Enhancing Transportation: connecting TSMO and Safety

Overview

The safe and efficient movement of people and goods is one of the most basic missions of any transportation agency. More and more, transportation agencies are realizing the importance of TSMO to help them achieve their safety-focused mission. TSMO strategies can help reduce injuries and fatalities on our roadways and support The Road to Zero vision.1 Significant overlap exists between strategies that improve operations and those that improve safety, including access management strategies, signal optimization, winter weather operations, traveler information, and traffic incident management. Safety strategies can have positive impacts on operations, and operational strategies can result in improved safety of the transportation network.