An official website of the POLICY 10: Eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries
This policy states:
Work to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries from traffic crashes and incidents on the transportation system by 2050 using the Safe System approach.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 10A. Prioritize projects that improve safety for all modes of travel and have the potential to reduce deaths and serious injuries from crashes. When evaluating projects, consider regional and local safety action plans, high-injury streets, and systemic risk factors. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 10B. Form a regional traffic safety technical working group. Facilitate regional coordination and reporting on the impacts and results of local safety projects. Action type: Technical Capacity Building |
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| 10C. Continue to maintain, track, and analyze crash data by transportation mode and severity to identify priorities for investments. Coordinate this data with local, regional, and state planning efforts. Include a safety analysis of crash trends, data, and needs by mode and crash severity in comprehensive plans, including at least the five most recent years of data. Identify high priority transportation corridors and locations to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority |
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| 10D. Update state aid standards to allow for more flexible designs that could enhance safety along roadways and manage speed in urban and suburban contexts. Allow state aid roads to use alternative design guidelines. Action type: Partner |
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| 10E. Continually study and evaluate advancements in safety technology. Identify opportunities to implement safety technology on the regional transportation system. Provide technical guidance on best practices as they arise. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 10F. Build agency skills and understanding of transportation safety and the Safe System Approach. Continue research, presentations, training, and technical assistance to expand the Safe System Approach in planning and project development. Action type: Technical Capacity Building |
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| 10G. Ensure the region is distributing competitive regional Highway Safety Improvement Program funds for pedestrian and bicyclist safety-focused transportation projects at least in proportion to the percent of all pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 10H. Work with transportation partners to study the benefits and impacts of speed safety enforcement including equitable enforcement strategies. Implement all recommendations and required legislative changes. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 10I. Encourage the state to participate in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Section 1906 Grant Program to prohibit racial profiling in traffic stops, acknowledge harms caused by racial profiling in traffic enforcement, and help reduce negative impacts of racial profiling and policing throughout communities. Action type: Partner |
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ROW Indicates all agencies with right-of-way jurisdiction. UMN is the University of Minnesota. DPS is the Department of Public Safety.
