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 Message from the Associate Administrator for Safety, Cheryl Walker

Protecting the Most Vulnerable 

As roadway safety practitioners, we have a language of our own. Given our focus on engineering 

infrastructure, it’s often technical. But there’s one term that stands out to me: “Vulnerable Road User.” 

Unlike most jargon, the use of “vulnerable” conveys the deep concern that my Office—and everyone 

working in the safety field—has for the people walking, rolling, and biking on our roads. 

At some point, each of us falls into this at-risk category. When you’re returning to your parked car or 

heading out to catch the bus, you become a Vulnerable Road User. 

From a long-term perspective, we’ve gotten better at 

protecting passengers riding inside vehicles. 

However, fatalities and serious injuries for 

pedestrians and cyclists have significantly increased.

As we mark Pedestrian Safety Month in October, I’m 

heartened to see that 43 percent of the groups pledging commitments to the 

U.S. DOT’s National Roadway Safety Strategy have focused on measures 

that protect Vulnerable Road Users. These Allies in Action come from all 

sectors of society; please encourage the stakeholders in your network to 

commit to meaningful actions too. 

Good ideas have a way of spreading. You can multiply the impact of your 

roadway safety projects by submitting them to the U.S. DOT’s Allies in Action 

website, which showcases bold and transformative safety efforts from across 

the country. 

My team is also committed to sharing your successes so they can be adopted 

by others. In this newsletter you can read about communities at home and 

abroad—from Colorado to New Zealand—that are thinking systematically 

about safety. They’re building redundancy into transportation networks that 

safeguard all roadway users, including the most vulnerable.

Wherever you are on your journey to protect people who walk, bike, and roll, the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of 

Safety is here to serve you. Together, we will save lives. 

Let’s all be safe out there,

Cheryl Walker

Associate Administrator 

for Safety

Reduce fatalities and serious injuries to 

bikers, rollers, and walkers by 

implementing some of FHWA’s Proven 

Safety Countermeasures.

(Source: FHWA)
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in this issue...

 Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety ....................................................................................................................................... 2

FHWA Undertakes Global Benchmarking Study Focused on Improving Pedestrian Safety on Arterials..............................................2

NEW: Final Rule on Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities ....................................................................... 3

 Moving Toward Zero......................................................................................................................................................... 4

New Products Alert! The Safe System Approach for Speed Management Report and a New NHI Speed Management 

Training Course.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

New Resources Educate, Aid Practitioners in Applying the Safe System Approach ..................................................................................... 5

Tony Ciko: Cable Barriers “Likely Saved My Life”........................................................................................................................................................ 6

Using Innovative Contracting Approaches to Get Safety Projects Done Faster, at Lower Cost............................................................... 6

 Assessment and Analysis.................................................................................................................................................. 7

Safety Performance Target Setting: Understanding the State of the Practice................................................................................................. 7

 Announcements.................................................................................................................................................................. 9

State Safety Performance Target Assessment Results Now Available for CY 2021....................................................................................... 9

Upcoming Conferences and Events .................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY

FHWA Undertakes Global 

Benchmarking Study 

Focused on Improving 

Pedestrian Safety on 

Arterials

By: Tamara Redmon, FHWA Office of Safety

Representatives from FHWA, State 

and local transportation agencies, 

and a university participated in a 

study tour under the FHWA Global 

Benchmarking Program (GBP). The 

GBP serves as a tool for accessing, 

evaluating, and implementing proven 

international practices to improve 

highway transportation in the United 

States.

The purpose of this study was to 

examine noteworthy approaches and 

innovations used by other countries 

to achieve reductions in serious 

pedestrian injuries and fatalities on 

arterial roadways. The study team

researched strategies from 11 peer 

countries in Europe, South America, 

and Australasia (Australia, New 

Zealand, and surrounding islands) 

that outperform the United States in 

pedestrian-safety outcomes.

This research included a literature 

review and interviews with more than

40 subject matter experts to identify 

the best candidate locations to 

inform U.S. approaches to improving 

pedestrian safety on urban 

signalized arterials. Based on the 

findings, the study team developed 

an interim desk review entitled 

Global Benchmarking Program: 

Reducing Pedestrian Fatalities and 

Serious Injuries on Urban Signalized 

Arterials. FHWA then held a followon webinar to discuss the desk 

review. The recorded webinar is now 

available online (passcode: 

6&CJhs=2).

Based on the results of the 

interviews and literature review, the 

study team selected New Zealand 

and Australia for a week-long study 

tour to learn more about these 

countries’ approaches to improving 

pedestrian safety on their 

(Source: FHWA)
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transportation networks, particularly 

on arterial roadways. A full account 

of the study and findings are 

documented in a recently completed 

report entitled Improving Pedestrian 

Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning 

from Australasia.

The team developed the following 

goals for implementing key findings 

and recommended actions for the 

FHWA that will be undertaken over 

the next couple of years:

• Identify, document, and pursue 

opportunities to integrate the 

context classification / 

movement and place framework 

(i.e., considering the function of 

each road type within the road 

network and how it performs to 

meet the needs of a community)

into existing programs and 

initiatives. 

• Coordinate with the FHWA 

Speed Management Team to 

recommend updating speedsetting guidelines to facilitate 

lower speeds.

• Advance the integration of 

modern, multimodal Road 

Safety Audit (RSA) processes 

into new projects.

• Support the resourcing of 

demonstration projects to 

highlight tech transfer 

possibilities.

• Advance research that integrates

study findings, including: 

o Identifying and documenting 

Federal resources to fund 

demonstration projects.

o Supporting State DOTs, 

planning organizations, and 

cities in adapting learning from 

the report to their programs 

and processes via pilot 

demonstration projects.

o Reviewing findings from 

previous readiness 

assessments to determine 

future research.

o Researching data collection 

and data management 

strategies for robust analysis.

o Identifying research that could 

be conducted by academia.

A four-part webinar series will share 

the results of the study, focusing on: 

key findings and recommendations 

(Part 1), the Movement and Place 

Framework (Part 2), integration of 

Road Safety Audits (Part 3), 

network-level approaches for speed 

management (Part 4). Panelists from 

FHWA, PBIC, the U.S. DOT Volpe 

National Transportation Systems 

Center, and agency representatives 

from the United States, New 

Zealand, and Australia will describe 

how these approaches in policy, 

planning, and design may be applied 

to U.S. arterials roadways.

For more information 

contact tamara.redmon@dot.gov.

NEW: Final Rule on Public 

Right-of-Way Accessibility 

Guidelines for Pedestrian 

Facilities

Across the Nation, many 

communities still have sidewalks,

crosswalks, and other pedestrian 

facilities that are inaccessible to 

pedestrians with disabilities. 

Because pedestrian travel is the 

principal means of independent 

transportation for many people with 

disabilities, equal access to 

pedestrian facilities is particularly 

important. 

On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Access 

Board advanced the effort to 

address this inequity by publishing 

the Final Public Right-of-Way 

Accessibility Guidelines (Final 

PROWAG) in the Federal Register. 

Key pedestrian facilities addressed 

in the guidelines include:

NEW: Notice of Establishment of the Motorcyclist Advisory Council (MAC)

From the Federal Register: Notice of establishment of the Motorcyclist Advisory Council (MAC) and solicitation for 

appointment to the MAC (88 FR 65769). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the 

establishment of the MAC for a 2-year period. The MAC will coordinate with and advise the Secretary of Transportation, 

the NHTSA Administrator, and the Federal Highway Administration Administrator on transportation issues of concern to 

motorcyclists, including: motorcycle and motorcyclist safety; barrier and road design, construction, and maintenance 

practices; and the architecture and implementation of intelligent transportation system technologies. NHTSA is also 

soliciting nominations for appointment to the MAC. Applications for membership must be received by NHTSA on or before 

5 p.m. EST, December 15, 2023. Read the full Notice here. 
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• Sidewalks, crosswalks, shared 

use paths, and other pedestrian 

circulation paths 

• Alternate pedestrian access

routes where a pedestrian 

circulation path is temporarily 

not accessible 

• Accessible pedestrian signals

• Transit stops 

• On-street parking

In keeping with the process set forth 

by the Americans with Disabilities 

Act, the Final PROWAG will become 

enforceable after the Department of 

Justice (DOJ) and Department of 

Transportation (DOT) adopt 

accessibility standards that are 

“consistent with” the PROWAG 

through separate rulemaking.

In the meantime, public entities have 

some flexibility in complying with the 

general obligation under Title II of 

the ADA to ensure that their facilities 

are “accessible to and usable by” 

individuals with disabilities. At 

present, public entities may turn to 

different resources for guidance, 

including the Final PROWAG, DOJ’s 

2010 ADA Standards, and other 

accessibility resources.

Visit the U.S. Access Board for more 

information and resources. 

MOVING TOWARD ZERO

New Products Alert! 

The Safe System Approach 

for Speed Management 

Report and a New NHI 

Speed Management 

Training Course

By: Anyesha Mookherjee and Jeff King, 

FHWA Office of Safety

In the last edition of the Safety 

Compass, we brought you news on 

the recently, updated Speed Safety 

Camera Program Planning and 

Operations Guide. The FHWA speed 

management team is happy to be 

back with two additional resources: 

the Safe System Approach for 

Speed Management report and a 

new NHI training course, Designing 

and Operating Roadways for Safe 

Speeds. 

The correlation between speed and 

injury crashes has been well 

documented throughout the scientific 

literature on traffic safety, and 

achieving lower speeds has been 

proven to save lives and reduce 

serious injuries. To achieve a truly 

safe transportation system, road 

safety practitioners should not only 

manage speeds, but make achieving 

safe speeds on all roads a 

cornerstone of their safety policies.

The Safe System Approach for 

Speed Management report will help 

practitioners understand the impacts 

of speed on traffic safety and explore 

the link between speed management 

and the Safe System Approach by 

introducing a five-stage framework.

These five stages are establishing a 

vision and building consensus for 

A screen capture from the self-paced Designing and Operating Roadways for Safe 

Speeds course.

(Source: FHWA)

(Source: FHWA)
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speed management, collecting, and 

analyzing speed and safety data, 

prioritizing locations for speed 

management proactively, selecting 

speed management 

countermeasures, and conducting 

ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and 

adjustment.

The “Designing and Operating 

Roadways for Safe Speeds” online 

course delivers free, self-paced

training that provides learners with 

the knowledge and skills they need 

to design safe roads effectively, set 

safe speeds, and select treatments 

that mitigate crash severity. 

Participants will learn how 

incorporating innovative design 

concepts and new approaches to 

setting speeds—such as selfenforcing roadways, target speed, 

and injury minimization—can reduce 

the likelihood of fatal and serious 

injury crashes for all roadway users. 

To register, or to learn more, visit the 

National Highway Institute (course

number: FHWA-NHI-380128).

The FHWA Resource Center is also 

pleased to announce the availability 

of a one-day, instructor-led training 

course that builds on the web-based 

training. The instructor-led training 

includes engaging exercises and 

focuses on the process for setting 

speeds based on target speed and 

injury minimization objectives to 

serve all roadway users.

For more information on these new 

resources, please contact Anyesha 

Mookherjee or Jeff King.

New Resources Educate, Aid 

Practitioners in Applying the 

Safe System Approach

By Chimai Ngo, FHWA Office of Safety

The Office of Safety is busy 

developing new products and 

resources for practitioners that 

highlight current challenges and 

illustrate how applying the Safe 

System Approach (SSA) can help

overcome them and improve safety 

for all road users across the Nation.

We encourage you to share these 

with your networks by including them 

in your organization’s e-newsletters, 

websites, intranets, and social 

channels. 

New Safe System Video Now 

Available

A new, 5-minute Safe System video

gives a complete overview of the 

philosophy behind the Safe System 

Approach. This video uses a 

scenario that illustrates an 

opportunity to save lives when SSA 

is implemented. The goal of the 

video is to educate and encourage 

practitioners to spread the word 

about the Safe System Approach 

and incorporate the concepts into 

their own communities.

Vision Zero Case Studies 

Highlight Communication, 

Partnership, and Safe System 

Principles

The Office of Safety has issued a 

series of case studies showcasing 

how State and local agencies are 

working together, and with 

communities and stakeholders, to 

advance Safe System principles and 

implement Vision Zero policies to 

improve safety for all users. We 

hope they inspire and connect 

practitioners around innovative ways 

to apply the Safe System Approach 

to achieve both safety and mobility 

goals.

• Promoting Vision Zero: A Case 

Study from Richmond, VA. 

Communication, outreach, and 

partnerships are deployed to 

promote Vision Zero and grow a 

safety culture in organizations 

throughout the City of Richmond, 

VA.

• Rapid Response Program in 

Denver, CO. A Vision Zero 

program brings together different 

city departments to investigate 

fatal crashes and determine 

appropriate treatments—

engineering, education, 

enforcement, or a combination of 

the three—at crash locations and 

sites with similar characteristics.

The Safe System Approach for Speed 

Management Framework.

(Source: FHWA)

FHWA’s new Safe System video. 

(Source: FHWA)
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• Highway 316 Redesign in

Hasting, MI. Presented in the 

ArcGIS Storymap format, this 

story explains how a State DOT 

worked with a city to engage the 

community to improve a road 

segment, leveraging Safe 

System principles to bring safety 

to all road users. 

• SGF Yields – A Pedestrian 

Safety Program in 

Springfield, MO. Also in the 

ArcGIS Storymap format, this 

story depicts how a city 

leveraged Safe System principles 

in implementing a citywide 

program that ensures drivers 

yield to pedestrians. 

To learn more about the Safe 

System Approach, please contact 

Chimai Ngo, or visit the Zero Deaths 

and Safe System landing page.

Tony Ciko: Cable Barriers 

“Likely Saved My Life”

By Chimai Ngo, FHWA Office of Safety 

Every time Tony Ciko drives near the 

Williamsburg exit on Interstate-70 

East in Missouri, he recalls the day 

when, in a matter of seconds, 

everything could have changed but 

for cable barriers—the traffic safety 

measure he believes saved his life in 

the summer of 2007.

Ciko was driving to Jefferson City, 

MO, when a driver in the opposing 

lane lost control of their vehicle. 

“I was driving in the left lane and 

suddenly I saw a passenger car 

coming toward me that was weaving 

left to right,” Ciko recalled. “It then 

completely lost control and drove 

into the median. It looked like it was

coming right at me. But then the 

vehicle quickly turned parallel to the 

road in the middle of the median.”

The vehicle had careened into a 

median cable barrier. Cable barriers 

are made of three or four steel 

cables mounted on weak steel posts. 

When a vehicle hits it, the flexible 

barrier absorbs much energy of the 

impact, capturing or redirecting the 

vehicle to prevent it from crossing 

the median. 

Interstate 70, one of the country’s 

oldest interstates, was built with 40-

foot medians instead of the 60-foot 

medians that are standard today. 

After Missouri installed nearly 180 

miles of median cable barriers on I70, cross-median fatalities 

decreased by 92 percent, according 

to AASHTO. 

Those life-saving benefits were likely 

realized by Ciko and other road

users that day when the runaway 

vehicle finally came to a complete 

stop. At that point, Ciko parked his 

car and checked on the passengers. 

“It was a car with four young people,” 

he said. “The driver said they leaned 

forward to adjust the radio and that 

distracted them. It apparently caused 

them to lose control.”

Luckily, no one was injured.

“Although I can’t be a hundred 

percent sure they would have hit me, 

I was a hundred percent sure they 

were completely out of control, 

coming across the median in the 

wrong direction on the interstate,” 

Ciko said. “It is very likely the cable 

barriers saved their lives as well.”

The author would like to thank Tony 

Ciko, who contributed his story. At 

the time of the incident, he was a 

consultant for the Missouri DOT. He 

is currently retired.

Using Innovative 

Contracting Approaches to 

Get Safety Projects Done 

Faster, at Lower Cost 

by Rick Drumm, P.E., Office of Safety

The Highway Safety Improvement 

Program (HSIP) at FHWA regularly 

produces “Noteworthy Practices”

focused on streamlining safety 

project delivery. Recently, the 

program highlighted innovative 

contracting methods that various 

States are using, in cooperation with 

FHWA Division Offices, to implement 

Safety projects faster and at a lower 

cost. Each practice is described in a 

two-page fact sheet. An explanation 

of the approach along with two State 

experiences are discussed for each 

HSIP Noteworthy Practice:

Following quarterly compliance 

studies, SGF Yields added signs to 

treated intersections or mid-block 

crossings to publicly display the rate 

at which drivers had yielded to 

pedestrians. (Source: SGF Yields)
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• Design-Build Contracting. Florida 

and Missouri have bundled 

several low-cost safety projects 

under single contract vehicles to 

address multiple smaller scale 

safety projects quickly and 

efficiently.

• Force Accounts. Alabama and 

Mississippi are using public 

maintenance workforces to 

implement needed, low-cost 

safety improvements at high-risk 

locations to improve safety now.

• Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite 

Quantity (IDIQ). In Montana, job 

order contracting provides a way 

for the State DOT to deliver 

common, low-cost safety projects 

at HSIP project sites, while 

Delaware uses a combination of 

open-ended contracts with no 

treatment locations specified as 

well as contracts that list only 

some treatment sites, leaving 

others to be determined.

• Materials Procurement. Maine is 

using HSIP funds to buy 

materials for localities to install 

on local roads, while the Ohio 

LTAP invites the counties with 

the most challenging crash 

problems to apply for a Township 

Sign Grant to fund the purchase 

of signs for installation on local 

roadways.

The States highlighted in these 

Noteworthy Practices demonstrate 

that effective alternatives to 

traditional contracting paths exist. 

While the use of innovative methods 

is not limited to the featured States, 

these States provide notable 

examples of how contracting 

techniques can be applied effectively 

to increase safety, including on local 

and rural roadways. By using these 

approaches, States have shown that 

safety projects can be installed 

faster and at lower cost, which 

results in more lives saved, more 

serious injuries reduced, and more 

resources available for other safety 

projects. 

If your State is interested in pursuing 

one of these innovative project 

delivery methods for your safety 

projects, please contact your FHWA 

Division Office. 

For more information on the HSIP 

Noteworthy Practices, please 

contact Rick Drumm, 

rick.drumm@dot.gov. 

ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS

Safety Performance Target 

Setting: Understanding the 

State of the Practice 

By: Danielle Betkey, FHWA Office of Safety;

Charles Meyer, FHWA Office of Safety;

Catherine Chestnutt, VHB; Jeff Gooch, VHB; 

Frank Gross, VHB; Mikayla Brooks, VHB 

Performance management is the 

process of establishing and 

assessing safety performance 

measures and targets related to the 

lives lost and serious injuries 

incurred on the Nation’s roadways. 

States use safety performance 

measures to assess progress toward 

safety goals, which can lead to 

better accountability and program 

agility. 

States are required to establish 

targets annually for each safety 

performance measure (23 CFR 

490.209(a)) and report those safety 

performance targets in the Highway 

Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) 

annual report (23 CFR 490.213(a)). 

States must develop five safety 

performance targets: 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,

(Source: FHWA)

(Source: FHWA)
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and number of non-motorized 

fatalities and serious injuries. 

In an effort to learn more about how 

States set targets, how targets 

influence project planning and 

programming decisions, and how 

others can learn from States’ 

successes and challenges, the 

FHWA conducted a scan that 

resulted in the new Safety 

Performance Target Setting: State of 

the Practice Report. The report 

details the methodology for how 

State agencies set and apply safety 

performance targets; shares States’ 

future plans for target-setting 

practices; presents how target 

setting informs investment decisions;

and identifies example State

practices.

Safety Performance Target Setting 

State of the Practice

The Safety 

Performance 

Target Setting: 

State of the 

Practice Report uses anonymous 

survey data from all 50 States, the 

District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico 

and follow-up interviews with 15 

States to better understand safety 

performance target-setting practices 

and how these targets inform project 

planning and programming 

decisions. 

States reported using a variety of 

methodologies for setting safety 

performance targets, from selecting 

goal-driven targets to align with the 

aspirational goals established in the 

Strategic Highway Safety Plan 

(SHSP), to using sophisticated data 

models to forecast future safety 

performance targets. 

States shared several thoughts on 

the safety performance target-setting 

process. The States noted increased 

communication and interest among 

stakeholders. They also pointed out 

that the safety performance targetsetting process was effective in 

helping to communicate the need to 

include safety in all projects (not just 

those funded through the HSIP) and 

during early development of 

programming and scoping phases. 

Moreover, the States pointed out the 

performance management process 

reinforces the need for a systemic 

approach to safety, which lowers risk 

across multiple sites rather than 

individual, larger scale, site-specific 

projects. The States also 

commented on other issues such as 

how and whether the performance 

management target-setting process 

impacts project selection and the 

availability of recent data. 

Example State Practices 

Nearly half of States (45 percent)

found the target-setting process to 

be an effective mechanism for 

supporting informed decisions on 

safety investments. 

States noted that performance target 

setting had an array of positive 

impacts, ranging from greater

stakeholder interest in safety trends

and promoting safety culture to 

incorporating local agencies in the 

safety performance target-setting 

process and helping them analyze 

their data, provide feedback on the 

safety performance targets, and 

apply for HSIP funds. 

One State sets safety performance 

targets based on planned 

improvements and policy changes. 

Highlighting political actions such as 

policy changes shows how a strong 

safety culture can influence safety 

performance target setting.

States also mentioned support from 

representatives from the 4Es 

(engineering, enforcement, 

education, and emergency medical 

services), which included educating 

leadership about a multi-disciplinary 

approach. This approach helps

agencies to address safety issues 

from multiple angles as some State 

leaders focused more on 

infrastructure-related strategies than 

non-infrastructure and behaviorrelated strategies. 

Several States also noted a strong 

connection between safety 

performance target setting, the 

HSIP, and the SHSP processes. The 

collaborative nature of many States’ 

safety performance target-setting 

approach is similar to the planning 

process that informs the SHSP.

State DOTs, State Highway Safety 

Offices, MPOs, and other local 

agencies can use the information 

highlighted throughout the report to 

enhance inter-agency 

communication, support short-term 

actions and progress toward zero 

fatalities and serious injuries, and 

use HSIP Implementation Plans to 

better understand their HSIP 
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program, projects, and where 

investments can be made to make 

the greatest impact.

To learn more, read the Safety 

Performance Target Setting: State of 

the Practice Report.

For more information, contact 

Danielle Betkey.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

State Safety Performance 

Target Assessment Results 

Now Available for CY 2021

By Danielle Betkey, FHWA Office of Safety

The results of the calendar year 

2021 State Safety Performance 

Target Assessments are now 

available on the TPM State 

Performance Dashboard and 

Reports website. Ten States 

(19 percent) met or made significant 

progress and 42 States (81 percent) 

did not. In an effort to elevate the 

safety performance target results, 

FHWA has also included a link on 

the FHWA safety performance 

targets and target assessment 

summary for each State that enables 

users to download a file of all the 

State data for CY 2021.

For more information, please contact 

Danielle Betkey at 

Danielle.Betkey@dot.gov.

Upcoming Conferences and 

Events

38th Annual North Central Regional 

Local Roads Conference. Sioux 

Falls, SD. October 23-25, 2023.

Sponsored by the South Dakota 

Local Transportation Assistance

Program (SDLTAP), this conference 

provides an opportunity to learn and 

share ideas about building and 

maintaining safe, local roadways.

The target audience is highway 

superintendents/county engineers, 

municipal street managers, 

equipment operators, consulting 

engineers, and elected officials.

Safe Routes to School Virtual 

Summit 2023. October 24–26, 2023.

Sponsored by the Safe Routes 

Partnership, this three-day summit 

will be filled with presentations and 

networking opportunities for Safe 

Routes practitioners, partners, and 

champions.

AASHTO Annual Meeting & Expo. 

Indianapolis, IN. 

November 13–16, 2023. This 

annual meeting brings together 

experts from the public and private 

sector to share the latest in industry 

policy and innovation. Attendees will 

have the opportunity to network with

fellow transportation professionals 

and contribute to discussions on a 

wide range of issues facing the 

industry today and tomorrow.

Crash Responder Safety Week.

November 13-17, 2023. This 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA) sponsored initiative 

communicates the simple steps 

everyone can take in keeping our 

roadway responders and the public 

safe around traffic incidents. CRSW 

is an opportunity to promote road 

user awareness and adherence to 

Move Over laws and Traffic Incident 

Management (TIM) training for all

traffic incident responders.

103rd Transportation Research 

Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. 

Washington, DC. January 7–11, 

2024. TRB’s Annual Meeting attracts

thousands of transportation 

professionals from around the world. 

The program covers all 

transportation modes, with sessions 

and workshops addressing topics of 

interest to policy makers, 

practitioners, researchers, and

representatives from government, 

industry, and academic institutions. 
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The Safety Compass Newsletter is a publication of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA).

FHWA publishes the Safety Compass Newsletter three times a year. We can be reached at:

FHWA Office of Safety

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE

Room E71-320

Washington, DC 20590

The Safety Compass Newsletter is available online at the FHWA Office of Safety website at: 

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/newsletter/safetycompass/. 

We welcome your comments and highway safety-related articles. The purpose of this newsletter is to increase highway safety 

awareness and information and to provide resources to help save lives.

We encourage readers to submit highway safety articles that might be of value to the highway safety community. Send your 

comments, questions, and articles for review electronically to Tina Tennessen at: christina.tennessen@dot.gov.