Safety Plan Review
Safety Plan Review
Table 6 . Successes and Opportunities for Arlington ' s Safety Program
Successes Opportunities Safe Streets Arlington
• Many plans have clear safety •
goals and objectives that support a goal of reducing or eliminating
traffic fatalities and serious injuries
Incorporate safety goals and objectives from existing plans into Safe Streets Arlington
• Formalize a policy to reduce fatal and KAB crashes
• Incorporate safe system language
• Vision statement identifies
multidisciplinary team , approach , and users to achieve safety goals ,
and highlights equity in decision making for programs and
projects
• Safety goal aligns with regional goal to " Eliminate fatal crashes from all modes of travel by 2050 " - Regional Roadway Safety Plan , 2023
• Many plans documented
engagement activities , including focus groups and surveys
• Local plans involved public and steering committees at opportunistic times
• Utilize multiple methods of • Engagement activities include
engagement at many stages of the project where feedback can influence outcomes
project website , on line surveys , internal and external stakeholder committee meetings , and public meetings ; feedback influenced
outcomes of the plan
• Will sustain stakeholder committees to implement the safety program after plan adoption
• Many plans utilize TxDOT CRIS data to inform decision-making
• The Texas Pedestrian Safety Action Plan and Texas Vulnerable
Road Users Assessment developed crash methodologies for vulnerable road users
• Other data sources are also used to understand crashes , including equity , demographics , and road characteristics
• Local plans include benchmarking to frame transportation challenges ( statewide , regional , and comparable cities )
• Utilize additional data to augment safety decision-making
• Use TxDOT CRIS data for crash trends , contributing factors , and
crash locations
• Develop performance metrics and targets tied to safety concerns
• Uses 2018-2022 TxDOT CRIS
crash data
• Identifies crash types and risk factors for a systematic and
proactive approach to identifying locations with safety needs
• Actions in the plan support further data and analysis of most recent data , and new and varied
data sources to inform safety efforts ; actions also include
updates to existing local plans for considering equity , street typologies , and land use context , as well as level of traffic stress for non-motorized users
COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY ACTION PLAN 21