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Zero Fatalities

Safety Performance Measures

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Weights assigned to Performance Measures

Weights were determined through the analytic hierarchy process using a pair-wise exercise. This process and associated exercise was facilitated through the DecisionLens platform and included the Performance Management Committee (EM3 Division Managers) and Senior Leadership. The Transportation Commission also participated in this exercise to validate the weighting. Weighting is shown as percentages below the charts.

Historical Safety Index

Safety Index

Fatality Rate (per 100M VMT)

Billion VMT Statewide

Vulnerable Users

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Safe Routes

Zero Fatalities a goal we cal all live with

Zero Fatalities Partnership Betweeen Agencies

Vulnerable Users

One group of roadway users we are focusing on is Vulnerable Users, Vulnerable users include pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. Individuals who use the transportation system without being enclosed in a vehicle.

Vulnerable User Fatalities per 100 million VMT

Motorcycle Fatalities per 100 million VMT

Pedestrian Fatalities per 100 million VMT

Bicyclist Fatalities per 100 million VMT

We are working to decrease the number of Vulnerable User Crashes by working with our Zero Fatalities Outreach and Safe Routes Utah programs as well as improving pedestrian facilities and introducing motorcycle and bicycle friendly elements along our highways.

Safe Routes

Safe Routes Utah

The goal of Safe Routes Utah is to help children get to and from school safely while motivating them to experience the benefits of walking or biking to school.

Walk & Roll

K-8 students participate in a monthly challenge to “Walk & Roll” where they receive prizes for tracking the days they walked or rode bikes or scooters to school safely. Parents who encourage their kids to walk or bike are also entered into a separate drawing to incentivize their kids to participate.

Beat the Street Assemblies

Students learn how to walk and bike to school safely through an entertaining and interactive presentation covering street lights, signs and helmet safety. Students check their learning after the assembly with an online quiz.

Partnerships

Zero Fatalities Partnership Betweeen Agencies

The Zero Fatalities campaign, now in its fifteenth year, is moving from awareness to behavioral changes.

THE ROAD TO

ZERO FATALITIES

To reach our ultimate goal, it is important to learn about the five safe driving behaviors and what we all can do to be a better driver.

Icons of Drive Alert, Drive Focused, Drive Calm, Drive Sober, and Drive Buckled

We have partnered with a number of agencies and organizations to enhance the reach of the Zero fatalities message. Here are just a few.

Fatalities from vulnerable user groups are not acceptable. UDOT has deployed a number of communication and safety efforts to increase awareness and drive down accidents.

Safety Performance Measures

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Key Points

Total number of motor vehicles involved fatalities in the state of Utah as reported through law enforcement agencies throughout the state. This data is for all publicly accessible routes. This measure provides a relative indication of progress in reaching our overall goal of Zero Fatalities. The addition of Fatalities per VMT will provide a more complete picture of the factors affecting our fatality numbers each year. The VMT rate will necessarily have some data lag as VMT estimates are produced after the close of each month.

Traffic Fatalities

Total number of motor vehicle involved fatalities in the state of Utah. This data is for all publicly accessible routes.

Target: Reduce fatality number by 2.5 percent below the three-year average.

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Key Points

Rates are a metric used to compare your company's safety performance against a national or state average. This comparison is a safety benchmark to gauge performance with other companies/organizations in the same business group.

UDOT's fatality rate has continued to be ZERO since 2013.

Internal Fatalities

The number of UDOT employee deaths.

Target: Achieve zero employee fatalities.

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Key Points

Total number of motor vehicle involved suspected serious injuries occurring in the state of Utah. The number of life altering injuries, such as severe laceration, broken or distorted limb, and crush injuries. Suspected serious injuries for the current year are shown as soon as we get the data from law enforcement agencies, but in general we indicate a three month lag to account for the variation in response times from various law enforcement agencies. This data is for all publicly accessible routes.

Suspected Serious Traffic Injuries

Total number of motor vehicle involved suspected serious injuries occurring in the state of Utah. Suspected serious injuries for current year are shown with a one month lag. This data is for all publicly accessible routes.

Target: Reduce by 2.5 percent below the three year average.

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Key Points

The calculated rate is defined as the number of work-related injuries per 100 full-time workers during a one-year period. For example, if an organization's injury rate is 2.0, and the organization has 1700 employees the number of employees that are at risk of experiencing a work related injury/illness is (17*2) or 34 in a one year period. The lower the rate the fewer employees that are at risk, based on injury history.

UDOT continues to experience a reduction in the injury rate year to year. From calendar year 2016 to year end 2020 UDOT had a (32%) reduction. UDOT continues to be focused on continuous improvement efforts as we move towards our goal of ZERO.

Internal Injury Rate

The number of injuries per 200,000 working hours.

Target is set 10% below prior year injury rate.

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Key Points

Total number of reported motor vehicle crashes in the state of Utah. The number of crashes for the current year are shown as soon as we get the data from law enforcement agencies, but in general we indicate a three month lag to account for the variation in response times from various law enforcement agencies. This data is for all publicly accessible routes.

Traffic Crashes

Total number of reported motor vehicle involved crashes in the state of Utah. Crashes for current year are shown with a one month lag. This data is for all publicly accessible routes.

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Key Points

The calculated rate is defined as the number of equipment damage per 100 full-time workers during a one-year period. For example, if an organization's equipment rate is 2.0, and the organization has 1700 employees the number of employees that are at risk of being involved in accident involving equipment/vehicles is (17*2) or 34 in a one year period. The lower the rate the fewer employees that are at risk. This metric is important to measure and take action on, because there is a high probability that injury can occur when equipment is involved.

Equipment damage continues to be an area that UDOT struggles to improve in. Over the past 2.5 years the rate has slightly increased.

Equipment Damage Rate

The number of incidents of equipment damage per 200,000 working hours.

Target: Achieve a rate of 6.85 incidents per 200,000 working hours.