Background

The STATE SHSP has an overall goal of reducing the number of roadway fatalities to more than XXX annually by the end of XXXX. One of the emphasis areas identified in the SHSP is to improve roadway departure safety. Roadway departure fatalities within the State account for approximately XX percent of all fatalities. The SHSP provides insight on broad initiatives in the roadway departure safety area to support achieving the overall goal, but it lacks detail regarding countermeasures, actions, deployment characteristics, costs, impacts, and key steps that have to be taken to improve roadway departure safety significantly. The roadway departure portion of the tentative SHSP goal is a XX percent reduction of roadway departure fatalities by XXXX. The purpose of this plan is to provide the specific details on countermeasures, actions, key steps, schedules, and investments needed to achieve that goal.