DP-92 is administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in coordination with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This initiative assisted State agencies and local jurisdictions (city and county) to use and adopt Community/Corridor Traffic Safety Program (C/CTSP) concepts of their own design. It supported State or local efforts with limited financial grants and technical assistance.

The C/CTSP is a comprehensive approach that addresses highway safety problems involving engineering, enforcement, and public awareness to reduce accidents and injuries. In this respect, FHWA's Office of Motor Carriers is called upon to help build on the comprehensive approach where commercial motor vehicles are involved. Similarly, local units of emergency medical service (EMS) may contribute resources and expertise.

NHTSA-sponsored Community Traffic Safety Programs (CTSPs) are included as major contributors to the C/CTSP in that they bring public or private opinion and participation to an action plan to solve the community's safety problems. CTSPs are a vital part of C/CTSP projects, which in most instances are long-term umbrella programs that target human (driver) behavior and focus on education and law enforcement initiatives.

The NHTSA and FHWA collaborate in the C/CTSP, and there normally are overlapping responsibilities among Federal Agencies, the State, and local jurisdictions. For example, management roles, funding sources, and technical expertise often overlap. C/CTSP has three advantages over the more traditional approach to treating high accident locations:

A comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to solving safety problems that looks not only at highway problems but also at driver and vehicle.

A mechanism to improve the use of existing resources through better communication and cooperation and combining the "4Es"-engineering, education, enforcement, and EMS.

The ability to look at long sections of highways, or multiple local jurisdictions (cities/counties), rather than at single highway "spot" locations or a single local jurisdiction.

The C/CTSP was developed from CTSPs and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT's) "Corridor Safety Program" concepts, as follows.

1. Identify highway safety problem areas within boundaries of geographical areas (highway corridors, counties, and cities).
2. Form a multidisciplinary group to develop a comprehensive action plan to focus on the identified problems.
3. Secure resources to implement the plan.
4. Manage the process through all phases until program objectives are accomplished.
5. Evaluate the project.

Project initiatives typically are low-cost, have the support of community leaders, and have community involvement in all project phases of planning, implementation, management, and evaluation.

This project has been completed.
As a result of this Demonstration Project, 13 States signed agreements to use DP-92 funds to show the effectiveness of the C/CTSP. In addition, a project has been initiated with the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) in cooperation with the Native American Injury Prevention Coalition.

CTSPs have more than 400 programs throughout the country and will participate to extend the C/CTSP into their communities. Currently, many States have adopted or are at various stages of implementing a C/CTSP.

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