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Idaho's Strategic Highway
Safety Plan
The Governor’s Highway Safety Summit: “Toward Zero Deaths” was held in October
2005. Stakeholders throughout Idaho were invited to participate and develop and
answer the challenge of reducing highway-related fatalities and life-altering
injuries. These stakeholders include those involved in planning, designing,
constructing, operating, and maintaining the roadway infrastructure
(Engineering), modifying road user behavior and preventing injury (Education and
Enforcement), and also providing post-crash assistance (Emergency Medical
Services). Challenges and strategies were solicited from all participants. From
their input, ten data-driven emphasis areas were identified to focus immediate
efforts toward attaining zero traffic deaths in Idaho. The attached plan is the
document that arose from that planning meeting.
The mission was to develop, implement, and manage an integrated
multi-stakeholder process to improve the attributes of roads, users, and
vehicles to reduce traffic-related deaths, life-altering injuries and the
related economic losses on Idaho’s roadways.
The vision was no roadway system deaths during an entire year.
The goals was to reduce the number of traffic-related deaths from 275 in 2005 to
168 or fewer deaths by 2012, resulting in an estimated fatality rate of 1.0 per
100 million vehicle miles traveled.
This Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is a tool to assist Idaho in achieving
its goal of reducing roadway deaths and serious injuries. In the past, the Idaho
utilized three separate highway safety plans; the Highway Safety Performance
Plan to address road user behavioral safety issues, the Highway Safety
Improvement Program to increase roadway infrastructure safety, and a Motor
Carrier Safety Assistance Program to improve commercial driver and vehicle
safety. One of the purposes of the SHSP is to bring these plans together to
achieve the common goal of reducing fatalities and life-altering injuries on
Idaho roadways using performance-driven strategies.
2007 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (PDF)
 Please send comments, questions,
and suggestions to
ohsweb@itd.idaho.gov
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