Traffic Safety Roundup - November 21, 2015

Traffic Safety Roundup

A compilation of traffic safety e-news, resources, tools and links

brought to you by Louisiana Center for Transportation Safety

November 21, 2015

Dear Safety Partner,

The Louisiana Center for Transportation Safety (LCTS), also known as the Safety Center , shares this compilation of valuable information and e-news that you might find useful in enhancing your transportation safety initiatives that help save lives!

Highlights in this Issue

LRSP Changes and Improvements

Be A Safety Champion

Noteworthy Practices Across the Nation

Grant Opportunities

Click It Or Ticket this Thankskgiving

NETS receives Global Road Safety Award

Featured Innovation: Regional Models of Cooperation

What's Coming Up?

Calendars and Resources

Local Road Safety Program Updates

Louisiana's Local Road Safety Program now has a new webpage

The Louisiana Center for Transportation Safety (LCTS) now facilitates project submittal and technical review of project applications to the Local Road Safety Program (LRSP). The program has a new landing webpage: www.ltrc.lsu.edu/lcts/lcts_lrsp.html

The LCTS is now accepting project applications for the 4th Quarter of 2015. Cutoff date is on December 31, 2015. Send your applications to Rudynah Capone, LA Center for Transportation Safety located at LTRC Building, 4101 Gourrier Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

LRSP Changes and Improvements

Changes to the LRSP were announced at the recently held Local Road Safety Peer Exchange. These changes were made official in a form of a memorandum. Revised LRSP Guidelines and Policies will be posted soon. Read memo on the changes.

Make a Difference! Be a Traffic Safety Champion
yourself.

To learn how, contact the Regional Safety Coalition Coordinator in your area.

Across the Nation: Noteworthy Practices

Illinois Law Enforcement Partnership with Engineering

New Jersey MPO Participation in SHSP

Michigan Strategic Highway Safety Plan and Highway Safety Improvement Program Alignment

Check out Destination Zero Deaths Calendar

to view the schedule of statewide and regional coalition meetings.

Grant Opportunities

Local Road Safety Program

Calling all Parishes and municipalities in Louisiana! Please turn in your project applications for local road safety improvements by December 31, 2015 to be considered for the 4th Quarter Project Selection. Read more.

Teen Driver Safety Grants Across the Nation

Also, here's a great list of scholarships and grants that focus on young driver safety listed through www.trafficsafetystore.com. In the end, it's all about saving lives. Read more.

Hot Off The Press

LHSC, law enforcement officials encourage motorists to Click It Or Ticket for safe travel over Thanksgiving holiday

With Thanksgiving just around the corner and millions of Americans expected to travel to visit family and friends, highway safety officials from LA Highway Safety Commission (LHSC) and law enforcement officers are ramping up enforcement from November 22 to 29, with a reminder to Click It or Ticket. Read more.

Check out this PSA on Click it Or Ticket by USDOT NHTSA

Across the Globe

NETS presented with Royal Award for Contributions to Global Road Safety

During a special ceremony on November 17, preceding the 2nd Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety in Brasilia, HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO presented his prestigious international road safety award to the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), a global NGO. Read more.

NETS' Comprehensive Guide to Road Safety ™ Now Available in 21 Languages

Featured Innovation of the Month:

Regional Models of Cooperation

To implement the Strategic Highway Safety Plan at the local level takes a lot of collaboration between the state, the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Regional Safety Coalitions and local public entities. This month, we're featuring FHWA's Every Day Counts-3 effort called Regional Models of Cooperation which is very much applicable to implement SHSP. This model provides a framework and process for entities to develop multi-jurisdictional transportation plans, including the Regional SHSPs.

What's Coming Up?

Nov. 28 - Dec. 15, Pre-Holiday Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving Campaign

The Louisiana Center for Transportation Safety encourages our safety partners to gear up for the pre-holiday campaign Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving. NHTSA has several campaign tools you can use.

Dec. 8 , Webinar on "The Benefits of Using Crash Modification Factors to Predict and Prioritize"

Join transportation engineers, designers and planners from across the country to learn how to use the most recent updates to the FHWA's Crash Modification Factors (CMFs) Clearinghouse, how to use CMFs in crash prediction models, and how two states are using CMFs in their project planning. Register here.

Dec. 15 , Webinar on "Understanding Organizational Culture and Its Impact on Safety Culture"

Highway safety partners across the country are invited to this free webinar hosted by the National Center for Rural Road Safety Register here.

Dec. 16, 2015 to Jan. 1, 2016 Holiday Season's Drive Sober of Get Pulled Over Campaign

NHTSA now has marketing tools available to support all highway safety stakeholders all over the U.S. in promoting Drive Sober campaign around Christmas and New Year's holidays. Click here.

Jan. 10-14, 2016, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.

This information-packed conference will cover all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.