Office of Highway Safety

Safe Driving Initiatives

Safety is RIDOT’s highest priority. We apply a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to the difficult task of influencing driving behavior, tapping into a network of har- working and dedicated safety stakeholders. These partners incorporate perspectives from education, engineering, enforcement, and emergency medical services – all working together to raise public awareness of the devastation caused by traffic crashes.

We are committed to building the most comprehensive and effective traffic safety program in the country, one that continues to move Rhode Island toward the goal of zero deaths. To accomplish this mission, we have developed a comprehensive 10-year plan that identifies tasks and provides the funding to fully execute the plan. It includes departing from conventional messaging and funding unique advertising, social media and other outreach efforts that are clear and direct in communicating the dangers and consequences of impaired and distracted driving. Special focus is given as well as on the importance of seat belt usage, child passenger safety and issues surrounding pedestrian, bicycle and motorcycle safety.

Our messages are all designed to not only try to correct a bad driving behavior, but to make a cultural change that works to prevent the behavior. Our communications also include a call to action, to directly involve Rhode Islanders in the mission of intervening wherever possible, to take an active role to prevent friends, family or even total strangers from making the wrong choice and do something in a motor vehicle that could kill or injure someone.

Safe Driving Initiatives - Website Sections

We invite you to explore the links below to learn more about our safety outreach initiatives and what you can do to help make our roads safer.

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Highway Safety Infrastructure

At RIDOT we work tirelessly to make the roads as safe as we can. We commit at least $X million each year on traffic safety improvements, and all our capital projects include elements that make any new road or bridge we build safer than the one that preceded it.

In recent years we have made dozens of improvements, often tapping into new technology and the latest research that leads to new additions to the roads to make them safer. In recent years RIDOT has become a nationally recognized leader for its efforts to combat wrong-way driving deaths, installing wrong-way driving detectors at high-risk locations throughout Rhode Island. Elsewhere, RIDOT has moved to more visible and dynamic pedestrian crossing systems to help all users safely cross the road.

Our investments in traffic safety not only address these new additions to the roads to make the safer, but to improve on and properly maintain existing components such as highway lighting, traffic signals, pedestrian crossings, signage, and reflective striping and markers.

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Driving Infrastructure - Website Sections

Click the links below to learn more about new and improved traffic engineering solutions we are using on Rhode Island roads.

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Safety Plans & Reports

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