Regional Safety Action Plan
What is a Regional Safety Action Plan?
This is an essential planning document that aids in identifying strategies and project locations to achieve the safety goals, which were established in the region’s Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), “SmartMoves for a Changing Region”, and attain the five federal safety performance measure targets for the region. The RSAP supplements PennDOT’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), by identifying regional safety focus, and location specific improvement areas. With the 2021 development of the federal “Safe Systems” approach, guidelines, grant opportunities, and Proven Safety Countermeasures (PSC), the SPC 2025 RSAP incorporates safety programs, projects, and policies that work towards zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries. A “safe system” harnesses safety tools that could be focused on infrastructure, the transportation industry, human behavior, vulnerable roadway users, and emergency response as relevant.
The goal is zero deaths & serious injuries on our roadways. The plan maps out how we reach this goal.
SPC HAS UPDATED THE REGIONAL SAFETY ACTION PLAN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
This is a different roadway safety plan that uses the Safe System Approach. The approach recognizes that humans makes mistakes and that deaths & suspected serious injury crashes are not an acceptable cost of traveling in your communities.
To develop this safety plan, we compiled data, local expertise, and public feedback to find the locations where people are most at risk of fatal or serious injury. We can identify projects, policies, and programs that solve these risks, and we will work together to implement them.
The goal is zero deaths & suspected serious injuries on our roadways. The Safe System Approach is how we reach this goal.
Calls to Action
- SPC commits to reducing fatal or life-altering injuries on Southwestern Pennsylvania’s transportation system to Zero by 2075.
- Increase attentive driving.
- Increase sober driving.
- Increase calm driving.
- Increase use of protective gear.
- Increase regional safety culture.
- Support both youth and older driver training.
- Support all vulnerable road users.
- Continue to use Road Safety Audits to employ Proven Safety Countermeasures to the High Injury Network.
- Continue to support & strengthen Traffic Incident Management, HSIP projects, and Safe Routes to School.
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Welcome to the SPC Regional Vision Zero Crash Dashboard for 2020 – 2024
How to use the dashboard
We have designed the dashboard using the Tableau platform. It shows a lot of data without having to change any of the settings. However, this guide helps you use the dashboard to explore the data in different ways.
Each section in the dashboard is fully interactive, meaning you can click, select, filter, and hover over any items in a map or chart to change the display or show more information.
How to filter
Another filter type in the dashboard is the checklist. In the example here, you can deselect the categories you don’t want to display in the map or chart. The example here is a drop-down checklist that will display when you click on the drop-down arrow pictured at right. Deselect the items you don’t want to display on the map. To add data back to the display, click on the appropriate check boxes. See something we could improve on this page? Give dashboard feedback.
Relevant Publications
- Annual Reports
- None Currently. Please check back.
- Meeting Minutes and Agendas
- None Currently. Please check back.
- Roadway Operations and TSMO
- None Currently. Please check back.
- Road Safety Audits
- None Currently. Please check back.
We want to hear from you!
Learn more about planning for safety on your roads ‘Get Safe!’ plan by completing our Contact Form. If you have a community event and would like one of our transportation operations & safety planners to attend or speak about our ongoing “Get Safe!” efforts, please send us an email at eschoss@spcregion.org or nhirsch@spcregion.org.
Project Manager Contacts
Manager, Transportation Operations and Safety
(412) 391-5590 x0338
eschoss@spcregion.org
Transportation Planner III - Operations and Safety
(412) 391-5590 x0362
NHirsch@spcregion.org