The purpose of Indiana‘s SHSP is to serve as a tool to aid in the effort to comprehensively identify, analyse, and prioritise countermeasures for addressing the greatest threats to highway safety. It is a living document used by engineering, law enforcement, public education, and emergency medical responder leadership in allocating resources to prevent or reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes as well as to improve the medical outcomes of those injured. It encourages government agencies and safety advocates to work across jurisdictional boundaries to address crash problems regardless of where they occur. The Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is not a standard, policy, or legal document that makes or mandates traffic safety decisions. The SHSP informs decision-makers by providing data related to the safety of the highway system as measured by crash occurrence and outcome. Decision makers can then consider safety issues explicitly along with all other factors that influence highway system decision-making. Shared duty and partnerships are important elements in reducing human suffering and economic loss from traffic crashes in Indiana. Better communication, coordination, and cooperation between state, regional and local agencies as well as with safety advocates and organizations, are vital to successful implementation and deployment of highway safety improvement strategies. (Author/publisher)
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