equity
November 1, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
Takeaways from the Vision Zero Cities Conference Many U.S. communities are increasingly eager to prevent traffic violence without unintentionally perpetuating biased traffic enforcement, which is particularly harmful to people of color and people in low-income communities. We explored strategies to re-assess and right-size the role of enforcement in a recent panel at the 2024 Vision […]
September 3, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
It’s important to celebrate the progress that some U.S. communities are making to prioritize health equity in their Vision Zero work. Examples include Oakland, CA implementing the majority of safety investments and improvements in the communities experiencing the greatest burden of safety risks; Philadelphia, PA ending pretext traffic stops for non-safety related offenses because of […]
July 3, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
The next time someone tries to challenge your investment in proven Vision Zero strategies for being too expensive, share these jaw-dropping findings with them: New York City saved $90 million in healthcare costs over the first five years of its Vision Zero changes. This comes from a recent study in the American Journal of Public […]
July 2, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
You’ve probably heard about the tremendous number of road safety improvements being planned and implemented in more than 1,000 communities across the nation thanks to new federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) funding. This includes new bikeways, sidewalks, pedestrian-scale lighting, traffic calming, safe speed strategies, safe routes to schools and parks, projects to […]
June 5, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
What does it mean when you hear that “Vision Zero is more than a goal? And more than just a slogan?” It means that advancing Vision Zero is not about working harder or caring about safety more – it is about doing things differently. Vision Zero – and the underlying Safe System approach – is […]
May 6, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
While transportation is most often thought of as how we get from one place to another—it's also about access and opportunity and our sense of place and community. So, efforts to advance Vision Zero is not just about the work that planners and engineers do, it’s an opportunity for everyone who uses the transportation system […]
March 4, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
With increasing urgency, researchers, advocates and practitioners are asking the question: How do we make our roadway safety efforts in the U.S. more effective and equitable? And increasingly, the most promising responses draw inspiration from the strategies used by the public health profession. While transportation and public health have long shared a symbiotic relationship, unfortunately, […]
February 6, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
To achieve Vision Zero, we’ve got to recognize and address the disparities in who faces the greatest safety risks on our roadways, sidewalks and bikeways. Today, Black people are killed in crashes at a 30 percent higher rate compared to the white people and those living in low-income communities experience a fatality rate 35 percent […]
October 27, 2023 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
In the U.S., BIPOC and low-income communities experience an alarmingly high and disproportionate burden of risk on our roadways. The need for change is urgent. And the opportunity is ripe for policymakers, roadway safety professionals and Vision Zero advocates to address this tragic – and preventable – racial and income gap in safety outcomes. Vision […]
August 8, 2023 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
Note we have a resource, Prioritizing Health Equity in Vision Zero Planning, outlining more actionable steps to integrate equity priorities in Vision Zero planning, decision-making, strategies, investments and more. With growing focus on Vision Zero – safe mobility for all people – there is an important opportunity to align the goals of roadway safety with […]
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