Safety Performance Targets - Roadways & Transit

Safety on Roadways

Federal regulations require MPOs and State DOTs to set targets for five safety performance measures for highways.  

The CAMPO Executive Board approved the following Calendar Year 2026 targets for the CAMPO area based on it's newly adopted methodology of reducing crashes by 1% annually in the near-term.  

NCDOT has proposed the following statewide targets for Calendar Year 2025.  The CAMPO Executive Board approved these targets at their meeting on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Public Transportation - (Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans - PTASP)

• Transit Performance Safety Targets - Approved (2025)

In 2018, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Final Rule, which requires operators of public transportation systems that receive federal funds under the FTA's Urbanized Area Formula 5307 Program Grants to develop safety plans that include the processes and procedures to implement Safety Management Systems (SMS). Under the PTASP rule, an operator is required to develop and maintain an Agency Safety Plan, set safety performance targets based on the safety performance measures in the National Safety Plan (NSP) and share with the MPO and State.  In 2021, regional transit agencies GoTriangle, GoRaleigh/City of Raleigh, GoCary/Town of Cary and GoWakeAccess/Wake County each certified and adopted agency safety plans and initial agency performance measures and targets for fatalities, injuries, safety events and system reliability.

In May of 2021, the CAMPO Executive Board adopted initial regional safety measures and targets recommended by CAMPO staff. The providers annually update the plans and goals as needed and per regulations. CAMPO staff meets biannually with transit providers and NCDOT IMD. Per 23 C.F.R. § 450.306, the MPO set initial regional performance targets for each performance measure which are updated every four years to align with the MPO’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) adoption

In April 2024, FTA published the first major update to the PTASP regulation. These updates are part of a continuing effort to improve transit safety performance on federally supported transit systems, and PTASP is the first rule finalized by FTA under Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) requirements to make transit safer for both transit workers and passengers. It incorporates IIJA requirements, such as:

• advancing safety management system (SMS) processes,
• increasing frontline transit worker involvement,
• expanding de-escalation training,
• addressing safety risk, including assaults on transit workers, transit vehicle-pedestrian collisions, and infectious disease exposure, and
• sets risk reduction performance targets using a three-year rolling average of the data submitted by the recipient to the National Transit Database and allocate not less than 0.75 percent of their section 5307 funds to safety related projects.

FTA also published an update to the National Public Transportation Safety Plan that serves as FTA’s primary guidance document to improve transit safety performance. FTA updated the plan to align with Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requirements and to include best practices, tools, technical assistance, voluntary standards and other resources. FTA issued requiring each transit agency subject to FTA's PTASP regulation to conduct a safety risk assessment, identify safety risk mitigations or strategies and provide information to FTA on how it is assessing, mitigating and monitoring the safety risk associated with assaults on transit workers. Each transit agency subject to PTASP regulation must revise its ASP to address the new safety performance measures defined by the National Safety Plan.

Following August and October 2025 coordination meetings with the regional transit partners, CAMPO staff recommend the 2025 regional transit safety targets be updated to include the new safety measures and once again align with agency targets. These targets are the basis for continued partner discussions and collaboration.

In November 2025, the CAMPO Executive Board adopted the updated regional 2025 performance measures and targets and the resolution supporting targets for PTASP Performance Measures and Targets. 

List of PTASP Measures & Targets

• 1a: Major Events
  1b: Major Event Rate
  1.1: Collision Rate (new)
  1.1.1: Pedestrian Collision Rate (new)
  1.1.2: Vehicular Collision Rate (new)

• 2a: Fatalities
  2b: Fatality Rate
  2.1: Transit Worker Fatality Rate (new)

• 3a: Injuries
  3b: Injury Rate
  3.1: Transit Worker Injury Rate (new)

• 4a: Assaults on Transit Workers(new)
  4b: Rate of Assaults on Transit Worker

• 5: System Reliability

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In the summer of 2021, CAMPO staff and the region's transit partners developed the final transit performance safety targets recommendations. The Executive Board approved the final targets in November of 2021 for incorporation into the Metropolitan Transportation Plan and the Transportation Improvement Program.