1. MPO/RPO Safety Performance Measures

2. Performance Management – Why & Who
As part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) a federal rule making (23 CFR 490) was established to enact national performance management requirements to ensure that State DOTs and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) choose the most efficient investments for Federal transportation funds.

3. Performance Management – When & Where
Safety Performance Management Final Rule first published to Federal Register March 15, 2016
23 CFR Part 924 updated Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
23 CRF Part 490 added National Performance Management Measures for Safety

4. Performance Management - What
To address this 5 performance measures to assess performance and carry out the Highway Safety Improvement Program were established:
Number of fatalities
Rate of fatalities per 100 Million VMT
Number of serious injuries
Rate of serious injuries per 100 Million VMT
Number of combined non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious injuries

5. 2017 Strategic Highway Safety Plan
The goal established in the SHSP was to reduce fatalities and serious injuries by 2% annually
This would result in a PA specific SHSP goal to reduce 120 fatalities and 305 serious injuries over 5 years

6. Considerations for Performance Goal
Nationally there was an increase of over 7% in each of the last two years
Toward Zero Deaths Vision sets a national aspirational goal to eliminate fatalities
National goal established by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to eliminate fatalities in 30 years
Autonomous vehicles will become more evolved between 2025 and 2030 but the impacts remain unknown

7. Considerations for Performance Goal
PA data has shown a 1% fatality reduction based on historical state data
Based on all these considerations a 2% reduction goal was established to continue to push numbers downward to support national goals. The Department felt this was a stretch goal but still obtainable based on PA’s current data.

8. Recent PA Trends *
* Definition change occurred for serious injuries

9. Serious Injury Definition
Agencies must use the definition for "Suspected Serious Injury (A)" from the MMUCC, 4th edition by April 15, 2019.
Pennsylvania converted to this definition in January of 2016.
This conversion resulted in approximately 1,000 more suspected serious injuries than we previously had major injuries.
As a result, the targets for serious injuries and serious injury rate will appear to be going up for the next 4 years even though we are targeting a 2% reduction annually.

10. Performance Management - Statewide
Performance Measure
5-year Rolling Averages
TARGET
ACTUAL
BASELINE
Number of Fatalities
1,177.6
1,220.2
Fatality Rate
1.161
1.220
Number of Serious Injuries
3,799.8
3,434.0
Serious Injury Rate
3.746
3.433
Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Serious Injuries
654.4
602.4
For each of the 5 measures the State will be using a 2% annual reduction as our target.

11. Performance Management – Northwest RPO
Performance Measure
5-year Rolling Averages
TARGET
ACTUAL
BASELINE
Number of Fatalities
30.6
37.6
Fatality Rate
1.17
1.416
Number of Serious Injuries
105.0
100.8
Serious Injury Rate
4.014
3.828
Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Serious Injuries
11.1
9.4
For planning purposes the RPO should consider the above values to support the State in meeting the 2% annual reduction target.

12. Performance Management - When
PennDOT targets established Aug. 31, 2017
MPO/RPOs establish targets or support PennDOT targets by Feb. 28, 2018

13. Performance Management - When

14. Performance Management - When
Language being developed to help describe how STIP/TIP contributes to achieving performance targets

15. FHWA Safety Performance Management Fact Sheet
Supporting Links
FHWA Safety Performance Management Fact Sheet
FHWA Metropolitan Planning Organization Safety Performance Measures Fact Sheet
2017 Pennsylvania Strategic Highway Safety Plan

16. Questions
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