2018 Maryland Highway Safety Summit
The Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration's Highway Safety Office is hosting the 2018 Maryland Highway Safety Summit on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute to focus on the Maryland Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Emphasis Area Action Plans. Traffic safety advocates and officials throughout the state are welcome to attend.
The Maryland SHSP is a statewide, coordinated, traffic safety plan that provides the framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. The plan establishes overall statewide fatality and serious injury goals, and sets strategies within six key emphasis areas including: Aggressive Driving Prevention; Distracted Driving Prevention; Highway Infrastructure, Impaired Driving Prevention, Occupant Protection, Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety. The SHSP covers 2016 through 2020, and is designed to move Maryland toward its goal of cutting roadway fatalities in half by 2030 and eventually ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Maryland roadways.
Achieving these goals will require a sustained and steadfast commitment from State, local agencies, and key safety partners. The 2018 Summit will focus on Action Plans within each emphasis area of the SHSP. The success of the emphasis area Action Plans heavily depends upon partnerships with the “Four Es of Safety” (Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Medical Services) and local commitment to the overall SHSP. This year's summit includes a press event announcing the total number of highway fatalities in Maryland in 2017 along with Emphasis Area Team presentations and discussions to "Drive Maryland Toward Zero Deaths.".
The Maryland SHSP is a statewide, coordinated, traffic safety plan that provides the framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. The plan establishes overall statewide fatality and serious injury goals, and sets strategies within six key emphasis areas including: Aggressive Driving Prevention; Distracted Driving Prevention; Highway Infrastructure, Impaired Driving Prevention, Occupant Protection, Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety. The SHSP covers 2016 through 2020, and is designed to move Maryland toward its goal of cutting roadway fatalities in half by 2030 and eventually ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Maryland roadways.
Achieving these goals will require a sustained and steadfast commitment from State, local agencies, and key safety partners. The 2018 Summit will focus on Action Plans within each emphasis area of the SHSP. The success of the emphasis area Action Plans heavily depends upon partnerships with the “Four Es of Safety” (Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Medical Services) and local commitment to the overall SHSP. This year's summit includes a press event announcing the total number of highway fatalities in Maryland in 2017 along with Emphasis Area Team presentations and discussions to "Drive Maryland Toward Zero Deaths.".
