Strategies that may be implemented to detect speeding and support law enforcement include strengthening speed detection, exploring automated enforcement, using red-light running cameras, implementing confirmation lights, and employing high-visibility enforcement.

Additional law enforcement resources may be identified to reduce speed-related fatalities and serious injuries, such as purchasing, deploying, and utilizing speed measuring devices, and using Law Enforcement Liaisons to link partners.

Strategies to improve understanding and awareness of the impacts of speed and crash outcomes include providing additional education and public information to better understand the consequences of speeding and aggressive driving, especially in marginalized communities and areas with an overrepresentation of speed-related severe crashes.

Incorporate infrastructure treatments to reduce aggressive and speeding behavior by employing traffic calming strategies.

Strategies that may be implemented to detect speeding and support law enforcement include analyzing data to identify contributing factors.

Judicial and legislative strategies to reduce speeding-related fatalities and severe injuries may include supporting legislation to strengthen penalties and strengthening adjudication of speed citations.

Incorporate infrastructure treatments to reduce aggressive and speeding behavior by preparing Complete Streets policies and implementation projects.

Enforcement and education strategies should be considered for reducing distracted driver-related fatalities and severe injuries, such as increasing enforcement, especially conducting high-visibility distracted driving enforcement campaigns.

Enforcement and education strategies should be considered for reducing distracted driver-related fatalities and severe injuries such as educating the driving public regarding the dangers of distracted driving through media campaigns, public awareness campaigns, public information campaigns, and education programs, outreach to programs addressing social norms, and incorporating family safe driving agreements in driver education classes.

Partnerships and technology strategies may support the reduction of fatalities and severe injuries due to distraction, such as partnering with employers, promoting the use of smartphone technology to limit or eliminate calls or texting while driving, and promoting understanding of vehicle technology.

Strategies to improve public information and strengthen enforcement against impaired driving include educating, communicating, publicizing, and enforcing zero tolerance laws, sanctions for high blood alcohol content (BAC) offenders and for first-time high BAC offenders, reducing the BAC limit from 0.08 to 0.05, increasing the number of law enforcement agencies receiving grants, increasing the number of officers trained and expanding the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing program focusing on local law enforcement, expanding officers trained in Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and increasing the number of officers certified as Drug Recognition Experts (DRE).

Strategies focusing on prosecution and imposing sanctions may be implemented or enhanced, such as increasing law enforcement recognition and conviction of impairment beyond alcohol, increasing prosecution and conviction of DUI offenders, assessing administration of licensing sanctions, implementing DUI offender license plate sanctions, establishing high-supervision Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Courts, removing the option for refusal of BAC tests, and educating officers and courts to identify re-offense and felony charges.

Strategies to reduce excessive and underage drinking include supporting media buys for increased public awareness and education to reduce impaired driving and continuing to engage high school students in educational events and peer-to-peer activities.

Strategies to reduce excessive and underage drinking include developing safe-ride community partnerships, seeking partnerships with ride-share programs, improving access to transit, expanding screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment, and prohibiting open alcohol containers in passenger vehicles.

Strategies reducing fatal and serious-injury crashes at signalized intersections may include flashing yellow arrows, permissive to protected phasing, optimizing clearance intervals, eliminating turning movements, signal coordination, pedestrian phasing and timing, and conversion to roundabout.

Strategies that may be implemented to reduce angle and turning crashes include left-turn channelization, right-turn channelization, Restricted Crossing U-turn, continuous Green T intersection to provide free-flow operations in one direction on the arterial by using acceleration/merge lanes for left-turn movements from the cross street, and improving bike and pedestrian accommodations.

The below strategies improve driver awareness at signalized intersections: signal head backplates, 12-inch LED lenses, and mast arms with street names.

Strategies for reducing fatal and severe crashes at unsignalized intersections may include left-turn/offset left-turn lanes, acceleration lanes, right-turn/offset right-turn lanes, closing median openings, realigning intersection approaches, Restricted Crossing U-turn, closing intersections, and improving geometry—skew or radial T.

Strategies to improve driver awareness and improve operations at unsignalized intersections include signing and pavement markings such as advanced street name signs, warning signs, and doubling up of signing, street lighting, LED stop signs, dynamic speed feedback signs, dynamic intersection conflict warning systems, urbanization approaches, roundabouts, and all-way stop.

Strategies that may be considered to improve driver compliance and access management include driveway closures and clear sight triangles.

The below strategies improve driver awareness at signalized intersections: educating the public to improve understanding of traffic control devices and improving driver training content.

Strategies that may be considered to improve driver compliance and access management include red-light running cameras, confirmation lights for red-light running, restricting access to properties, and restricting cross-median access.

Strategies to strengthen awareness and education should be implemented, such as conducting targeted media to promote helmet use, conducting targeted media to inform riders of the dangers of impaired riding, maintaining and promoting websites aimed at changing unsafe riding behavior, promoting awareness of high-visibility clothing, strengthening social norms around helmet use, expanding the CT Rider Education Program, encouraging riders to obtain motorcycle endorsement, running campaigns about sharing the road with motorcycles, and campaigning on the benefits of the CT Rider Education Program.

Data analysis, prioritization, and enforcement strategies reduce motorcycle-related fatalities and severe injuries with strategies such as conducting nighttime high-visibility enforcement along with improved messaging and communication and expanding vehicle impoundment for substance-impaired and high-speed riders.

Strategies should be implemented to improve visibility through highly visible and protective wear, such as enacting a universal helmet-use law and promoting Snell-certified helmets.

Data analysis, prioritization, and enforcement strategies reduce motorcycle-related fatalities and severe injuries with strategies such as analyzing data to identify locations and times for impairment and speed enforcement.

Strategies for improving awareness for pedestrian safety include data collection of pedestrian infrastructure elements and pedestrian exposure.

Strategies should be implemented to reduce pedestrian exposure such as sidewalks, accessible pedestrian signals, pedestrian refuge islands, curb extensions, pedestrian bridge/tunnel installation, countdown timers, leading pedestrian intervals (LPI), and road diets.

Strategies that improve visibility for pedestrians include crosswalk enhancements, crosswalk illumination, eliminating screening by physical objects, pedestrian hybrid beacons (PHB), rectangular rapid flashing beacon pedestrian crosswalk systems (RRFBs), installing crosswalks at roundabouts, evaluating and improving access at transit stops, and adding sidewalk connectivity and accessibility to/from transit stops.

Safe speed or slowing vehicle strategies to improve safety for pedestrians include speed humps, speed feedback signs, installing chicanes, semi-diverters, speed tables/raised crosswalks, and full/partial diverters and street closures.

Strategies for improving awareness for pedestrian safety include enforcement campaigns and disallowing plea bargaining for violations in pedestrian crossing laws.

Strategies should be implemented to reduce pedestrian exposure such as updating policy to make LPI and other proven safety countermeasures “standard” treatments in CT on all projects.

Strategies for improving awareness for pedestrian safety include pedestrian road safety audits, complete streets policies, renaming and updating the Highway Design Manual to reflect the complete street design aspect.

Safe speed or slowing vehicle strategies to improve safety for pedestrians include reducing statutory speed limits, continuing to allow municipalities to set speed limits and create pedestrian safety zones, and implementing a speed management training program.

Strategies for improving awareness for pedestrian safety include education, outreach, and training, and education campaigns in high-risk communities

The strategies to keep vehicles from encroaching on the roadside along tangents may include enhanced edgeline markings, shoulder rumble strips, eliminating edge drop-offs, shoulder widening, and Safety Edge.

The strategies to keep vehicles from encroaching on the roadside at curves may include chevrons, advanced signing, high-friction surface treatment, improving geometry such as changing the superelevation and widening the radius, educating the public on safety treatment effectiveness, and lighting.

Strategies to keep vehicles on the road via speed management may include speed management pavement markings and speed feedback signs.

Strategies that may be implemented to minimize the likelihood of crashing into an object or overturning vehicles include safer slopes, increasing clear zone widths, and improving barriers.

Head-on crashes may be reduced by implementing the following strategies: centerline rumble strips, center buffers, and median barriers.

Comprehensive effective strategies for mitigating roadway departure crashes include road safety audits, reviewing design practices on non-safety projects to strengthen the analysis of safety data to improve the safety benefit on all capital projects, and evaluating the Safe Systems Approach to integrate those principles into CTDOT’s planning/design.

Strategies to keep vehicles on the road via speed management may include providing education to users on safe speeds.

Strategies to keep vehicles on the road via speed management may include updating speed limit setting policy.

Comprehensive effective strategies for mitigating roadway departure crashes include automotive technology, promoting smartphone applications that monitor speeds and provide feedback to users, insurance companies, or parents of new drivers, Regional Transportation Safety Plans (RTSPs), expanding and utilizing Safety Circuit Rider Programs, and conducting equity analysis and equity stakeholder inclusion.

Comprehensive effective strategies for mitigating roadway departure crashes include safety corridors with enforcement.

Strengthening laws and enforcement to reduce fatalities and serious injuries related to unrestrained occupants such as primary enforcement for rear seated passengers, high-visibility and highly publicized focused enforcement, seatbelt enforcement checkpoints, before and after seatbelt observation surveys, and coordinated nighttime belt enforcement with other offenses.

Communication and education campaigns are also effective in reducing unrestrained occupant-related fatalities and severe injuries, such as child passenger safety events in underserved communities, communicating child restraint system information through outreach and campaigns, social norming campaigns, and “Saved by the Belt” campaigns.