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Rural Safety Innovation Program


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The Rural Safety Innovation Program (RSIP) is a one-time opportunity and a subset of the Federal Highway Administration's Rural Safety Initiative which deals with infrastructure and smart solutions for improving rural safety.

The primary objectives of the Rural Safety Innovation Program are to:

  • Improve safety on local and rural roads using innovative approaches in which rural communities develop and design local solutions to their roadway safety problems,
  • Provide best practices and lessons learned on innovative infrastructure safety technologies to assist local and rural road owners and operators in the development and implementation of infrastructure-based rural safety countermeasures that compliment behavioral safety efforts,
  • Promote national awareness and interest in the local and rural safety issues and,
  • Promote the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies to improve safety on local and rural roads.

In August 2008, 21 projects in 14 states, 3 counties and 2 parishes were awarded a total of $14.7 million. This section of the Rural Highway Safety Clearinghouse is designed to provide information about each of these projects, and to share their resulting good practices with the rural road safety community.

RSIP Projects

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Illinois

Iowa

Kansas

Louisiana

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

South Carolina

Tennessee

Washington

Wisconsin

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