Alaska continues on an important journey.

Alaska has engaged in a long but important trek towards a destination that is worth the trip: a safer transportation system with far fewer highway related fatalities and serious injuries.  The vehicle used in this journey is the Strategic Traffic Safety Plan, or STSP, a document that details the steps to reduce Alaska’s most serious transportation safety problems.

The STSP (formerly known as the Strategic Highway Safety Plan or SHSP) is a statewide, comprehensive, and data driven effort that addresses the 4Es of safety: Engineering, Education, Enforcement, and Emergency Response.  The plan includes strategic and performance based goals derived from the identification and analysis of our State’s unique highway safety problems along with appropriate countermeasures to solve these problems.  A key ingredient in this development process is input from public and private stakeholders.

Our efforts over the past four years have been productive – the number of fatalities have declined each year since the plan was introduced in 2007.   However, we cannot rest on our laurels.  As with any good plan, the STSP requires updating to meet today’s challenges.  The STSP Leadership Group, comprised of members from various state and local government agencies and private sector organizations, remains as a key driving force in the implementation of the plan. These members, together with members of a Working Group, will continue to navigate the road toward the destination of a safer Alaska.

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Caption: Fairbanks International Airport Canine Officer Daisy on the look out.
Credit: photo by Beverly Moore, Alaska DOT&PF

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