1. Performance Measures:
FHWA Safety Performance Measure final rule established five performance measures utilizing five year moving averages:
Numbers of Fatalities
Rate of Fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
Number of Serious Injuries
Rate of Serious Injuries
Number of Non-Motorized Fatalities and Non-Motorized Serious Injuries.

2. Safety Planning Overview
Where Are we?
What are the current values for the Safety Performance Measures
Where are we headed?
What do the trends in safety tell us about past progress.
Where do we need to go
The Performance targets:
How do we get there?
Strategies to improve the performance measures
The Safety Technical Report explains the first Two items

3. What’s in the Report Total Crashes within TwinCATS between 2006-2015
Number of Fatalities and Serious Injuries
10 years of safety trends
Non-Motorized Crashes, Fatalities, and Serious Injuries
Location of Crashes

4. Data Sources UD-10 Report
A uniform Report every law enforcement agency uses to record details of a crash
Compiled by MDOT and distributed to Roadsoft and MichigancrashFacts.org

5. 35,092 people died in vehicle crashes in 2015
Although the U.S. population has been growing steadily since 1975, the rate of crash deaths per 100,000 population in 2015 is about half of what it was 40 years ago. However, the overall per capita death rate and the per capita death rate for passenger vehicle occupants in 2015 increased 6 percent from the rates in 2014.
35,092 people died in vehicle crashes in 2015
Up 7.2 percent from 32,744 in  
Largest percentage increase in nearly 50 years.
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

6. Annual Crashes, Fatalities, and Serious Injuries
Compared to the number of total crashes fatalities and serious injuries are rare
Lowest year for crashes was 2012, Highest Year was 2008
Lowest year for fatalities was Highest Year was 2013
Lowest year for Serious Injuries was Highest was 2007
Year
Total Crashes
Fatalities
Serious Injuries
2006
2,180 12 47
2007
2,439 77
2008
2,740 11 67
2009
2,306 5 36
2010
2,027 15 57
2011
2,015 9 32
2012
1,917 4 45
2013
2,150 16 44
2014
2,253 7
2015
2,308 37
Total
22,335
100
478

7. PERFORMANCE MEASURE: Number of Fatalities And the Number of Serious Injuries: 5-yr Moving Average
Year
Total Crashes
Fatalities
Serious Injures
2011
2305
10.4
53.8
2012
2201
8.8
47.4
2013
2083
9.8
42.8
2014
2072
10.2
2015
2129
9.0
38.8
Fatalities and Serious Injuries are what will be reported for the Safety Performance Measures

8. Trends in Total Crashes
High Variability per year but no clear Trend. Crashes have not been significantly increasing or decreasing

9. Trends in Fatalities and Serious Injuries
Serious Injuries have been declining. Fatalities have remained stable.

10. Comparison to Statewide Trends - Fatalities
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF TRENDS. NOT TO SCALE
More Variation in TwinCATS but Both the State and TwinCATS Show no overall Trend in Fatalities.

11. Comparison to Statewide Trends- Serious Injuries
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF TRENDS. NOT TO SCALE
More Variation in TwinCATS but Both the State and TwinCATS Show a Decrease in Serious Injuries

12. Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes
Year
Total Crashes
Pedestrian
Bicyclist
Total Non-Motorized Crashes
2006
2,180 26 12 38
2007
2,439 17 11 28
2008
2,740 19 18 37
2009
2,306 13 15
2010
2,027 31
2011
2,015 21 39
2012
1,917 14
2013
2,150 30
2014
2,253
2015
2,308
Total
22,335
186
135
321

13. Pedestrian & Bike Fatalities & Serious Injuries
Pedestrians & Bikes
321 Crashes
17 Fatalities
57 Serious Injuries
1.5% of All Crashes
17% of All Fatalities
12% of All Serious Injuries
Pedestrian
Bicyclist
Year
Fatalities
Serious Injuries
2006 1 6
2007 2
2008 3
2009
2010 7
2011 4
2012 5
2013
2014
2015
Total 14 42 15

14. Fatalities & Serious Injuries
PERFORMANCE MEASURE: Number of Non-Motorized Fatalities and Non-Motorized Serious Injuries: 5-yr Moving Average
Pedestrian
Bicyclist
Non-Motorized Total
Year
Fatalities
Serious Injuries
Fatalities & Serious Injuries
2011
1.6
4.2 2 8
2012
1.4
4.8
1.8
2013
0.2
1.2
7.2
2014 4 7
2015
3.6
0.4

15. Comparison to Statewide Trends Non-Motorized Fatalities & Serious Injuries
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF TRENDS. NOT TO SCALE
More Variation in TwinCATS but Both the State and TwinCATS Show a Decrease in Non-Motorized Fatalities & Serious Injuries

16. Where Are the Crashes Occurring?

17. Crash Density Total Crashes: 22,335 All Crashes 2006-2015
Within a 100 Meter Radius of Each Other
Total Crashes:
22,335

18. Highest Crash Road Segments
From To
Jurisdiction
Crashes
M-139
Fairplain Dr
E Napier Ave
Benton Twp
147
Mall Dr
Cinema Way
Pipestone Rd
128
Mall Place
110
Ogden Ave
Union St
108
City of Benton Harbor
Nickerson Ave
101
Hilltop Rd
S Cleveland Ave
Lakeview Ave
St Joseph
E I 94
Red Arrow Hwy (exit 23)
Roosevelt Rd
Lincoln Twp 94
Washington Ave
Niles Rd
St Joseph Twp 88
Milton St 85
Riverfront Path
Lincoln Ave 77

19. Highest Crash Intersections
Jurisdiction
Number of Crashes
M-139 & Napier Ave
Benton Twp
213
Pipestone Rd & Mall Dr
189
M-139 & Nickerson
184
M-139 Pipestone Rd
160
M-139 & Fairplain Dr
156
Hilltop Rd & S Cleveland Ave
St Joseph
155
E Napier Ave & Union St
144
Niles Rd & W I 94/Niles RAMP
St Joseph Twp
140
Washington Ave & Hilltop Rd
139
Main St & Ship St
129

20. Zoomed in View of Highest Crash Locations

21. Fatal & Serious Injury Crash Density 2006-2015
Within a 100 Meter Radius of Each Other

22. Location of Fatal Crashes

23. Fatalities and Serious Injuries by Road Type
MDOT = 46%
Locally Controlled = 54%
MDOT =47%
Locally Controlled = 53%

24. Pedestrian & Bicycle Crash Density 2006-2015
Within a 100 Meter Radius of Each Other

25. Pedestrian and Bike Highest Crash Roads
Road Name
Non-motorized Crashes
Fatalities & Serious Injuries
Napier 19 6
Empire 13 3
Main 11 2
Pipestone
I-94 10 9
Crystal 5
Broadway
Niles 8
Ogden
Lakeshore 1

28. Calculating Crash Rates:
Yearly VMT
Fatalities
Serious Injuries
2011
711,197,427 8 24
2012
703,222,943 3 32
2013
724,719,326 12 35
2014
784,502,895 5 29
2015
756,114,619 30
The Rate Allows Safety Comparisons Between Different Areas
Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) was only Attainable for the Urbanized Area, Not all of TwinCATS.
Only 5 years of VMT was available

29. Crash Rates
Fatality Rate
Serious Injury Rate
2011
1.12
3.37
2012
0.43
4.55
2013
1.66
4.83
2014
0.64
3.70
2015
0.66
3.97
yr average
.90
4.08
Changes in VMT alone can’t explain changes in fatalities or serious injuries
Only have 5 years so we can’t see trends using the moving average
TwinCATS* has a lower fatality rate than Michigan or The U.S.
*Based on the Urbanized Area
Comparison between TwinCATS, State, and National Fatality Rates 5-yr average
Twin CATS
State
U.S.
0.90
0.96
1.11