Vision Zero

First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero represents a paradigm shift in strategy to address transportation safety. The core concept behind Vision Zero is the fact that humans make mistakes and that the road system should be designed to account for those mistakes to prevent loss of life.  Vision Zero is a strategy that seeks to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

A Vision Zero city meets the following minimum criteria:

• A clear goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries has been set.
• The Mayor has publicly, officially committed to Vision Zero.
• A Vision Zero plan or strategy is in place, or the Mayor has committed to doing so in clear time frame.
• Key city departments (including police, transportation and public health) are engaged.

"​There's no one someone won't miss."
-Transport Accident Commission Victoria

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publications

• Centering Safety at Metropolitan Planning Organizations

• Moving from Vision to Action

• Transportation Safety Planning and the Zero Deaths Vision: A Guide for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Local Communities

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Toward Zero Deaths

Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) is the National Strategy on Highway Safety that brings together stakeholders by defining the common vision to drive individual and collaborative efforts to improve highway safety.

PennDOT adopted TZD in 2012 and began incorporating it into its annual PA Strategic Highway Safety Plan. In 2017, SPC adopted the PennDOT safety targets that reflect the 2017 Strategic Highway Safety Plan goal of reducing fatalities and serious injuries by 2% annually.

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