Arizona Strategic Traffic Safety Plan (STSP)

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) & Active Transportation Safety Action Plan (ATSAP)

Public Meetings and Input

ADOT is updating its Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) and Active Transportation Safety Action Plan (ATSAP). The project team will hold a series of in-person and virtual meetings April 30 - May 9 to provide a plan overview and solicit public input.

Meeting details can be found here

The public can provide comments through May 17 in the following ways:

• Attend a public meeting
• Complete an online survey at: adotsafetyplan.com 
• Email: [email protected] 
• Call the bilingual phone line at: 1-855-712-8530
• Mail ADOT at: ADOT SHSP & ATSAP, 1655 W. Jackson, MD 126F, Phoenix, AZ 85007

2024 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) & Active Transportation Safety Action Plan (ATSAP)

• SHSP Vision: Creating shared responsibility so everyone arrives safely home.
• SHSP Goal: Reduce life-altering traffic crashes by 20% by 2030.

Federal regulations require all states to have a Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) that provides a comprehensive framework for reducing fatalities and serious injuries on public roadways and improving the safety of Arizona’s public roadways so everyone arrives safely home is a top priority for the ADOT.

While Arizona’s population has increased 12% since 2013, our recent safety data reveals a concerning trend. Annual traffic fatalities have increased 55%, with pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities having increased 90%. ADOT is taking action in cooperation with local, state, federal and other safety stakeholders to reverse this trend by developing the SHSP, a data-driven, multi-year safety plan that establishes a statewide vision, goal, and strategies for improving safety with the goal of reducing life-altering crashes by 20% by 2030. The plan is based on a Safe System Approach, which looks at all factors affecting safety and emphasizes our shared responsibility for improving safety on roadways.

With pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities also increasing at a high rate, ADOT is in addition developing Arizona’s first Active Transportation Safety Action Plan (ATSAP), which will recommend location-specific projects to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists where they interact with the state highway system.

Under the completed SHSP, all highway safety programs in the state can leverage resources and work together to address transportation safety issues.

Public Meetings and Input

The public can provide comments through May 17 in the following ways:

• Attend a public meeting
• Complete an online survey at: adotsafetyplan.com 
• Email: [email protected] 
• Call the bilingual phone line at: 1-855-712-8530
• Mail ADOT at: ADOT SHSP & ATSAP, 1655 W. Jackson, MD 126F, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Arizona Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment

The Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment (VRUSA) is a statewide initiative to improve safety for Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) in Arizona. The assessment evaluates historical crashes involving VRUs, VRU activity levels, locations of underserved populations, and stakeholder consultation to develop strategies and programs to improve VRU safety in Arizona. The VRUSA informs both the SHSP and the ATSAP.

2019 Arizona Strategic Highway Safety Plan

In fall 2018, Arizona’s safety leaders began the process to update the SHSP, last completed in 2014, per the five-year requirement. This effort resulted in the current 2019 Strategic Traffic Safety Plan (STSP). The STSP was developed in consultation with a broad array of transportation safety stakeholders throughout the state representing each of the 4 E’s of safety: Engineering, Education, Enforcement and Emergency Medical Services, in addition to analysis and documentation of the statewide database of crash records and other data. The STSP is a tool to direct transportation project investment decisions and ensure best safety practices are adopted to achieve a meaningful reduction in transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries on all public roadways.