The MPO Role in Cooperative Safety Planning

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The MPO Role in Cooperative Safety Planning

• Florida Safety Summit
• June 30, 2006
• Bob Kamm, Brevard Co. MPO

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Opportunities for MPOs in Cooperative Safety
Planning

• Plan Development
• Data Collection
• Funding
• Education/Training
• Research

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Plan Development

• SAFETEA-LU safety planning factor increases MPO
  emphasis on safety
• Develop mutually supportive MPO and FDOT plans
• Coordinate safety goals, objectives and
  performance measures
• Active MPO role in developing SHSP

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Data Collection

• FDOT and DHSMV do not keep crash records off the
  SHS
• MPOs can help develop crash and other
  safety-related data bases that combine data from
  state and local sources
• Common data
• Common format

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Funding

• Prioritize projects for funding under new
  stand-alone federal safety program
• Support efforts to coordinate local and state
  safety funding activities
• Direct federal urban attributable funds to safety
  projects where applicable

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Education/Training

• On-going MPO outreach efforts can incorporate
  safety themes
• Presentations
• Brochures
• Displays
• Web sites
• MPO staff participation in safety related forums
  and training programs
• MPO official participation in MPOAC Institute

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Other MPO Opportunities

• Congestion Management Process (formerly CMS)
• Corridor, intersection and other studies
• Participation in Community Traffic Safety Teams
  (CTSTs)

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MPOAC Role

• Forum for statewide safety policy discussions
• Support safety-related regulatory and legislative
  proposals
• Elected official training through MPOAC Institute
• Information dissemination