A Message from the FHWA Associate Administrator for Safety
A report from the FHWA blog, Safety Compass, on the agency's 2019-2022 strategy
October 30, 2019
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The following message was shared in October 2019 by the Federal Highway Administration's Associate Administrator for Safety in the FHWA blog, Safety Compass, outlining the agency's safety strategy for fiscal years 2019 through 2022.
The mission of the Federal Highway Administration is to enable and empower the strengthening of a world-class highway system that promotes safety, mobility, and economic growth, while enhancing the quality of life of all Americans. FHWA will work closely with our partners and stakeholders to continue our quest to eliminate traffic-related deaths on our Nation's highways and roads. To help guide us toward zero deaths, early last fall the agency issued the FHWA Strategic Plan FY2019-2022.
In addition to reiterating the agency's mission, the Strategic Plan outlines FHWA's values, strategic goals, and strategic objectives, aligning our efforts with the strategic goals for safety, infrastructure, innovation, and accountability in the FY 2018-2022 USDOT Strategic Plan. Developed to complement and support the USDOT Strategic Plan, the FHWA Strategic Plan also describes key programs, initiatives, and performance measures associated with each of the FHWA strategic goals and objectives.
At the Office of Safety, our highest priority goal is to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries across the transportation system, and this new plan will help us accomplish that as we continue to advance performance-driven highway safety management practices and further advocate for the deployment of innovative safety countermeasures. We will reach our goal by:
Doubling down on what works
Through proven, evidence-based strategies and solutions such as the new EDC-5 Reducing Rural Roadway Departures resources and the new tools for improving vulnerable road user safety and intersection safety.
Advancing life-saving technology
In vehicles and infrastructure, such as using connected and autonomous vehicles to reduce roadway departure crashes and using high-friction surface treatments to keep vehicles on the road.
Prioritizing safety
By adopting a safe systems approach and creating a positive safety culture.
The message closed by encouraging State, local, Tribal, and other safety partners who had not yet reviewed the many resources supporting these efforts to do so, and invited readers to download the new FY 2019-22 FHWA Strategic Plan to learn more about FHWA's strategic goals.
Do Your Part for Safer Roads
FHWA-recommended countermeasures start with proper signage. We manufacture MUTCD-compliant regulatory, warning, and guide signs for roads of every size.