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Bend MPO outlines timeline, data approach for Transportation Safety Action Plan update
Summary
Staff reported a negotiated consultant scope is imminent for a federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant update; work is expected to begin in late September, run 16–18 months and include a project advisory committee with TAC members, law enforcement and other regional partners.
Andrea Napoli and other MPO staff briefed the Technical Advisory Committee on the status of the Bend Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) update and the related schedule for consultant work funded by a federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) award.
Napoli said the MPO secured SS4A funding to update Bend's TSAP and that staff are negotiating scope, budget and contract with the consultant team. "We're expecting that update to begin in late September and conclude in 2027, so kind of a 16 to 18 month time frame," Napoli said.
The update will form a project advisory committee (PAC) that includes TAC members and additional regional partners such as police, fire, ambulance services and the district attorney's office. Staff plan to hold three PAC meetings; timing is to be determined and may align with existing TAC meetings.
The consultant will analyze crash data — staff expect to use the 2018–2023 five‑year window as the primary dataset, with preliminary fatal crash data available for 2024 and 2025. Napoli noted ODOT posted 2023 crash data recently and that counties are at different stages: Deschutes County and others already have or are finalizing their TSAPs, and the MPO will focus its update on the City of Bend urban growth boundary while coordinating with county processes for unincorporated areas.
Staff said the consultant will provide preliminary recommendations for high‑crash locations and corridors; those recommendations could inform capital improvement programming and future grant applications when federal implementation funding becomes available (applicants anticipate a 2026 federal grant cycle). The MPO is targeting an October (or early November) adoption by the policy board, dependent on the consultant deliverable schedule.
Committee members asked about data lag and how to account for COVID‑era changes in traffic patterns. Napoli said the statewide data show a dip in 2020 followed by higher fatal and serious‑injury crash counts in later years; the consultant team will consider those anomalies and incorporate preliminary 2024–25 fatal crash data where possible.
The committee discussed coordination with COIC's regional outreach project, with staff saying the TSAP will identify safety priorities and the outreach program will implement communications, education and behavior‑change strategies that align with those priorities.
