Welcome to the
Medford TSAP
Online Open House
Thank you for engaging in the Online Open House!
Thank you to everyone who reviewed the recommended strategies for addressing transportation safety issues in Medford. The comment period has closed, but you can still read through these materials to learn about the draft recommendations. Please visit the project website to stay up to date on the next phase of the project.
What is the Medford Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP)?
Project Background
In 2022, the Medford City Council adopted an ordinance declaring the goal of eliminating roadway deaths and serious injuries by 2035. To help achieve this goal, the City applied for and received a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to prepare a Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP). The TSAP will position the City to pursue additional funding for safety improvements through state and federal programs, such as ODOT’s All Road Transportation Safety (ARTS) program and FHWA’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program.
Project Purpose
The TSAP will provide a strategic action plan for eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries by:
Analyzing existing roadway safety issues
Identifying trends and patterns that contribute to fatal and serious injury crashes
Developing treatments and strategies to improve safety within the community
The TSAP utilizes the Safe System Approach to achieve these desired outcomes.
The Safe System Approach
The Safe System Approach (SSA) builds multiple layers of protections into our transportation network to mitigate inherent risks, prevent crashes, and minimize harm when crashes occur. The SSA is a mindset shift from crash prevention to injury/fatality prevention, putting more emphasis on designing for mistakes that people make so that those mistakes don’t result in fatal or severe injury crashes.
The six SSA principles on the outside ring of the graphic encompass the fundamental beliefs of this approach.
The six SSA elements are presented in the middle ring of the graphic and complement the principles.
How does this help us achieve the City’s adopted vision of zero fatal and serious injury crashes?
The “Swiss Cheese Model” of redundancy creates layers of protection
Death and serious injuries only happen when all layers fail
Learn More about the plan
Since the Fall of 2024, we’ve been working towards developing a Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) aimed at eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries. Phase 1 focused on data collection and analysis, and collecting input from the community about safety concerns and priorities. In Phase 2, we developed recommended strategies, countermeasures, and a framework for monitoring and sustaining safety improvements. This online survey, along with the October 2nd community meeting, will be used to gather feedback on these recommendations. In Phase 3, we will summarize Phases 1 and 2, and identify next steps for plan implementation and tracking progress.
What we Know
Medford had 24 roadway fatalities between 2018 and 2022, or an average of 4.8 fatal crashes per year, and that average has been increasing over time. The Medford City Council adopted an ordinance declaring a goal to achieve zero roadway deaths or serious injuries by the year 2035.
What we’ve Heard
Through Community Conversations and a Citywide online mapping exercise, we identified key themes, behavior and infrastructure concerns, and commonly mentioned intersections. The feedback that we received from the public helped guide our proposed strategies for addressing transportation safety issues in Medford.
What Frameworks we’re using
There are a few systems that we are using to guide our approach. The Safe System Approach and the Roadway Design Hierarchy will help guide us through developing and prioritizing strategies.
