FAQs

Action Plans are comprehensive safety plans aimed at reducing and eliminating serious-injury and fatal crashes affecting all roadway users. Action Plans use data analysis to characterize roadway safety problems and strengthen a community’s approach through projects and strategies that address the most significant safety risks.

The Safe System Approach works by building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur. It is a holistic and comprehensive approach that provides a guiding framework to make places safer for people. This is a shift from a conventional safety approach because it focuses on both human mistakes AND human vulnerability and designs a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone. For more information, click here.

The SAPC is tasked with oversight on the development, implementation, and continued monitoring of the Safety Action Plan. It will meet five times to review crash data, identify preliminary High-Risk Locations, and refine the final High-Risk Locations. It will be composed of members from Southeast Oakland County municipalities, medical and emergency services, law enforcement, and SEMCOG.

After the Safety Action Plan is adopted, it will be publicly posted on this website, and the SAPC will review and select priority project plans for funding and implementation. In addition, the SAPC will provide annual public reporting on progress toward reducing roadway fatalities and serious injuries.

The High Injury Network (HIN) analysis identifies road segments where fatal or serious injury (KA) crashes have occurred.

The Proven Safety Countermeasures is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) initiative to promote the implementation of nine countermeasures that have shown promise in improving safety in the areas of intersections, pedestrians, and roadway departure. Systemic Counter Measure Priority Locations are locations where relatively simple improvements have the potential to provide a significant safety benefit. These locations can be at intersections or along roadway segments.

High-Risk Locations will be identified by the participating communities, SAPC, and consultants by reviewing data related to crash frequency, crash rate, crash severity, and other similar criteria.

You can find more information on the United States Department of Transportation website.