Safety Blueprint
Safety Blueprint
CAMPO's Regional Transportation Safety Action Plan
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) is developing a comprehensive regional multimodal safety action plan - a Blueprint for Safety - in partnership with NCDOT. The Blueprint for Safety is underway and will be finalized by June 2025. Engagement and coordination with stakeholders and members of the community will occur throughout the planning process.
PUBLIC NOTICE:
CAMPO is currently considering approval of the region-wide Proposed Blueprint for Safety. The document is available for public review and comment until June 17, 2025. The CAMPO Executive Board will consider approval at their meeting on June 18, 2025.
Comments may also be submitted via:
Email: campocomments@publicinput.com
Phone: 855-925-2801 (code: 10878)
Text: keyword "campocomments" to 73224
U.S. Mail: CAMPO Public Comments, 1 Fenton Main Street, Suite 201, Cary, NC 27511
Blueprint for Safety
The Blueprint for Safety was developed to provide strategies and actions to improve roadway transportation safety in the CAMPO region. Deaths and serious injuries on CAMPO’s roadways are unacceptable – the Blueprint for Safety Plan focused on identifying areas for improvement, stakeholder and public engagement strategies, and followed the Safe System Approach. To identify areas for improvement, CAMPO used crash data from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to evaluate the biggest risks and pinpoint the areas where the most injuries occur, otherwise known as a High Injury Network (HIN). After identifying areas to improve upon, safety enhancements and countermeasures have been recommended for implementation. The Plan also identifes areas that are high risk for serious injury or fatal crashes, taking a more proactive approach in addition to reviewing crash history.
Process
CAMPO focused on four steps to develop the Blueprint. The first step established partners and stakeholders who would participate in the process. Blueprint partners included members of local government, roadway safety partners, community organizations, and residents. They provided input on trends and shared their safety concerns. CAMPO then analyzed safety data and stakeholder inputs. The data identified the areas and populations most at risk of fatal and serious injury crashes and spatially located the areas most in need of preventative safety projects and strategies within the High Injury Network (HIN). The Blueprint also reviewed local and regional plans and policies to understand decision-making processes regarding roadway safety projects. Once the existing safety conditions were analyzed, the Blueprint determined safety problems and emphasis areas and identified strategies and projects. The emphasis areas are a subset of crash types that are overrepresented in the CAMPO region. For example, 47% of fatalities and serious injuries in the CAMPO region between 2016-2023 were due to drivers departing their lane. The emphasis areas are listed in order, noting their share of fatal and serious injury crashes in the region. While they are listed in order, all are a critical focus for the region to prevent fatal and serious injury crashes. All of the Blueprint’s Emphasis Areas complement the emphasis areas included in the 2024 North Carolina SHSP, and the percent share of the CAMPO region’s fatal and serious injury (KA) crashes associated with the crash type are listed in parentheses in the following:
CAMPO and NCDOT, by creating this Plan, accomplished the fifth step in the process by implementing the plan. The Blueprint outlines a Crash Reduction Framework with strategies and actions, project examples, and potential policies to reduce fatalities and serious injuries across the region. The actions identified in the Blueprint are aligned for potential HSIP funding, federal grants, and other funding sources. Every 4 to 5 years, CAMPO and NCDOT will work together to evaluate and update the Blueprint with a focused review of adopted safety targets and performance measures.
Community Engagement
Throughout the study, CAMPO aimed to receive input from a variety of audiences including groups that work with safety daily like Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel, schools, universities, and law enforcement. Alongside input from agency officials, CAMPO also hosted engagement sessions to discuss safety concerns with the community. A safer CAMPO transportation network benefits everyone in the region.
The first phase of general public engagement for the Blueprint for Safety concluded in early September of 2024. Thank you to everyone who participated.
