Safety Performance & Engineering
Strategic Highway Safety Plan
The 2025 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) replaces the 2020 Strategic Transportation Safety Plan (STSP). The SHSP establishes a collaborative and shared vision and mission for transportation in Colorado and identifies key safety needs in Colorado for guiding investment decisions towards strategies and countermeasures with the highest potential to save lives and reduce serious injuries and fatalities on Colorado roadways.
Safety Circuit Rider
In 2005, the Federal Highway Administration identified an opportunity to enhance safety service primarily to serve counties and local agencies. The Colorado Department of Transportation, in partnership with the FHWA and Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), created the Safety Circuit Rider to provide safety related information and training to support Colorado local agencies responsible for roadway safety.
Performance Dashboards
Transportation safety is a top priority for Colorado. CDOT Traffic & Engineering Services developed performance dashboards displaying all reporting public roadway crashes in Colorado to better understand numbers, causes, types, and locations of crashes in order to develop effective countermeasures.
Disclaimer: Colorado traffic crashes as presented in the dashboard are approximate and subject to change. The official number of traffic fatalities in Colorado can be found on NHTSA's Fatal Analysis Reporting Systems (FARS) site.
Access Management Program
Access Management is the coordinated planning, regulation, and design of access between roadways and land development. It encompasses a range of methods that promote the efficient and safe movement of people and goods by reducing conflicts on the roadway system and at its interface with other modes of travel.
