A FOCUSED APPROACH

TO SAFETY
Tracy Lovell, PE

Provide a Transportation System

Safe
Efficient
Environmentally Sound
Fiscally Responsible

Highway Safety Improvement

Program (HSIP)

Reduce highway fatalities by making our

roads safer through a datadriven,
systematic approach.
Increase awareness of the need for
roadway safety infrastructure
improvements.
Provide decisionmakers important
information, tools and resources that will
improve the safety performance of
roadways.

Highway Safety Improvement

Program (HSIP) Contd

Performance-based Federal program.

USDOT

Secretary to establish measures.

States to set targets.

Serious injuries per vehicle mile traveled.

Fatalities per vehicle mile traveled.
Number of serious injuries.
Number of fatalities
Special Performance Rules for HRRR & Older
Drivers.

Corrective actions for insufficient progress.

Requirements for KY to Use

Funds

Develop and implement a Strategic Highway Safety

Plan (SHSP) that identifies and analyzes highway
safety problems and opportunities.
Produce a program of projects or strategies to reduce
identified safety problems.

Identify projects to maximize opportunities to advance

safety.
Focus resources on areas of greatest safety need.
Establish and implement a schedule of highway safety
improvement projects.

Evaluate the plan regularly.

Submit an annual report to the USDOT Secretary.

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)

Statewide-coordinated safety plan that provides

a comprehensive framework for reducing
highway fatalities and serious injuries on all
public roads.
Data-driven, comprehensive plan that
establishes statewide goals, objectives, and key
emphasis areas.
Identify the State's key safety needs and guide
investment decisions to achieve significant
reductions in highway fatalities and serious
injuries on all public roads.

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Contd

2011 Kentucky SHSP

Aggressive Driving

Commercial Vehicle Safety

Distracted Driving

Drive Smart Safety Corridors

Impaired Driving

Incident Management

Motorcycles

Occupant Protection

Roadway Departure

Traffic Records

Young Drivers

Legislative Issues

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Contd

2011 Kentucky SHSP

Proposed Kentucky SHSP

Aggressive Driving

Commercial Vehicle Safety

Distracted Driving

Drive Smart Safety Corridors

Impaired Driving

Incident Management

Motorcycles

Occupant Protection

Roadway Departure

Occupant Protection

Traffic Records

Roadway Departure*

Young Drivers

Legislative Issues

Aggressive Driving

Commercial Vehicle Safety

Distracted Driving

Impaired Driving

Incident Management
Intersections* (NEW)

*Primary

Motorcycles

Young Drivers

Highway Safety
Improvement
Program

RailwayHighway
Grade
Crossings

Transportatio
n
Alternatives

State
Planning and
Research

State
Highway
Safety
Improvement
Program

State Highway Safety

Improvement Program

Intersections
(16.5%
Funding)

Roadway Departure
(67 % Funding)

Other SHSP
Initiatives
(16.5 %
Funding)

Roadway Departure

RD Corridors
Horizontal Alignment Signing
Cable Barrier
High Friction Surface
NHS G/R End Treat.
FE06 Match (New G/R)
Markings (ELRS, CLRS, Edgeline strip, etc.)

Intersections

Intersection Emphasis List

Crash-driven data elements

Systematic Intersection Improvements

Feature-driven data elements

Other SHSP Initiatives

Safety Circuit Rider

Local Government assistance

Data development and processing

Project/program evaluation
Safety workforce development

HSIP PROJECT
PROCESS
Tracy Lovell, PE

HSIP Process

Identify the location RD Corridor, Emphasis Area, etc.

Conduct Road Safety Audit with multi-disciplinary team.
OR, prepare estimate for identified countermeasure
Submit Right of Way, Utility and Environmental Clearance
Documents with Funding Request
Process Environmental Documents
Request Funding
Process Right of Way Clearance
District HSIP
Create Proposal
Advertise for Bids
Coordinator is
Award Contract
the Contact
Construct

Point for All

Phases

Chosen Countermeasure(s)

An identified/requested countermeasure
does NOT eliminate the need to follow
existing approval procedures.
You must follow other Cabinet policies
when applicable.

Division of Traffic Operations

Approval

Traffic signals

Beacons

New installs
Modifications
Intersection
AWB/Sign beacons

Audible/accessible, exclusive ped phases

School flasher assemblies/speed limits
Reversible lane signals
AWFs

Division of Traffic Operations

Approval Contd

Interchange guide signing

Word markings on pavements (nonstd)

Speed limit changes

RPMs

Rumble strips

Permanent
transverse
Edgeline
Centerline (nonstd)

LED-Enhanced
signing
Lighting

Interchange
Intersection
Roundabout
In-roadway