The Alabama Department of Transportation is partnering with the Alabama Transportation Assistance Program at Auburn University to administer a Safety Technical Assistance for Counties and Cities (STACC) program. STACC provides technical support, training and other activities to Alabama counties and cities to support their efforts to reduce fatalities and injuries on city and county roads. It will also support the goals of both the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety Plan and the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) Towards Zero Deaths strategy (TZD).
Alabama is predominantly rural with 74,691 of our 101,975 miles of the public roadways in rural areas as of 2016. Many counties and cities lack the personnel resources and/or expertise to perform safety reviews and analyses. All Alabama counties and many cities employ a full time licensed engineer. However, diminishing revenues and increased demands on local governments limit the time they have to perform safety reviews and analyses. The STACC program makes road safety technical assistance services available to cities and counties that otherwise would be unobtainable due to their limited resources. The program’s focus is primarily for counties with a population less than 50,000 and cities with a population less than 15,000 but is intended to be valuable to all local governments.