The Roadway Safety Modernization Act of 2025 allows states and transportation agencies to use federal highway safety grants to adopt advanced technologies like predictive analytics, telematics data, and other data-driven tools to identify and prevent crashes before they happen. The bill modifies three main federal highway safety programs—the Highway Safety Improvement Program, the National Highway Freight Program, and National Priority Safety Programs—to explicitly support these modern safety technologies alongside traditional approaches. Within one year of the bill's enactment, the Transportation Secretary must issue guidance on best practices for protecting privacy, ensuring data security, and validating the effectiveness of these tools, while also coordinating across federal agencies to promote their consistent use. The bill also requires the Federal Highway Administration to study whether new operating standards are needed for intelligent freight transportation systems and report findings to Congress within one year. No specific new funding amounts are allocated in the text; rather, the bill expands how existing federal highway safety grant money can be spent.
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