The Roadway Safety Modernization Act of 2025 allows states and transportation agencies to use federal highway safety grant money to develop and deploy advanced technologies like predictive analytics, telematics, and data analysis tools to identify dangerous road segments and prevent crashes before they happen. The bill modifies three major federal highway safety programs—the Highway Safety Improvement Program, the National Highway Freight Program, and the National Priority Safety Programs—to explicitly permit funding for these technology-based safety initiatives. Within one year of the bill's enactment, the Secretary of Transportation must issue guidance on best practices for protecting privacy, ensuring data security, and validating the effectiveness of these tools, while also coordinating efforts across multiple federal transportation agencies. The legislation aims to modernize how states approach road safety by shifting from reactive crash response to proactive risk identification and prevention using validated data methodologies.
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