2024 marks the first year that the California Department of Transportations is implementing road safety actions identified in the biennial Road Safety Action Plan that enhances road safety for every traveler on California’s roadways.
The 2023-2024 RSAP is Caltrans’ roadmap to embed the Safe System Approach in all its functions. It guides Caltrans in meeting its aspirational goal to eliminate all fatal and serious-injury crashes by 2050.
The RSAP provides a framework for realizing Caltrans’ safety vision. It advances the work that began with the creation of the Division of Safety Programs in 2020 and release in 2021 of the very first Director’s Policy on Road Safety (DP-36), which adopts the Safe System Approach.
To establish an RSAP process, Caltrans identified single points of
