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HSIP Background
- Core Federal-aid program
- Purpose: achieve a significant reduction in fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads
- $2.4 billion annual apportionment
- $220 million RHCP set-aside
- Last rulemaking update took effect
January 23, 2009
Why is FHWA proposing this change?
- Provide consistency with MAP-21
- Implement actions required by the Secretary in MAP-21
- Clarify existing program requirements
Overview of Existing 23 CFR Part 924
§ 924.1 Purpose
§ 924.3 Definitions
§ 924.5 Policy
§ 924.7 Program Structure
§ 924.9 Planning
§ 924.11 Implementation
§ 924.13 Evaluation
§ 924.15 Reporting
MAP-21 Changes and Requirements for HSIP
- Items Removed (no longer exist under MAP-21)
- Transparency Report
- High Risk Rural Roads set-aside and reporting requirements
- 10% flexibility provision for States to use safety funding per 23 U.S.C. 148(e)
- Items Added
- State Strategic Highway Safety Plan update requirements
- Subset of model inventory of roadway elements
- HSIP reporting content and schedule
State Strategic Highway Safety Plan Update Requirements (924.9 Planning)
- SHSP update cycle: No later than 5 years from the previously approved version
- Consistent with current practice in most States
- Reflects current guidance
HSIP Reporting Content and Schedule (924.15 Reporting)
- Content
- Consistent with existing guidance
- Document and describe progress made to achieve annual safety performance targets
- Schedule
- Submit annually
- Due August 31
- Submit via online reporting tool
- FHWA posts HSIP reports to Office of Safety Website: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/reports/
MIRE Fundamental Data Elements (924.17 MIRE Fundamental Data Elements)
- Required to comply with section 1112 of MAP-21
- Establish a subset of the model inventory elements that are useful for the inventory of roadway safety; and
- Ensure that States adopt and use the subset to improve data collection
- MIRE (Model Inventory of Roadway Elements) FDE (Fundamental Data Elements)
- Needed to conduct enhanced safety analysis
- Potential to support other safety and infrastructure programs
- All public roads
- Consistent with State Safety Data Systems Guidance published December 26, 2012
MIRE FDE Outreach
- 2008 GAO Report, "Highway Safety Improvement Program: Further Efforts Needed to Address Data Limitations and Better Align Funding with States' Top Safety Priorities"
- 2009 FHWA Peer Exchange at Asset Management Conference
- December 2009 Webinars
- January 2010, TRB Listening Session
- August 2011 "Guidance Memorandum on Fundamental Roadway and Traffic Data Elements to Improve the Highway Safety Improvement Program"
- December 2012, "State Safety Data System" Guidance
MIRE Fundamental Data Elements (924.17 MIRE Fundamental Data Elements)
- Two Tables (roadway segments, intersections, interchanges/ramps)
- Roads with AADT ≥ 400 vehicles per day (37 elements)
- Roads with AADT < 400 vehicles per day (14 elements)
MIRE FDE for Roads > 400 AADT
Roadway Segments
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MIRE FDE for Roads > 400 AADT Intersections
- Unique Junction Identifier
- Location Identifier for Road 1 Crossing Point
- Location Identifier for Road 2 Crossing Point
- Intersection/Junction Geometry
- Intersection/Junction Traffic Control
- AADT [for each Intersection Road]
- AADT Year [for each Intersecting Road]
MIRE FDE for Roads > 400 AADT Interchanges/Ramps
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MIRE FDE for Roads < 400 AADT
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MIRE FDE Implementation Dates
- July 1, 2015* – Implementation plan for collecting MIRE FDE
- September 30, 2020* – Complete collection of MIRE FDE on all public roads
*Actual dates dependent upon effective date of final rule
Clarifications
- Use of HSIP Funds
- Performance management requirements
Use of HSIP Funds (924.5 Policy)
- HSIP funds are eligible for any highway safety improvement project:
- Infrastructure
- Non-infrastructure
- Use funding for projects with greatest potential to reduce a State's fatalities and serious injuries
- Use all other eligible funding for non-infrastructure projects prior to using HSIP funds
Performance Management Requirements
- Safety performance measures required to:
- Carry out the HSIP [23 U.S.C. 150(c)(4)]
- Consistency with:
- SHSP Performance Goals
- Evaluation
- Reporting
What's New in the Regulation Text?
Regulation Structure
§ 924.1 Purpose
§ 924.3 Definitions
§ 924.5 Policy
§ 924.7 Program Structure
§ 924.9 Planning
§ 924.11 Implementation
§ 924.13 Evaluation
§ 924.15 Reporting
§ 924.17 MIRE Fundamental Data Elements (new)
Section 924.1 Purpose
- Purpose of this regulation is to prescribe requirements for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a highway safety improvement program (HSIP) in each State
Section 924.3 Definitions
- Removed 8 definitions (no longer used)
- Revised 8 definitions (for clarity/consistency)
- Added 4 definitions (new terms)
- Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) Fundamental Data Elements (FDE)
- Reporting year
- Spot safety improvement
- Systemic safety improvement
Section 924.5 Policy – Paragraph (a)
- Editorial: objective to significantly reduce fatalities and serious injuries resulting from crashes on all public roads
Section 924.5 Policy – Paragraph (b)
- Deleted: 10% flex fund provisions
- Added: Funding shall be used for highway safety improvement projects that have the greatest potential to reduce a State's fatalities and serious injuries
- Clarify use of funds for non-infrastructure projects: FHWA will assess the use of other available funds (such as NHTSA, FMSCA)
Section 924.5 Policy – Paragraph (c)
- Removed: 1st sentence regarding use of other Federal-aid funds (repeated in 924.11 Implementation)
- Editorial: Updated references to National Highway Performance Program (NHPP) and Surface Transportation Program (STP); removed references to other funding sources that have been consolidated into other program areas
- Unchanged: Safety improvements that are part of a broader Federal-aid project should be funded from the same source as the broader project.
Section 924.7 Program Structure – Paragraph (a)
- Clarifies by listing main components of HSIP
- Strategic Highway Safety Plan;
- Railway-Highway Crossing Program; and
- Program of highway safety improvement projects
Section 924.7 Program Structure – Paragraph (b)
- Specifies a separate process for planning, implementation, and evaluation of the HSIP components listed in section 924.7(a) for all public roads in the State.
- Clarifies cooperation with FHWA Division Administrator and consultation with other safety stakeholders
- Removes references to processes that may be used (guidance, rather than regulation)
Section 924.9 Planning – Paragraph (a)
- Revised: Reflects sequence of actions in HSIP planning process
- Safety data
- Safety data includes all public roads
- Updating SHSP
- 11 sub-items (reordered/combined to reflect sequence)
- Process for analyzing safety data
- Items 5) and 6) minor revisions for clarification
Section 924.9 Planning – Paragraphs (b) and (c)
- Minor revisions for consistency
- Non-infrastructure safety projects
- Must be shown separately in the STIP
Section 924.11 Implementation
- Removes 10% flex funds and high risk rural roads to reflect MAP-21 changes
- Adds MIRE FDE elements:
- Implementation Plan by July 1, 2015
- Complete collection of MIRE FDE on all public roads 5 years after final rule
- Requires SHSP include actions that address SHSP emphasis areas
Section 924.13 Evaluation
- Clarifies the evaluation process
- Identifies how to use the results of the evaluation
Section 924.15 Reporting
- Removes Transparency and High Risk Rural Roads Reporting Requirements
- Identifies requirements, including content for HSIP report
- Submittal via online reporting tool required
- Structure of HSIP
- Process in implementing highway safety improvement projects
- Progress in achieving safety performance targets
- Effectiveness of highway safety improvement projects
- Section 508 compliant
- Railway-highway crossing improvements report (NO CHANGES)
Section 924.17 MIRE Fundamental Data Elements
- Two Tables (roadway segments, intersections, interchanges, ramps)
- Roads with AADT ≥ 400 vehicles per day (37 elements)
- Roads with AADT < 400 vehicles per day (14 elements)
Costs to Implement NPRM Requirements
- MAP-21 Requirements
- SHSP update cycle (none)
- HSIP report content and schedule (none)
- MIRE FDE (added costs to States)
- Clarifications
- Use of HSIP Funds (none)
- Performance management requirements (addressed elsewhere)
MIRE FDE Costs & Benefits
- Costs based on what is not already being collected through HPMS and other efforts
- Developing a statewide location referencing system (LRS) linkable with crash data
- Collecting the MIRE FDE on all public roadways
- Benefits associated with ability to better locate problem areas and apply appropriate countermeasures
- Difficult to quantify, break even analysis used instead
- MIRE FDE Cost Benefit Estimation Report http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/rsdp/fhwasa13018updated.cfm
Recap of HSIP NPRM
- Reflect changes required as a result of MAP-21
- Items Removed (no longer exist under MAP-21)
- Transparency Report
- High Risk Rural Roads set-aside
- 10% flexibility provision for States to use safety funding per 23 U.S.C. 148(e)
- Items Added
- State Strategic Highway Safety Plan update requirements
- HSIP reporting content and schedule
- Subset of Model Inventory of Roadway Elements
- Clarify existing program requirements
- Items Removed (no longer exist under MAP-21)
Comments on the NPRM
- Submit comments regarding:
- Economic, administrative, operational impacts of NPRM
- Specific burdens, impacts, and costs
- SHSP update cycle and related costs
- Timeframe for collecting and implementing MIRE FDE
- Additional data elements to collect to support safety analysis
- Systems to support MIRE FDE collection efforts
- Assumptions used in MIRE FDE benefit/costs estimation
- Ways to improve benefits and usefulness to the State
- All facets of proposed rulemaking
- Economic, administrative, operational impacts of NPRM
Submit comments to
www.regulations.gov
HSIP Docket Number:
FHWA-2013-0019
Safety TPM Docket Number:
FHWA-2013-0020