Emphasis Areas
What are the New Jersey 2025 Strategic Highway Safety Plan Emphasis Areas?
Emphasis Areas are specific categories of road safety concerns that are identified as priorities to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
To align with the Safe System Approach, the Emphasis Areas for the New Jersey 2025 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (NJ 2025 SHSP) are the five elements that make up the core of the Approach. Each Emphasis Areas have goals, strategies, and actions that will guide the implementation of the NJ 2025 SHSP.
Safer Roads and Safer Speeds
Design roadway environments to mitigate human mistakes and account for injury tolerances, to encourage safer behaviors, and to facilitate safe travel for the most vulnerable users. Promote safer speeds in all roadway environments through thoughtful and context-appropriate roadway design, appropriate speed-limit setting, and other infrastructure related improvements.
Safer People and Safer Speeds
Encourage safe, responsible driving and behavior by people who use our roads and create conditions that prioritize their ability to reach their destination unharmed. Promote safer speeds in all roadway environments through a combination of behavior related improvements such as targeted education, outreach campaigns, and enforcement.
Safer Vehicles
Expand the availability of vehicle systems and features that help to prevent crashes and minimize the impact of crashes on both occupants and non-occupants.
Post-Crash Care
Enhance the survivability of crashes through expedient access to emergency medical care, while creating a safe working environment for vital first responders and preventing secondary crashes through robust traffic incident management practices.