More Vision Zero Resources
Source: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Offers a guide to help communities implement safe active transportation and multimodal improvements, including Complete Streets, trails and greenways, and mobility hubs as strategies.
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The Vision Zero Network is a collaborative campaign to help communities reach their goals of Vision Zero — eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries — while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Fosters collaboration between Vision Zero communities through mentor-mentee relationships and peer partnerships.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Provides strategies for prioritizing youth pedestrian and bicyclist safety with the broader goal of improving safety for all road users.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Is a national non-profit that supports communities through technical assistance, the Vision Zero Focus Cities program, and guidance documents.
Read More >Source: National Safety Council (NSC) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Awards funding to evidence-based highway safety programs that support the National Safety Council's Vision Zero efforts.
Read More >Source: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)
Walks communities through the steps in creating a Vision Zero plan based on research into best practices. The guide benefits communities in developing an initial plan as well as places updating existing plans.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Provides examples and guidance on using Safe Streets and Roads for All funding for equitable traffic enforcement.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Presents a safety analysis with models for pedestrian-related crashes in Montgomery County, MD.
Read More >Improving How Journalists Report Car Crashes with Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Source: Vision Zero Reporting
Offers a tool to help journalists report crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians more accurately.
Read More >Source: ITE and FHWA
Introduces a five-stage framework to help practitioners better understand the impacts of speed on road safety.
Read More >Source: Next City
Reports on crashes resulting in deaths or serious injuries at six roadways i Austin, TX.
Read More >Source: AASHTO
Provides guidance on pedestrian facilities along streets and highways and identifies effective measures for accommodating pedestrians in public rights-of-way as well as appropriate methods for accommodating them on a variety of roadway and facility types.
Read More >Source: Road to Zero Coalition
Shares general knowledge and strategies around road safety through a resource library.
Read More >Source: USDOT
Addresses the national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
Read More >Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project: Year One Report
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Summarizes work, findings, and deliverables from the first year of the Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project work plan (October 2019-September 2020).
Read More >Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Presents a roadmap for states to develop comprehensive crash-related data linkage systems with special attention to measuring serious injuries in crashes.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Provides information about Vision Zero for Youth and strategies for prioritizing youth pedestrian and bicyclist safety with the broader goal of improving safety for all road users.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief focuses on how events, such as Walk or Bike to School Day, can serve as powerful catalysts for improving safety and building a healthy community for everyone.
Read More >The Benefits of Slowing Down Traffic Starting Where Children Walk and Bike
Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief describes lessons learned on addressing speed through roadway design and operations changes that benefit youth walkers and bicyclists.
Read More >Source: San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco Police Department
Report summarizes characteristics of traffic deaths in San Francisco from 2014-2018.
Read More >Guide for Scalable Risk Assessment Methods for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes scalable risk assessment methods for pedestrians and bicyclists, wherein risk is a measure of the probability of a crash to occur given exposure to potential crash events. This guide outlines eight sequential steps to develop risk values at various desired geographic scales, and describes the scope and nature of each step, including any guiding principles.
Read More >NCHRP Research Report 893: Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis
Source: Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Provides a safety analysis method that can be used to proactively identify sites for potential safety improvements based on specific risk factors for pedestrians. A systemic approach, as opposed to a “hot-spot” approach, enables transportation agencies to identify, prioritize, and select appropriate countermeasures for locations with a high risk of pedestrian-related crashes, even when crash occurrence data are sparse. The guidebook also provides important insights for the improvement of data collection and data management to better support systemic safety analyses.
Read More >Source: National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides parents and caregivers an overview of the stages of child development and identifies which walking safety skills to teach along the way.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Offers principles behind Vision Zero to provide a foundation for policymaking and planning.
Read More >Lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph in Boston: effects on vehicle speeds
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Study evaluated the effects of the speed limit reduction from 30mph to 25mph on speeds in Boston, Massachusetts.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal
Advances six inter-related focus areas to manage traffic speeds, including: data and data-driven approaches; research and evaluation; technology; enforcement and adjudication; engineering; education and communications.
Read More >Source: World Health Organization
Demonstrates how excessive and inappropriate speed is among the key risks for road traffic deaths and injuries worldwide and illustrates how safe speeds are among main components of a “safe systems approach” to road safety.
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