Governor’s Highway Safety Summit: Toward Zero Deaths
Conference Overview
Last year over 250 people were
killed and more than 14,000 people were injured in crashes on Idaho’s
highways. The economic and personal costs of these deaths and injuries,
along with the more than 28,000 collisions that occurred throughout the
state, amount to more than $1.7 billion.
We invite you to join in an effort
to reduce the number of our friends, family, and colleagues who die or
who are injured each year on Idaho’s highways.
On October 19 and 20, 2005, Idaho
held its first “Toward Zero Deaths” workshop in Boise. More than
125 senior local, state, and federal government safety professionals,
law enforcement officers, and private sector experts spent two days
working together to prepare a comprehensive plan to reduce these
terrible losses that occur each year. The partnerships formed and the ideas generated during this workshop will provide the
basis for how we all can work together to improve the safety on our
Idaho’s highways.
Purpose
The purpose of the conference was to:
(1) Bring
together leaders around the state who have an interest in improving
the safety on Idaho’s state’s highways and roads.
(2) Educate
these constituencies on each others interests, perspectives, and
programs, and on the state of the art and practice in highway
safety
(3) Identify
ways that these organizations can work together to more effectively
promote and improve transportation safety in the state.
Conference Outcome
The expected
outcome of the conference is a
framework for a comprehensive statewide safety plan that includes
all agency, private, and public stakeholders in Idaho and to
identify ways in which this plan can be implemented through the
actions of these stakeholders.
Conference Schedule
During the morning of October 19, six keynote
presenters set the stage by identifying key highway safety problems
in Idaho and describing how the development of a statewide safety plan
will help to strategically address these problems through interagency
cooperation and collaboration.
During the afternoon of October 19 and the morning of
October 20, conference participants worked in five parallel workshop
tracks, each track addressing one major statewide safety issue.
Finally, during the afternoon of October 20,
participants reconvened as a group to share what they learned during
the individual workshops and identify the components of a statewide
safety plan.
See Schedule
for more details.
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Conference results
The results from the conference will be posted
as they are ready.
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ITD crash data
What do other State Safety Plans
look like?
How have other states conducted
their State Safety Planning Meetings? Read these agendas:
Connecticut
Minnesota
Nevada
North Dakota-1
North Dakota-2
For
more information on highway safety, check these resources:
Minnesota
Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan
What is "Toward Zero
Deaths"
What's New
in Highway Safety Training
Developing an Idaho
Comprehensive Safety Plan
Safety
Conscious Planning
Comprehensive Highway
Safety Plans - Desirable Attributes
Discussion Framework for
Comprehensive Highway Safety Plans
Ohio Comprehensive
Highway Safety Plan - Agenda
Ohio - Comprehensive
Highway Safety Plan Worksheet
Illinois
Safety Summit
Tennessee Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Example
State Comprehensive Highway Safety Plans - Visions, Missions, and Goals
Michigan
Intersection Safety Plan
Tennessee
Safety Plan - Press Release
Follow these links for additional
information on highway safety:
Minnesota Toward Zero Death Program
Iowa Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau
Minnesota
Department of Transportation - Work Zone Safety
Caltrans'
Safety Program
Idaho
Transportation Department Office of Highway Safety
Federal
Highway Administration - Highway Safety
American
Association of Highway and Transportation Officials - Strategic Highway
Safety Plan
National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
Idaho Future Travel |
