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FHWA - Vital Few Strategies

FHWA units will proactively assert leadership with transportation stakeholders to establish, enhance, and nurture collaborative local partnerships that champion implementation of strategies to mitigate the impacts of congestion.

Vital Few Strategies



  • Increase the quality of strategic safety programs at State, MPO, and local levels; including the degree to which safety consciousness is a part of planning, project development, and operations.
  • Support NHTSA in efforts to raise seat belt use to 90 percent nationwide by 2008.
  • Enhance the ability of drivers to remain on the roadway by assuring greater visibility and providing effective warning systems, such as rumble strips.
  • Implement Statewide programs which reduce the consequences of roadway departure through removal or shielding of hazardous roadside conditions.
  • Conduct comprehensive intersection analysis program to determine safety problems and opportunities, and implement cost-effective countermeasures.
  • Foster comprehensive integrated pedestrian safety programs targeting major pedestrian crash concerns.