The National Award for Innovative Practice in Metropolitan Transportation Planning by the Association of Metropolitan Planning Associations (AMPO) is presented to the Cheyenne MPO for their Transportation Safety Management Plan. The MPO has taken a leadership role as one of the first MPOs in the country to develop a regional transportation safety plan. The mission of this Plan is to eliminate preventable traffic-related deaths and injuries and the goal is to reduce fatal and injury crashes by 10 percent by 2020. To achieve this, the Cheyenne region needs to eliminate an average of 3.5 fatal and injury crashes every year for the next 13 years. A key step in the development of this plan was a Transportation Safety Summit, convened by the MPO earlier this year, where participants reviewed current safety strategies, identified nationally proven strategies for consideration, and developed new safety approaches. As a result of this Plan, the MPO is seeking grants to implement three strategies of the Plan. The first is for a summit on safety belt enforcement, the second is for prioritization of hazardous locations and road safety audits, and the third is for saturation patrols to reduce DUI crashes.
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