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District of Columbia: Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report
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2021-01-01
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Abstract:This Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 annual report to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) describes the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT)'s strategic use of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) funding of the District’s Highway Safety Improvement Programs (HSIP) for FY 2021. The FAST Act requires the development of a Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) and the Railway-Highway Crossings Program (RHGCP). Due to its urban nature, the District of Columbia transportation system does not contain any rural roads. All roadways within the District are functionally classified as urban roads. In the District of Columbia, most railway crossings are grade-separated from the highway and the relatively few at grade railway crossings no longer carry active railroad traffic. The District has regularly requested that funds allocated for the RHGCP be made available for HSIP in the District of Columbia. To obligate Safety funds, among other requirements, the District must have in effect a State highway safety improvement program under which the District develops, implements, and updates a Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The SHSP identifies and analyzes highway safety problems and opportunities as described under the program. (23 U.S.C. §148(c)(1)(A)). The SHSP Update was approved on March 2, 2021 for years 2020 through 2025. The District is also required to produce a program of projects or strategies to reduce safety problems, evaluate the HSIP plan on a regular basis, and submit an annual transparency report – which is accomplished by this annual report. The HSIP requires a data-driven, strategic approach to improving highway safety on all public roads that focus on performance. DDOT continues to operate the Traffic Safety Data Center at Howard University, which was established to support DDOT and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in developing and sustaining an effective process for providing timely, accurate, complete, uniform, and accessible traffic and related transportation data. The Traffic Data Center at Howard University prepares the annual crash report for the District of Columbia, which helps to satisfy federal requirements on reporting traffic crashes, provide a resource for identifying safety trends, aid in the development of countermeasures, and evaluating the results of highway safety programs, projects, and policies. In addition, DDOT continues to upgrade the TARAS (Traffic Accident Record and Analysis System). The system underwent an update in fiscal year 2020 to further support the District’s efforts to improve this crash data analysis tool, but incremental improvements to the software continue. Developed specifically for the District, TARAS automatically accesses and processes MPD crash data and extracts all pertinent variables fields, while providing visualization needs.
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