Arizona Tribal Transportation Safety

ADOT’s Mission, Vision and Values is to provide highway infrastructure and transportation services, to safely connect people and empower our economy and to be easy to work with, collaborative, and results focused. Driving Safety Home is ADOT’s campaign to reduce the number of people seriously injured and killed in transportation incidents across Arizona. It's a multiyear initiative that aims to motivate positive changes in behavior through increased awareness about transportation safety.

The purpose of the webpage is to increase and promote transportation safety and personal injury prevention on Tribal lands by informing participants of current Federal, State and Tribal program and project activities as well as opportunities that support implementation of the Arizona Strategic Traffic Safety Plan, Tribal transportation safety plans and Tribal injury prevention plans. 

We encourage you to be leaders and role models for safe behavior in your communities when using any mode of transportation.

EVENTS AND RESOURCES 

2023 ARIZONA TRIBAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND INJURY PREVENTION SUMMIT

The Arizona Department of Transportation in partnership with the Arizona Department of Health Services held the first ever Arizona Tribal Transportation Safety and Injury Prevention Summit  August 9-10, 2023. Additional partnering agencies included the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the U.S. Indian Health Service, the U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Highways Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. and M.G. Tech-Writing.

The purpose of the summit is to:

  1. Improve relationships between Tribes and Arizona state government
  2. Advertise programs available through ADOT, ADHS and other departments
  3. Highlight need for data collection and analysis
  4. Showcase success stories for Tribal projects partnered with the State of Arizona

The summit included two concurrent focus area tracks. 

  • Focus Area I covered traffic safety including, data collection, road safety assessments (RSA), highway safety improvement program (HSIP), project development and project delivery.  
  • Focus Area II covered traffic injury prevention, mitigation or response which  included several sessions on traffic safety and traffic injury prevention.  

Apart from the focus areas, each day offered opportunities for networking with Tribal members during working lunches and break events with keynote addresses.   All sessions and keynote addresses focused on traffic safety, emergency response,  traffic safety education or traffic related planning in Tribal Nations.  

Summit Presentation Materials

ADHS and FHWA Presentations

Crash, Roadway, & Traffic Count Data

Public Health Emergency Management & Traffic Safety

Safety Analysis & Strategy Identification

Safety Planning

Stop the Bleed Training

Traffic Safety Implementation

Transportation Funding

Vulnerable Road User Prevention Strategies

 

RESOURCES

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