Using Peer Exchanges to Improve the Effectiveness of Strategic Highway Safety Plans

This report contains practical guidance for state departments of transportations (DOTs) on how to plan and conduct state-level peer exchanges as a means for identifying strategies, tactics, and practices to improve implementation, evaluation, and updating of their Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSPs). It includes a flexible and easily adaptable template that agencies can use to plan and conduct in-person and virtual peer exchanges, as well as reference and supportive material that would be useful to peer exchange organizers and participants. DOT safety program managers and staff should find this practical and cost-effective guidance helpful in organizing and conducting successful peer exchanges.