Specifications include, but are not limited to: Developing guidance for MPOs and SHSOs to improve coordination on local and regional behavioral safety efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes. The guidance should describe the mutual benefits of enhanced coordination on local and regional traffic safety behavioral issues, introduce best practices, and develop scalable processes and tools to develop a framework for engaging MPOs to work in collaboration with SHSOs. The guidance should address a broad range of topics related to the objective, such as, but not limited to, the following: • Describing current SHSO and MPO practices for implementing behavioral traffic safety approaches; • Identifying challenges for collaboration to meet the project objective; • Developing case studies that include examples of collaboration and innovation, both national and international; • Identifying and developing strategies for effective collaboration; • Identifying and describing the benefits of collaboration between MPOs and SHSOs; • Developing effectiveness methods and metrics; and • Developing a toolkit of innovative strategies to facilitate communication between MPOs of various sizes and SHSOs.
