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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) has selected Ãë²¥?to lead the?data?analysis?contract?of?its??The?project?involves the development of?a regional plan to unify traffic safety strategies for the CRTPO planning area, which includes?Mecklenburg, Iredell, and Union counties?in North Carolina.?The?overall?project is funded by the?CRTPO¡¯s award from the?, a competitive grant program?sponsored by the U.S.?Department of Transportation?(USDOT)?aimed at preventing fatalities and serious injuries on America¡¯s roadways.?

SS4A funding has become a?USDOT priority as?the overall number of?roadway?fatalities has been trending upward?in recent years, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.?In addition to vehicle operators, road safety solutions funded by the?SS4A program?consider?pedestrians and cyclists,?who are?often at?greatest?risk.?

¡°This is a vital safety project aimed at saving lives and enacting meaningful change,¡± said Matthew Maher, principal, traffic?engineering?and transportation planning at Ãë²¥. ¡°We welcome the opportunity to work with both the CRTPO,?member?jurisdictions, and the?CRTPO planning area?as we strive to make their roadways safer for years to come.¡±?

The?largest SS4A-funded transportation planning?initiative in?North Carolina
The?CRTPO, in partnership with Ãë²¥,?is developing the?first?safety action plan?initiative of its kind in the?Charlotte urban area, funded by the largest SS4A planning grant award in the state. This process?will adopt the USDOT¡¯s??to?identify?and recommend improvements to serious crash and high-risk locations on the region¡¯s roadway network.?Upon its completion, the study will produce regional safety tools, safety funding priorities, and policy recommendations,?which are?critical to prioritizing?limited?state?and local?resources?in roadway projects to reduce?serious injury?and fatality crash rates.

As the project?lead,?Ãë²¥ will integrate innovative technologies, including AI-powered crash data analysis?through language learning models?and near-miss detection?through video detection of objects and movement rates, alongside traditional road safety?audits?and robust public engagement. This multilayered?methodology?provides a more complete picture of safety risks and solutions, moving beyond standard high-injury network analysis.?

¡°We look forward to partnering with Ãë²¥ to develop a high-caliber, first-of-its-kind plan for our rapidly growing region to reduce and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on and along our region¡¯s roadways,¡± said Will Snyder, CRPTO project manager.?¡°We are eager to?bring?safer streets to?the?counties,?jurisdictions?and communities?across the CRTPO planning area.¡±

The project?involves the development of?17 individual safety action plans for member communities without one, and?implementation?support for 7 existing Vision Zero communities across the CRTPO three-county planning area.?The?project¡¯s?scale enables smaller?jurisdictions?to?benefit?from data and insights that would otherwise be inaccessible, fostering?a shared traffic safety coalition and culture regardless of where and how people travel.

The?future of?road?safety?technology
Core to the project is the?Integrated CRTPO Street Safety Dashboard, which will serve?as CRTPO¡¯s central

command center for safety intelligence.?The?dashboard will allow the public,?local transportation staff,?and the CRTPO to?visualize?crash data, infrastructure conditions, behavioral risks, and project progress in one cohesive interface. Users will be able to explore the network dynamically, filter by?jurisdiction?or?travel?mode, and drill down from regional trends to individual intersections.?The dashboard will also track the implementation and impact of safety improvements over time, linking interventions to measurable?outcomes,?or improved compliance.?Additionally, through the implementation of AI and machine learning, the dashboard will process thousands of crash records and video analytics to timestamp near-miss incidents at intersections.?

Stantec?has a long history of supporting road safety initiatives across the US. The firm?is?currently?working with the Capital Region Transportation Council in?partnership with the?New?York?State?Department of Transportation?in New York?to develop a Vision Zero Action Plan,?which is?aimed at reducing?fatal and?serious injury?crashes along?the state¡¯s?busiest roads?and highways.?The?firm?is also leading road safety action plans?in?Meadowlands, New Jersey,?and in Lee County, Florida¡ªboth projects aimed at improving mobility and safety in highly congested regions.?

Learn more about?Safety Action?Planning & Implementation?at Ãë²¥.?

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