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Reducing Fatalities and Serious Injuries on County Roads
Brian C. Roberts, P.E.
Executive Director
National Association of County Engineers
Washington, DC
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Housekeeping
• Please silence all mobile devices.
• This session is being recorded. To view the recording please visit www.naco.org/educational-recordings.
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Workshop Evaluations
Workshop evaluations forms can be found in the NACo conference app and online at
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Agenda
• TZD National Strategy
• County Implementation
• Funding Safety Projects
• National Strategy Focus Areas
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Towards Zero Deaths (TZD): A National Strategy for Eliminating Highway Fatalities
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What is TZD?
“A commitment to a comprehensive,
multidisciplinary, aggressive, and
proactive approach to improving
highway safety”
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% Fatalities on Rural Roads (FARS 2011)
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States with Zero Fatality Language (as of March 2012)
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Stakeholders
TZD Steering Committee
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
"We embrace the vision of Toward Zero Deaths; it provides an overarching and common vision that drives and focuses our efforts to achieve our shared goal to eliminate injuries and fatalities on our roadways.“
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Implementation Plan for Counties
• Formal Adoption
• Establishment of Inter-Departmental and/or Inter-Agency work group
• Review and consideration of all identified strategies (high impact, time frame, etc)
• Commitment to data collection and analysis
• Participation with State SHSPs
• Development of Local Safety Improvement Plans
• Continuing Education
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Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Process
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MAP-21
• Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
• $2.4B per year!
• All public roads eligible
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Eligible use of funding
“A highway safety improvement project is any strategy, activity or project on a public road that is consistent with the data-driven State Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) and corrects or improves a hazardous road location or feature or addresses a highway safety problem.”
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Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP)
• Developed by each state DOT in cooperation with other officials & stakeholders
• Data-driven multi-year, comprehensive plan
• Establishes statewide goals, objectives, & key emphasis areas
• States across the country are currently updating their SHSP…
• And your county officials should be at the table!
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Strategies
• Safer drivers and passengers
• Safer vulnerable users
• Safer infrastructure
• Safer Vehicles
• Enhanced emergency medical services (EMS)
• Improved safety management and data processes
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Increase restraint use by drivers and passengers.
• Reduce speeding-related fatalities.
• Reduce impaired driving fatalities.
• Reduce driver distraction-related fatalities.
• Increase safety of young drivers. Increase safety of older drivers
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Safer Vulnerable Users
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Vulnerable Users
• Pedestrians and Bicyclists
– Increased fatalities in 2011 and 2012
• Motorcyclists
– 4.9M in 2001 to 8.4M in 2011 Registered
• Highway Workers
– 609 Fatalities in 2012
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Safer Infrastructure
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Infrastructure
• Endless resources and countermeasures
• We need the $$$$!
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Safer Vehicles
Enable Communication with Other Vehicles and the Roadway Enable Communication with Other Vehicles and the Roadway
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Automated Vehicles (AV)
• Enable Communication with Other Vehicles and the Roadway (V2V)
• Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technologies
• V2X
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
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Of the drivers who died while being transported to the hospital, 75 % were rural drivers compared to 25% for urban drivers
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Improved Safety Management
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Why Data?
• It’s all about the data!
• This can be a challenge for Locals
• Data Driven Safety
• Ultimately required for funding
• No Data – No Funding
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Safety Culture
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Implementation Plan for Counties/Locals
• Formal Adoption
• Establishment of Inter-Departmental and/or Inter-
Agency work group
• Review and consideration of all identified
strategies (high impact, time frame, etc)
• Commitment to data collection and analysis
• Participation with State SHSPs
• Development of Local Safety Improvement Plans
• Continuing Education
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Questions?
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Evaluations
NACo values all feedback.
Evaluation forms can be found in the NACoConference app and online at
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