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FHWA Highway Safety Programs

SHSP Emphasis Areas

Based on a review of State SHSPs, FHWA identified the eight SHSP emphasis areas common across most States. These emphasis areas are used in the HSIP online reporting tool for categorizing HSIP projects.   Figure 20 presents the number of HSIP projects categorized by SHSP emphasis area. For consistency and national reporting purposes, state-defined SHSP emphasis areas were assigned to these emphasis areas, where possible. 

About 40 percent of the projects were categorized as "Roadway Departure" (33 percent in 2014 and 42 percent in 2015), 29 percent were categorized as "Intersections" (27 percent in 2014 and 31 percent in 2015), 13 percent categorized as "Unknown/Other" (26 percent in 2014 and 14 percent in 2015). Examples of other categories used by the States include: "Highway infrastructure", "Railroad", and "Lighting".

Figure 20 illustrates the number of projects by SHSP emphasis area. 1805 projects were roadway departure, 1280 projects were intersections, 376 projects were lane departure, 189 projects were pedestrians, 99 projects were data, 21 projects were older drivers, 16 projects were bicyclists, 15 projects were work zones, and 667 projects were other/unknown.

Figure 20: Number of Projects by SHSP Emphasis Area