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Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.

APPENDIX A
Survey Questionnaire

NCHRP Synthesis 20-05, Topic 56-19

Practices on Coordination of DOT Safety Activities and Governors Highway Safety Offices

Survey

Letter to the Respondent

Dear Participant,

The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in partnership with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is preparing a synthesis report on Practices on Coordination of DOT Safety Activities and Governors Highway Safety Offices.

The objective of the synthesis is to document how states coordinate Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and Highway Safety Office (HSO) management, practices, and associated funding in their processes, including program structure, planning, implementation, data sharing, evaluation, and reporting. To view the scope of this synthesis, please click this link.

Completion of this synthesis will assist state DOTs with identifying practices for coordinating HSIP and HSO activities and thereby help to enhance highway safety. Your cooperation in completing this survey will help to ensure the success of this synthesis project. The survey includes 25 questions, and we estimate that the survey will take approximately 30 to 45 minutes to complete. DOT survey responses will be shown in the published synthesis report. However, the identity of survey respondents will remain anonymous.

You have been identified as the appropriate person at your DOT to complete this survey. The survey link that you received is unique for your DOT. If it would be more appropriate for someone else at your DOT to take this survey, please forward the email with the survey link to them or send their name and email address to Henry Brown.

You may also collaborate with colleagues at your DOT and HSO to complete the survey by sharing the survey link with them. However, the survey may only be open on one computer at a time, and partial responses are saved upon closing the browser window.

HSO input into the survey responses will help provide a broader picture of coordination practices between HSIP and HSO. To the extent possible, you are highly encouraged to collaborate with your stateʼs HSO on survey responses. However, the survey response should be reviewed and submitted by you or someone else at your DOT.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.

Additional instructions are provided at the beginning of the survey. If you would like to download a PDF version of the survey for informational purposes, please click here.

Please complete this survey by February 24, 2025. If you have any questions, please contact the Principal Investigator, Henry Brown. Any supporting materials may be sent by email to Henry or uploaded in lieu of providing URLs. Thank you for participating in this survey!

Survey Instructions

  1. To begin the survey, click the forward arrow at the bottom of this page.
  2. To view and print the entire survey for informational purposes, click on this and download and print the document.
  3. To save your partial answers and complete the survey later, close the survey. Answers are automatically saved upon closing the browser window. To return to the survey later, open the original email from Henry Brown and click on the survey link.
  4. To pass a partially completed survey to a colleague, close the survey and forward the original email from Henry Brown to a colleague. Note that only one person may work on the survey at a time; the survey response should only be active on one computer at a time.
  5. To submit the survey, click on “Submit” on the last page.
  6. To view and print your answers after submitting the survey in Step #5, download and print the PDF on the following page which contains a summary of your responses.

Survey Tips

  1. Survey navigation is conducted by selecting the forward and back arrows at the bottom of each page.
  2. If you are unable to complete the survey, you can return to the survey at any time by opening the original email from Henry Brown and clicking on the survey link.

Questions

Contact Information

Name ___________________

State ___________________

Job Title ___________________

Phone Number _____________________

Email Address ______________________

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
Questions ask where the H S O is located, who managers report to, duties of the H S I P manager, and who the H S O head reports to.
Long Description.

The page contains questions about the location of the HSO within the DOT or another agency, followed by a request for the HSO website link. It asks who the DOT HSIP manager reports to, offering options such as the head of the DOT, executive staff, the state highway safety engineer, or other division heads. It lists selectable job duties for the HSIP manager, including completing reports, approving, evaluating, identifying, and selecting projects, leading education or outreach, and tracking budgets. The page ends with a question about who the state head of HSO reports to, with choices such as the governor, directors of public safety, motor vehicles, or the DOT, along with other state departments or division heads.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
Questions cover organizational charts, staff numbers for H S I P and H S O, S H S P custodian, and coordination ratings across activities.
Long Description.

The page asks which entities have organizational charts and requests links to any HSIP or HSO charts. It includes a table for estimating staff counts for HSIP and HSO across several number ranges. It asks which agency serves as custodian of the SHSP. The page ends with a rating table where respondents score coordination between HSIP and HSO for activities such as funding allocation, crash data analysis, behavioral safety efforts, and emergency medical coordination on a scale from low to high.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page lists coordination ratings for many activities and programs between H S I P and H S O using scales from low to high.
Long Description.

The page continues a rating table where respondents score coordination between HSIP and HSO across a wide set of activities, including law enforcement coordination, development of plans and reports, engagement with local agencies, identifying delivery methods, safety focus areas and strategies, evaluating projects, screening and selecting projects, public participation, road safety audits, outreach, and safety planning. An option for other activities is included. A second table asks respondents to rate coordination for specific programs such as high risk rural roads and railroad at-grade crossings, using a scale from low to high, with an option for not applicable.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page requests coordination ratings for added programs and identifies the lead agencies for each program, as well as any selected additional programs.
Long Description.

The page presents additional programs such as safe routes to school, use of penalty funds, and vulnerable road user assessment, asking respondents to rate coordination between HSIP and HSO on a scale from low to high, with an option for not applicable. It then provides a table to identify the lead agency for each program, offering choices for HSIP, HSO, or another program lead. Below the table, the page lists the same programs again with blank spaces for respondents to specify the lead agency for any programs where other is selected.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page asks how penalty funds are used, rates coordination for safety focus areas, and lists methods used to coordinate H S I P and H S O.
Long Description.

The page asks how the state uses penalty funds, offering choices such as alcohol impaired driving programs, eligible activities under HSIP, emergency medical services, or other uses. It then provides a rating table for estimating coordination between HSIP and HSO across safety focus areas including aggressive driving, commercial vehicles, distracted and impaired driving, crashes at intersections and lanes, motorcyclist safety, occupant protection, older and teen drivers, speeding, vulnerable road users, work zones, and any other specified areas. It ends with a list of selectable methods the state may use to coordinate HSIP and HSO activities, including decision rules, designated liaison personnel, and formal agreements.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page lists coordination methods, asks about state resources, identifies crash data custodian, and rates sharing of information between H S I P and H S O.
Long Description.

The page provides additional methods for coordinating HSIP and HSO activities, including regular or irregular meetings, sharing documents, using standard procedures, forming a steering committee, or selecting another method. It asks whether the state has developed resources such as guidance or policy documents to support coordination and requests links if they exist. It then asks which agency serves as custodian of the state’s crash data, offering the DOT, the state highway patrol, or another specified agency. A rating table follows, asking respondents to estimate how strongly HSIP and HSO share various information and resources, including analysis tools, artificial intelligence analyses, crowd sourced data, crash data, dashboards, data collection practices, data from local agencies, and data prepared for public sharing.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page rates sharing of added resources, identifies which entities maintain dashboards, and lists dashboard types needing state agency details.
Long Description.

The page continues the rating table by asking how strongly HSIP and HSO share additional resources such as law enforcement feedback, public participation feedback, performance metrics, safety analysis results, and any other specified information. It then provides a table for identifying which entity maintains different dashboard types, including crash statistics, project status, funding allocation, and other data collection efforts, with options for HSIP only, HSO only, both, another state agency, or not developed. A section below lists dashboard types selected as maintained by another state agency and provides blank fields for respondents to name the responsible agency for each.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page asks which dashboards are public, how H S I P and H S O share data, who leads P P E efforts, and how P P E information is shared.
Long Description.

The page asks which dashboard types maintained by the state are publicly available, including crash statistics, project status, funding allocation, other data collection efforts, or none. It then lists methods used to share information between HSO and HSIP, such as regular data pushes, requests as needed, data sharing agreements, shared servers, or other methods. Another question asks which entity typically leads public participation and engagement efforts, with choices for HSIP, HSO, either depending on context, or another specified option. The page ends with options describing how HSIP and HSO collaborate on public participation and engagement, including joint activities, sharing results as needed, or sharing results on a regular basis, website sharing, or other means.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
A page lists challenges to coordination, asks about other coordination chances, case example interest, and how H S I P and H S O collaborated on the survey.
Long Description.

The page asks respondents to choose up to three challenges that hinder coordination between HSIP and HSO, offering issues such as data availability, differing data practices, structural differences, evaluating performance, funding limits, partner coordination needs, staffing limits, or stakeholder concerns. It then asks whether the DOT has other opportunities to discuss safety efforts with the HSO if they do not coordinate during the HSIP process. Another question asks whether the agency is interested in participating in a case example that involves an interview and review of a written summary. The page ends by asking which statement best describes how HSIP and HSO collaborated to complete the survey, with options indicating joint completion or sharing survey questions for input, that the DOT completed the survey and the HSO reviewed the responses, that the DOT completed the survey without any HSO input, or that another collaboration approach was used, with space provided to describe it.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.

Submittal Instructions

To complete the survey and record your answers, please click the “Submit” button.

Please note that once you click the “Submit” button, you will not be able to modify your answers. To save your partial answers and complete the survey later, close the survey. Answers are automatically saved upon closing the browser window. To return to the survey later, open the original email from Henry Brown and click on the survey link. To pass a partially completed survey to a colleague, close the survey and forward the original email from Henry Brown to a colleague. Note that only one person may work on the survey at a time; the survey response should only be active on one computer at a time. To review your answers before submitting, please select the forward and back arrows at the bottom of each page.

End of Survey

Thank you for completing this survey. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Your responses are very important, and your feedback is welcome. For your information, a copy of your responses is provided below. You may download your responses in pdf format using the “Download pdf” link shown below. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the principal investigator, Henry Brown.

Your responses have been recorded, and you may now close your browser.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Coordination of Highway Safety Improvement Program and Highway Safety Office Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29375.
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