Implementing the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan
AASHTO, along with several other organizations that represent state-based highway safety agencies, has adopted a goal of halving highway fatalities within two decades. AASHTO’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) was developed with input from numerous safety stakeholders and is the tool that is guiding our efforts in reaching this goal. This website contains the SHSP as well as other tools developed for the implementation of this plan.
Strategic Highway Safety Plan
"Tools for Life" is a joint effort to implement the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan effectively and drive down fatalities on the nation's highway fatalities. AASHTO has teamed with the Governors Highway Safety Association, Federal Highway Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program to develop tools that will enable federal, state, and local highway agencies to save lives. These tools were developed through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP).
Tools for Life
Current Activities
While AASHTO, with the help of many highway safety stakeholders, developed and adopted a Strategic Highway Safety Plan, and each state and many stakeholder organizations have their own strategic highway safety plans, there does not exist one strategy that unites all of these common efforts. The United States Department of Transportation (specifically through the Federal Highway Administration) and AASHTO have initiated an effort to develop a national approach to eliminating highway fatalities as a threat to public and personal health. Unlike the earlier AASHTO SHSP, this effort will not be owned by any one organization, but will be developed with input from the world of highway safety stakeholders. As part of this effort, AASHTO will be updating its own Strategic Highway Safety Plan. Additional information on Toward Zero Deaths: a National Strategy on Highway Safety.
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Highway Safety News
Highway fatalities decreased in 2008 for the 3rd year in a row, a 10 percent decrease from 2007. There were 2,346,000 injuries in 2008. Highway fatalities are the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 3 and 34. Nationwide seatbelt use rate is 82 percent. In short, significant progress has been made in improving highway safety but there is still a long way to go to eliminate highway fatalities as a public health threat.
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