Montgomery MPO’s Safety Action Plan
Project Introduction
The Montgomery MPO is developing a Safety Action Plan to identify safety challenges and improvements throughout our region’s transportation system. The plan’s purpose is to improve roadway safety by planning and implementing projects designed to significantly reduce or eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries among all users, including motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transit users. The plan will follow the requirements identified in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program.
Project Components
The comprehensive safety action plan will include the following key components:
- Leadership commitment and goal setting that includes a goal timeline for eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
- Planning structure through a committee, task force, implementation group, or similar body charged with oversight of the Action Plan development, implementation, and monitoring.
- Safety analysis of the existing conditions and historical trends that provides a baseline level of crashes involving fatalities and serious injuries across a jurisdiction, locality, Tribe, or region.
- Engagement and collaboration with the public and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and community groups, that allows for both community representation and feedback.
- Equity considerations developed through a plan using inclusive and representative processes.
- Policy and process changes that assess the current policies, plans, guidelines, and/or standards to identify opportunities to improve how processes prioritize transportation safety.
- Strategy and project selections that identify a comprehensive set of projects and strategies, shaped by data, the best available evidence and noteworthy practices, as well as stakeholder input and equity considerations, that will address the safety problems described in the Action Plan.
- Progress and transparency methods that measure progress over time after an Action Plan is developed or updated, including outcome data.
Public Feedback Needed!
We need your input to identify safety concerns throughout the Montgomery metropolitan planning area transportation network! Your feedback will help the study team understand and address your priorities throughout the plan development process.
Please take our short survey designed to identify and prioritize safety concerns. The survey can be accessed by clicking on the link below. It should only take a few minutes to complete. It will be open from December 9th – January 10th. https://metroquestsurvey.com/zq0u0c
Vision Zero
Roadway fatalities are increasing every year in the United States. The goal of Vision Zero is to eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries. The Montgomery MPO’s Safety Action Plan will look at the region through the lens of the Safe System Approach. The Safe System Approach works by building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from occurring and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur. This approach is a shift from a conventional safety approach because it focuses on both human mistakes and human vulnerability and designs a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone.
Source: FHWA
Source: FHWA
Source: FHWA
Source: FHWA
