Our Safety Message
Safety is a core principle within MaineDOT’s overall mission. Our focus is to provide a safe transportation system for all users regardless of which mode of transportation they choose.
MaineDOT supports Toward Zero Deaths which is a national strategy on highway safety that advocates eliminating serious injuries and deaths on our nation’s roadways. We also support the Safe System Approach as the roadmap for achieving that goal.
Maine’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
While MaineDOT considers highway safety in all the work we do from planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating our highway system, we cannot achieve our goal on our own. Partnering and cooperating with other safety stakeholders throughout the state is necessary and accomplished through ongoing coordination with these partners through the Maine Transportation Safety Coalition (MTSC).
Together the MTSC jointly developed Maine’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) which provides a holistic approach to addressing highway safety in Maine. This group is our acknowledgement of the safe system principle that “Responsibility is Shared”. The SHSP provides a roadmap of strategies to address Maine's safety concerns in a coordinated way and maximize effectiveness and efficiency in achieving the improvements in strategic focus areas that consider engineering, enforcement, education/public outreach, and emergency services.
• Maine Strategic Highway Safety Plan (PDF)
• Maine Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment (PDF)