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"A Safety Action Plan is a comprehensive roadmap designed to reduce traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries. It is built on detailed crash data analysis, community input, and proven safety strategies, ensuring that decisions are informed and effective. The plan prioritizes projects and policies that address the most pressing roadway risks while providing a strategic framework for funding and implementing targeted safety improvements. Ultimately, its goal is to save lives and enhance mobility for all road users."

Introduction

Safety Action Plans provide communities with a clear, data-driven roadmap to reduce severe traffic collisions and improve roadway safety. Safety Action Plans focus specifically on identifying risk, prioritizing high-injury corridors, and delivering targeted strategies to prevent fatalities and serious injuries. At TJKM, we design Safety Action Plans that not only address today’s challenges but also prepare cities to secure funding, implement quick-build solutions, and measure progress toward safer streets.

Tjkm’s Approach to Safety Action Plans

At TJKM, we believe a Safety Action Plan is more than a compliance document; it’s a strategic blueprint that empowers cities to take measurable steps toward eliminating severe collisions. Our process is comprehensive, collaborative, and funding-oriented, designed to meet Safe Streets for All (SS4A) requirements while aligning with local priorities.

How We Develop Safety Action Plans

Collaborative Foundation

We guide the planning process alongside City staff, stakeholders, and a Safety Task Force. This multidisciplinary collaboration ensures the plan reflects local knowledge, expertise, and community needs.

Understanding the Need

We assess collision history, community concerns, and local goals to establish why a Safety Action Plan is necessary and set the foundation for action.

Data Collection and Crash Analysis

Using city-provided collision data, we analyze patterns over five years, including severity, road-user types, contributing factors, and trends. Custom collision dashboards and ArcGIS tools visualize data and identify high-risk corridors in real time.

High-Injury Network (HIN) Identification

We map corridors and intersections with the highest concentrations of severe collisions,
pinpointing where interventions will have the greatest impact.

Equity Assessment

By overlaying collision data with socio-economic and demographic information, we ensure safety improvements prioritize underserved communities.

Safe System Framework

Guided by Safe System principles, we focus on solutions that reduce collision severity and acknowledge human vulnerability, addressing safe roads, speeds, users, vehicles, and post- collision care.

Community Engagement

Engagement strategies include workshops, focus groups, pop-up events, and online tools. Partnering with the City, we leverage newsletters, e-notifications, social media, and local media to ensure community voices shape recommendations.

Review of Existing Efforts

Our work aligns with ongoing Capital Improvement Projects (CIP), the General Plan, and other mobility initiatives, integrating the Safety Action Plan into broader citywide goals.

Countermeasure Toolbox

We develop a tailored set of proven counter measures, including roadway design, policy, and education programs, targeting the root causes of collisions.

Project Development and Prioritization

Using a transparent framework considering collision history, roadway characteristics, equity, cost-effectiveness, and ease of implementation, we identify systemic projects, citywide initiatives, and location-specific improvements. Conceptual designs and cost estimates provide a clear path from planning to implementation.

Action Plan Across Focus Areas

Recommendations cover:
o Engineering – roadway design, crosswalks, lighting, traffic calming
o Education – public safety campaigns, school programs
o Enforcement – speed management, traffic law compliance strategies
o Policy & Programs – Safe Routes to School, equity initiatives, partnerships

Funding and Implementation Pathways

We identify federal, state, and regional funding sources including SS4A grants, and provide a roadmap for monitoring, evaluation, and accountability, ensuring the plan is both actionable and fundable.

Why TJKM is Trusted for Safety Action Plans

Agencies and communities trust TJKM to deliver Safety Action Plans that are comprehensive, practical, and fundable. Every plan combines rigorous analysis, community collaboration, and a clear path to implementation.

TJKM has developed 70+ Safety Action Plans that meet all Safe Streets for All (SS4A) requirements, helping cities secure federal funding and
advance projects quickly. Our team has assisted agencies in obtaining over $150M in grant funding.
Our custom dashboard allows clients to track collisions in real time, analyze trends, and develop effective countermeasures quickly,
supporting both stakeholder and community presentations.
Using GIS mapping, collision dashboards, and in-depth analysis, we identify high-injury networks and safety trends. Project prioritization considers collision history, equity, safety benefits, cost-effectiveness, and ease of implementation to ensure objective decisions.
We integrate equity analysis at every stage, prioritizing safety improvements for vulnerable and historically underserved populations.
Engagement strategies including workshops, online tools, and on-the-ground events, build trust and ensure community voices shape the plan.
Plans include systemic, citywide, and location-specific projects with cost estimates, conceptual designs, timelines, and funding pathways, making them actionable from day one.

By combining technical expertise, collaborative methods, and a focus on results, TJKM helps cities reduce fatalities and serious injuries while equipping them with the tools to turn plans into real safety improvements.