

These projects are listed in Table 2.
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Assessment of the Improvements (Program Evaluation)

Statewide Crash Trends

Nevada currently averages about 52,750 crashes per year. The crash statistics for 

calendar year 2012 showed a slight increase in fatalities from those that occurred 

in calendar year 2011. The charts listed on Figures 1 through Figure 4 show the 

trends of statewide fatalities, statewide fatality rate, statewide injuries, and 

statewide injury rate all from 2003-2012. Figures 1 thru Figure 4 also show the 

statewide five-year average fatality and injury rates. These figures indicate that 

Nevada, over the last few years, is seeing crashes involving fatalities and injuries 

have been up and down over the past several years; however the crash trends for 

these types of crashes continue to decrease.

Program Effectiveness

As mentioned in “Innovative Practices” the NDOT has implemented the systemic 

approach to safety projects identifying specific crash types that tie directly to the 

critical emphasis areas that are identified in the states SHSP. 

This year, in support of the Intersection Critical Emphasis Area as identified in 

the states SHSP, the NDOT in coordination with several MPO’s, counties and 

cities, completed the design and is continuing the installation of flashing yellow 

arrows to reduce the number of angle crashes involving left turns. This systemic 

installation has upgraded approximately eighty intersections in northern Nevada, 

over three hundred intersections in southern Nevada and has contracted out 

approximately another one hundred locations in southern Nevada This effort will 

be continued in southern Nevada to contract out several hundred more 

intersections in the following several years. Also, NDOT will be coordinating 

with several MPO’s, counties and cities to install several more FYA locations 

using the LPA program.
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There are fifteen projects/locations that are in need of a before and after study. 

NDOT will be working with our UNR to complete these study’s once UNR has 

completed them they will be included in the 2014 Highway Safety Improvement 

Program Annual report or an addendum will be generated for the 2013 Highway 

Safety Improvement Program Annual report.

The NDOT continues to work with our partners such as the State’s Office of 

Traffic Safety, the Federal Highway Administration, Local Law enforcement 

agencies, and Emergency Responders to target the critical emphasis areas

identified in the State’s SHSP. Based on the downward trend in fatal and injury 

crash numbers it appears that our collective efforts continue to show positive 

results.

Protection of Data

Section 148(h)(4) stipulates that data compiled or collected for the preparation of 

the HSIP Report “...shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in 

a Federal or State court proceeding or considered for other purposes in any action 

for damages arising from any occurrence at a location identified or addressed in 

the reports...” This information is also protected by 23 USC 409 (discovery and

admission as evidence of certain reports and surveys).
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Table 1: Current Safety Projects
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Table 2: 2013 Safety Funding
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Figure 1: Fatality Trend
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Figure 2: Fatality Rate Trend
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Figure 3: Injury Trend 
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Figure 4: Injury Rate Trend