AASHTO Journal - Registration Open for the AASHTO 2024 Safety Summit

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has opened the website for its 2024 Safety Summit and Peer Exchange, to be held October 15-17 in Houston. To register for the 2024 Safety Summit, click here.

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The summit brings together state department of transportation leaders, management, and practitioners – as well as mobility professionals in the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors – to share notable examples of programs, policies, and projects that incorporate safety for all road users throughout the roadway lifecycle and agency activities.

The 2024 event builds off the successful 2023 Safety Summit, held in Kansas City, which featured a roundtable of federal transportation officials along with presentations by state DOTs leaders on topics such as safety tactics and strategy formation, integration of safety more deeply into infrastructure project lifecycles, and how state DOTs can help make positive changes to the roadway safety culture of the United States.

Jim Tymon, AASHTO’s executive director, noted in remarks at the 2023 summit that a major aim of this event is to bring together different committees and councils within AASHTO to help embed a more robust safety culture within state DOTs and the lifecycle of the transportation projects they oversee as well.

“There should not just be one group of people addressing [transportation] safety issues,” Tymon stressed. “It should be the entirety of the state DOT community and of AASHTO as well.”

For the 2024 summit, the objectives are to advance AASHTO’s Safety Action Plan; report on national, state, and AASHTO safety initiatives; continue joint executive, managerial, and practitioner conversations on notable safety practices; highlight the application of new resources; and continue collaboration across the roadway lifecycle, throughout state DOTs, and with partner stakeholders.

In collaboration with other AASHTO committees and external partner organizations, the AASHTO Committee on Safety will host sessions at the 2024 summit designed to maximize sharing state and partner experiences. Interactive sessions will allow participants to share the successes and challenges they have experienced and to learn ways others have been working on the same issues.

With more than 350 participants expected, the 2024 summit is expected to be a dynamic and diverse forum where state DOT leaders, AASHTO committee leaders, representatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal modal agencies, as well as other partner agencies, consultants, researchers, and private sector firms come together to explore innovative approaches to positively impact safety performance and improve the integration of safety practices throughout the state DOT community.