MAP4S production will involve compiling crash data, assessing crash contributing circumstances, determining crash causalities, and recommending proven, innovative, and high-impact/low-cost safety projects for each municipality within the District. As the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority (NJSEA) has a statutory obligation to mitigate adverse impacts of new development projects throughout the District, and hence, is leveraging this opportunity to analyze the impacts of land use development on safety and identify current and future safety needs in the District, particularly those related to the impacts of heavy truck traffic on vulnerable users of the roadway network in underserved communities. The recent exponential growth in e-commerce and the number of warehouses within the District has emphasized the need for safe multimodal connectivity and accessibility by District stakeholders. The District’s higher crash fatality rate than the State’s fatality rate is a testament to this need. By compiling input from public and private stakeholders, MAP4S will provide a robust plan for District municipalities to understand their safety needs and prioritize proposed safety projects for implementation to promote and establish the zero-fatality initiative in their towns. 

Concurrent roadway safety planning efforts in the region, including the Hudson County Vision Zero Safety Action Plan and the Bergen County Local Safety Action Plan, will also be considered by MAP4S.