Identify and implement spot location-based safety countermeasures on Connecticut’s State, local, and Tribal roads using the Suggested List of Surveillance Study Sites (SLOSSS) process.

Identify and implement low-cost, systemic safety countermeasures, and implement location-specific and proven safety countermeasures on Connecticut’s State, local, and Tribal roads.

Incorporate safety elements and countermeasures into all roadway and intersection project designs and maintenance improvements.

Support and strengthen engineering solutions that can affect driver behaviors that contribute to roadway departure and intersection crashes (e.g., speeding, traffic signal violations).

Provide education, training, and outreach to safety stakeholders and the public about roadway departure and intersection safety through the Safety Circuit Rider and other similar programs.

Improve driver awareness and compliance with traffic control devices.

Support High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) events that address speed and aggressive driving.

Purchase speed measuring devices for law enforcement agencies to use during speed enforcement.

Use Law Enforcement Liaisons (LEL) to link the Highway Safety Office, law enforcement agencies and other safety partners. LELs assist in organizing enforcement efforts and helping police agencies with other traffic safety activities.

Support statewide police traffic enforcement training such as Speed Management, Safe Communities, Work Zone Safety and Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS).

Increase enforcement especially High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) of Connecticut’s hand-held mobile phone ban for drivers. The number of citations written during grant funded overtime for hand-held mobile phone use will be used as a tracking measure for this strategy.

Educate the driving public regarding the dangers of distracted driving through media campaigns, public awareness campaigns, grassroots outreach and public information campaigns, and educational programs.

Increase the number of law enforcement agencies receiving impaired driving enforcement grants beyond the 76 that participated in 2016.

Increase the number of cooperating law enforcement agencies participating in high-visibility regional driving under the influence (DUI) enforcement.

Support all national high-visibility impaired driving holiday mobilizations by providing funding for overtime enforcement and media buys.

Increase successful prosecution and conviction of DUI offenders, which will lower the percent of adjudications resulting in verdicts other than guilty.

Increase the number of certified Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) Practitioners and Instructors by providing ongoing statewide coordination of SFST training to law enforcement.

Increase law enforcement recognition and conviction of various types of impaired driving beyond alcohol impairment by providing Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) training.

Participate in the National High Visibility Enforcement of safety belt and child safety seat enforcement mobilization: “Click It or Ticket” (CIOT) as well as sustained seat belt enforcement using statewide safety belt enforcement checkpoints and roving/saturation patrols during both day and night-time hours.

Conduct seat belt observation surveys before and after enforcement waves to measure the enforcement effects and to determine the statewide safety belt use rate.

Coordinate a comprehensive media campaign to include paid and earned media targeting high-risk groups (e.g., young males and pick‐up truck operators). Safety belt messages and images will include “Buckle Up CT” and “Click It or Ticket.”

Communicate the importance and correct use of child restraint systems through educational programs, outreach events, and public information campaigns.

Support the Highway Safety Office’s Seatbelt Initiatives Working Group Committee to help increase Connecticut’s belt use rate.

Continue to expand motorcycle rider education programs specifically the Connecticut Rider Education Program (CONREP), by updating curriculum to focus on rider responsibility and risk awareness.

Conduct a targeted media campaign promoting helmet use by all riders, not just the young riders covered under the existing law.

Conduct a targeted media campaign informing riders of the dangers of riding impaired. This campaign None for the Road will employ a web video bus boards and brochures. It will also be promoted through rider education courses at dealerships and in local rider organizations.

Maintain a website www.ride4ever.org aimed at changing unsafe riding behaviors.

Determine causes of non-motorized crashes through improved data collection and enhanced data analysis.

Identify and study areas with high incidences of non-motorized serious injuries and/or fatalities. Include recommended countermeasures on a location-specific basis.

Create methods and plans to improve environments along all public roadways for safe walking and bicycling through implementation of engineering treatments, land-use planning and system wide countermeasures.

Consider road diets, single-lane roundabouts, refuge islands, bike facilities, countdown and accessible pedestrian signals, sidewalks and traffic calming designs on State, local, and Tribal roadways.

Promote the use of traffic enforcement to increase compliance with traffic safety laws by all road users.

Ensure law enforcement is properly trained in the enforcement of safe use of roadways by non-motorized users.

Aim to reduce distraction by all road users.

Allocate a designated percent of safety-related funding for pedestrian and bicycle crash locations.

Renew the Safe Routes to Schools program.

Increase attention to non-motorized safety issues at the State, local and private levels.

Increase involvement at the State, local and private level to ensure that all users understand non-motorized safety laws and practices.

Improve public awareness of non-motorized users and methods to promote the safety of non-motorized users.

Improve the emergency response to pedestrians and bicyclists involved in crashes, including the ability of the general public to assist victims until EMT personnel arrive.

Establish a statewide TIM program with a lead agency to administer clearly defined responsibilities that meet the requirements of the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Implement a statewide NIMS-based Unified Response Manual (URM).

Reduce incident duration, which is achieved through (a) reducing the time to detect incidents, (b) initiating an expedient and appropriate response, and (c) clearing the incident as quickly as possible.

Improve Traveler Information to the media and public.

Conduct After-Action Reviews to improve response and scene management.

Continue to conduct public awareness programs to support effective on-scene traffic incident management by road users.

Promote best practices for traffic incident management and provide accessibility to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) tools.

Support regular multi-disciplinary TIM training and exercises.

Identify staffing needs and training resources for CTDOT staff and emergency responders.

Evaluate expansion of ITS infrastructure to additional regional corridors based on prioritized need.

Include Weather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM) strategies, such as Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS).

Support the development and tracking of TIM performance metrics following national standards and definitions.

Improve laws and regulations that are driven by enhanced stakeholder collaboration to enhance teen safety. (Novice drivers ages 16 and 17)

Improve laws and regulations for young drivers who are not subject to Connecticut’s Graduated Driver License (GDL) restrictions. (Other young drivers, ages 18-25)

Develop statewide communications strategies to increase the involvement of parents and the general public in encouraging safer teen drivers. (Novice drivers ages 16 and 17)

Develop strategies to address risky driving behavior exhibited by young drivers through enhanced media, education, and enforcement of applicable laws. (Other young drivers, ages 18-25)