Utah: Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report
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Utah: Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report

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  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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    Utah. Department of Transportation
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    From 2013-2016, the State of Utah experienced an increase in traffic fatalities each year. The 2017-2019 period marked a return to our past long-term downward trends in fatalities. Serious injury crashes peaked in 2015 and then trended downward through 2019. However, 2020 experienced a higher number of fatal and serious injury crashes than the year before as Utah mirrored trends seen in other states during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are hopeful that our efforts to prioritize safety projects with the greatest potential to reduce fatalities and serious injuries will lead to a resumption of the downward trends in those crash types as more normal traffic patterns emerge following the pandemic. We continue to use both crash analysis and systemic modeling to identify the projects most likely to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. We modified our project selection process in 2019 to fund the projects with the highest B/C ratios even if doing so results in HSIP funding not being allocated to each region of the state evenly. The first year of this change has proven to be a success and we expect that continuing along this path will lead to the best projects being funded each year. The FAST Act approved by Congress five years ago removed our ability to fund education and enforcement efforts with HSIP funds. We have been using State funds to continue these programs. Education and enforcement remain important parts of our comprehensive safety strategy to reduce severe crashes. During FY21, we updated our Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The plan is currently awaiting signature from the UDOT Executive Director and should be signed shortly after submitting this annual HSIP report. The new SHSP has been upgraded to emphasize a web-based version rather than a static PDF report. The new web version is complete with charts that show real-time crash and fatalities data. This allows SHSP readers to use this real-time data to track progress and inform decisions regarding the different focus areas.
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