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Transportation Safety Planning (TSP) is a comprehensive, system-wide, multimodal, proactive process that better integrates safety into surface transportation decision-making.
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The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which was signed into law on August 10, 2005, (Public Law 105-99) established the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) as a core Federal-aid program. The overall purpose of this program is...
Table 5: Number and Cost of 2016 Projects by Improvement Category
| Category | Sub-category |
|---|---|
| Access management | Access management – other |
| Change in access – close or restrict existing access | |
| Change in access – miscellaneous/unspecified | |
| Grassed median – extend existing | |
| Median crossover – close crossover | |
| Median crossover – directi |
The HSIP is a performance-driven program that uses data and analysis to target safety resources. This HSIP 2017 National Summary Report shows that in 2017, States directed HSIP funds to address the predominant infrastructure -related crash types: roadway departure, intersection and pedestrian crashes, similar to previous years. On average, States obligated 40 percent of HSIP funds to address systemic improvements.
FHWA also conducted a national evaluation of the HSIP to estimate expected program results using the project information from the 2017 HSIP reports. The purpose of the evaluation was to estimate a national benefit cost ratio for the HSIP. The HSIP national benefit cost ratio provides an indication of the programs national impact and the benefits the public can expect from investments in the HSIP.
The HSIP National Summary Baseline Report 2009-2012 reported project and cost information for HSIP reports submitted by the States for years 2009-2012. The information from the baseline report is summarized below with the purpose of comparing basic cost and project information to the 2013 through 2017 reports. Table 3 below shows that States obligated $24.9B for more than 29,000 projects over the eight-year period. These obligations include not only HSIP funds apportioned during the reporting period (2009-2017), but also HSIP funds available from previous years' apportionments.
The number and cost of HSIP projects continues to increase each year. As shown in Table 1 below, the total number of projects and cost of projects did not change much from 2013 to 2014 but between 2015 and 2016, there were roughly 1000 more projects reported. This increasing trend continued in 2017, with an increase of about 500 projects over 2016. However, the breakdown in project costs for various breakpoints was similar across years.
Table 1. Total number of projects and project cost breakdown, 2013-2017