NHTSA works with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to provide the roadmap, tools, guidance, and resources for State and local governments to use in designing and applying a balanced and effective speed management program. Speed management involves the following:

Defining the relationship between speed, speeding, and safety.

Applying road design and engineering measures to obtain appropriate speeds.

Setting speed limits that are safe and reasonable.

Applying enforcement efforts and appropriate technology that effectively target crash-producing speeders and deter speeding.

Effectively marketing communication and educational messages that focus on high-risk drivers.

Soliciting the cooperation, support, and leadership of traffic safety stakeholders.

To promote this strategy, NHTSA delivers a Speed Management Program course to State and local jurisdictions. The course uses a multidisciplinary approach to address speeding problems in States and local communities.

NHTSA also provides training to law enforcement officers on the use of speed-measuring devices (i.e., radar and lidar) in order to identify and take enforcement action against speeding drivers.

Finally, NHTSA works with national law enforcement partners, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs’ Association, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement to heighten awareness of the speeding problem in the United States and deliver effective enforcement countermeasures to combat it.