Highway Safety Planning Process

The HSP contains the targets, strategies, performance measures and objectives Texas sets for each fiscal year.
The TRF-BTS Program Planner coordinates the strategic planning process for the Texas Behavioral Traffic Safety Program. This involves the development of an informal five-year strategic plan, which provides the general mission of the Traffic Safety Program and is created through a process that includes input from TRF-BTS project managers and other program partners.
Strategic Planning –
The strategic planning process re-evaluates the program areas, goals, and strategies and reviews the traffic safety program mission statement.
As an outgrowth of the strategic planning process:
  • Texas developed specific goals, strategies, and performance measures for the Texas Behavioral Traffic Safety Program.
  • Objectives were established for all performance measures.
  • TRF-BTS seeks public comments by posting a Request for Comments in the
    Texas Register
     and sending e-mail notifications to all registered users of eGrants.
The Texas HSP planning process includes a brief description of the data sources and processes used by the State to:
  • Identify highway safety problems.
  • Describe highway safety performance measures and define performance targets.
  • Develop and select evidence-based countermeasure strategies and projects to address problems and achieve performance targets.
  • Identify the participants in the processes (e.g., highway safety committees, program stakeholders, community and constituent groups).
  • Discuss the strategies for project selection (e.g., constituent outreach, public meetings, solicitation of proposals), and list the information and data sources consulted.
  • Describe the efforts to coordinate (and the outcomes from the coordination of) the HSP, data collection, and information systems with the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) as defined in 23 U.S.C. §148(a).