Safety
Michigan Adopts the Safe System Approach in the Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Summary
In the past, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) used a more traditional approach to transportation safety – placing responsibility for traffic safety on individuals and focusing on improving human behavior, controlling speeding through education and enforcement, and reacting based on crash history. However, like most States, fatal and serious injury crashes weren’t coming down fast enough. So, when it was time to update their Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), MDOT pushed for the inclusion of the Safe System Approach (SSA).
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