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        This page shows Department of Transportation content pertaining to a specific tag. If you cannot find what you’re looking for on this page, please use the search box in the top right of our website.Human Factors Laboratory Publications
    Implement Complete Streets Improvements
    
  
      
  
      Complete Streets implementation aligns with the Safe System Approach (SSA), which anticipates human mistakes by designing and managing road infrastructure to keep the risk of a mistake low and to reduce injury severity if a crash does occur. FHWA promotes and advances infrastructure solutions to prevent common crash types (1) involving pedestrians and bicyclists, (2) at intersections, and (3) with vehicles departing the roadway. In all cases, reducing speed can help reduce crash severity.
    Plan and Analyze Complete Streets
    
  
      
  
      Transportation professionals in States, MPOs, and localities conduct analyses and produce plans to make short-term improvements and set long-term goals for the surface transportation network. These plans are inter-disciplinary and may explore the transportation, safety, land use, environmental, economic, housing, employment, health, and other factors of a roadway’s structure and the function it serves for a community. Under a Complete Streets design model, safety for all users will be incorporated into all these transportation planning and analysis processes.
    Make Complete Streets the Default Approach
    
  
      
  
      A key way to encourage consistent prioritization of the safety of all users is to make funding and designing Complete Streets the easiest option when designing streets;1 If safety for all users can be incorporated into definitions, guidance, grant awards, and review processes, it would be easier for agencies to take action. A full transition to a Complete Streets design model requires leadership; identification and elimination of barriers; and development of new policies, rules, and procedures to prioritize safety.
    Wrong Way Driving: Road Safety Audit Prompt List
    Complete Streets Transformations: Six Scenarios to Transform Arterials using a Complete Streets Implementation Strategy
    
  
      
  
      This document provides six hypothetical scenarios of how common arterial corridor configurations can be transformed to accommodate the needs of different users by implementing Complete Streets. The examples focus on (1) urban and suburban arterials with posted speed limits less than 55 mph, and...
    Federal Highway Administration Announces More Funding and Flexibility for Key Highway Safety Program under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
    
  
      
  
      FHWA 04-22
Contact: FHWA.PressOffice@dot.gov
Tel.: (202) 366-0660WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today released new guidance to implement changes in its signature highway...
    U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $40 Million in Grants to Improve Safety at Highway-Railway Crossings in Five States
    
  
      
  
      FHWA 01-21
Contact: Neil Gaffney
Tel: (202) 366-0660WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today provided $40 million in grants to States seeking to improve safety where highways and rail lines cross. The grants, awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)...
    U.S. Department of Transportation Seeks Applicants for Railway-Highway Crossings Grants
    
  
      
  
      FHWA 17-20
Contact: Neil Gaffney
Tel.: (202) 366-0660WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today published a Notice of Funding Opportunity that provides up to $50 million in grants for commuter rail agencies working to improve safety at railway-highway crossings....
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