Safety Performance Management

The Safety Performance Management regulations supports the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and requires State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to establish Safety targets for 5 performance measures.

1. Number of fatalities
2. Rate of fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
3. Number of serious injuries
4. Rate of serious injuries per 100 million VMT
5. Number of non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious injuries

When do MPOs establish Safety Targets?

When establishing Safety targets MPOs may support the state’s targets, or establish their own quantifiable target for the metropolitan planning area. States establish Safety targets and report them for the upcoming calendar year in their HSIP Annual Report that is due August 31 each year. MPOs must establish Safety targets within 180 days of the State establishing and reporting its Annual HSIP Report, no later than February 27 of each year.

How are Safety Targets reported?

States report their Safety targets to the Federal Highway Administration annually in their HSIP report. The Jackson MPO reports its Safety targets annually to the MS Department of Transportation (MDOT).

Safety Target calculations

• 5-year rolling average: Each target is based on a 5-year rolling average
• Roads addressed: Safety targets cover all public roadways within the metropolitan planning area boundary regardless of ownership or functional classification, just as State Safety targets cover all public roads in the State.
• Data sources: A combination of national data sources and a State maintained crash dataset is used to establish Safety targets including Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and MDOT’s Safety Analysis Management System (SAMS)

Baseline Data 2016-2020

Fatalities
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	5-yr Average
Mississippi	687	685	663	643	756	686.8
Jackson MPO	76	72	64	73	91	75.2

Fatality Rate per 100 Million VMT
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	5-yr Average
Mississippi	1.69	1.676	1.628	1.565	1.91	1.694
Jackson MPO	1.278	1.339	1.196	1.338	1.774	1.385

Serious Injuries
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	5-yr Average
Mississippi	627	540	546	1,618	3,630	1,452.60
Jackson MPO	93	69	102	307	659	246

Serious Injury Rate per 100 Million VMT
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	5-yr Average
Mississippi	1.543	1.321	1.34	3.94	9.18	3.612
Jackson MPO	1.564	1.284	1.905	5.627	12.849	4.646

Non-Motorized Fatalities and Serious Injuries
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	5-yr Average
Mississippi	124	138	143	187	325	185.4
Jackson MPO	20	17	18	17	40*	22.4*

2018 – 2022 Safety Targets Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and MS Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) Safety Analysis Management System (SAMS)

On February 9, 2022 the Jackson MPO Metropolitan Planning Policy Committee voted to support the State of Mississippi’s efforts to achieve the 2022 Safety Performance Targets outlined in the MS Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report.

2018 – 2022 Mississippi Safety Targets
Measure	Target
Number of Fatalities	723
Rate of Fatalities per 100 Million VMT	1.810
Number of Serious Injuries	2,905
Rate of Serious Injuries per 100 Million VMT	7.300
Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Serious Injuries	349.6