Traffic Safety Performance Measures

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Traffic SafetyPerformanceMeasures
for Federal State Agencies
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• Performance Measures Help Us
• Define Priority Objectives
• Focus Programs
• Measure Progress

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Others Are Interested

• GAO
• Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would
  Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns
• DOT/ OIG
• Effectiveness of Federal Drunk Driving Programs
  
• Senate Appropriations Report
• The Committee expects NHTSA to improve the
  performance measures, so that we can be sure that
  the funding provided to States is having its
  intended impact.

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Expert Panel Developed Performance Measures

• GHSA
• State Highway Safety Offices
• State DOTs
• IACP
• Academic Research Organizations
• NHTSA
• FHWA

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14 Consensus Performance Measures

• Core Outcome Measures
• Overall fatalities
• Serious injuries
• Fatalities/VMT
• Unrestrained fatalities
• .08 fatalities
• Speeding fatalities
• Motorcycle fatalities
• Unhelmeted fatalities
• lt20 year old drivers in fatals
• Pedestrian fatalities

• Core Behavioral Measure
• Observed Belt Use
• Activity Measures
• Belt citations
• Speeding citations
• DWI arrests

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Developmental Measures

• Attitudes/Awareness Surveys
• Injury Measures
• Enforcement Measures
• Speed monitoring

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Performance Measure Implementation

• Progress discussions for 2010 HSP development
• Working on developmental measures
• Core and activity measure reports beginning in
  2010 HSPs and Annual Reports