The "Improving Safety with Performance Management Peer Exchange," held on September 20, 2024, focused on sharing best practices and experiences among state DOTs, FHWA, and other agencies to enhance transportation safety performance. Participants engaged in a collaborative forum discussing strategies, tools, and resources aimed at reducing transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries. A series of sessions addressed safety performance metrics and calculation, risk and resiliency, and the support of vulnerable road users, with insights shared through group discussions and expert presentations. Innovative practices were highlighted in a video showcase from various agencies, emphasizing collaborative and systemic approaches to safety improvements. The exchange concluded with prioritization exercises and strategy discussions, aimed at fostering a collective advancement in safety performance management across transportation agencies.

Kelli Roberts, PE State Safety Program Manager and Ron Knezevich, PE State Safety Engineering Supervisor present on Georgia DOT's systemic safety countermeasures and collaborative approach to safety.

Texas Department of Transportation's Monica Aleman-Smoot, Lead Enterprise Risk Prevention and Management Program and Jim Padilla, Lead Transportation Performance Management Program, present on how Texas is "Leveraging Data in Risk and Performance Management for Better Employee Safety Outcomes".

Daniel Oldham, PE, Ph.D. Arizona Department of Transportation SHSP/RSA Engineering Specialist, presents on ADOT's use of drones in conducting an RSA.

Tara L Cullum, ODOT Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, presents on Oklahoma's safety performance measures.

Vanessa Spartan, AICP, RSP KDOT, Chief of Transportation Safety, presents on Kansas' Drive To Zero.

Jeremy Hunter, P.E. Managing Director of Asset Management, INDOT presents on their Safety Performance Management Program.

Garrett Dawe, P.E. Engineer of Traffic & Safety of Michigan Department of Transportation presents on their Safe System approach.

Jon Nelson, a Missouri DOT’s State Highway Safety and Traffic Engineer, presents on MODOT's SAFER program.

Jeff Lewis of UDOT gives a presentation on their Performance Metrics in UDOT's HSIP Program (UDOT Traffic & Safety).