public health
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 […]
September 2, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, People Behind the Progress
Leah Fisher, a Built and Natural Environment Analyst, for Clackamas County, OR. Leah has been in this shared public health and transportation and land use role at Clackamas County for just over one year. She works collaboratively with the Department of Transportation (DTD) to incorporate health and equity into the County’s long-range plans and projects. […]
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 […]
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 […]
January 8, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
Imagine if we depended on each person in the country to figure out their own plan to get clean water to their individual household, rather than investing in a shared filtration and sanitation system to provide safe, clean drinking water to the entire community. Fortunately, wise people have figured this out, and we all benefit. […]
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 […]
March 4, 2021 • BY Leah Shahum • IN Press, News, Zero Traffic Deaths
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Leah Shahum, Vision Zero Network, leah@visionzeronetwork.org Amy Cohen, Families for Safe Streets, amy@familiesforsafestreets.org, 646-581-4232 Crash Victims & Safety Advocates Decry Appalling Increase in Traffic Deaths & Urge Action New Report Estimates 2020 Traffic Deaths Hit 13-Year High; Spike in Rate of Roadway Deaths Highest in 96 Years March 4, 2021 — Advocates for safe […]
August 11, 2016 • BY Vision Zero Network • IN News
Looking at trends in the short term doesn’t always paint a complete picture. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be discouraged by the direction of traffic safety in the U.S. described in two recent reports — one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and another from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA). Both reports analyze recent data to answer a similar big picture question: When it comes to traffic safety, how are we doing? Unfortunately, the answer is “not good enough.”
April 14, 2016 • BY Vision Zero Network • IN News, Case Studies
If 30,000 people were killed each year in the United States by a curable illness, we would call it a public health crisis. We would deploy resources, vaccines and interventions to address the spread and bring the death toll to the only acceptable level: zero. Yet, every year 30,000+ people are killed in preventable traffic collisions in this country. Vision Zero asks us to see those traffic deaths like polio or cholera: epidemics that, with an urgent health framing and public response, can be eradicated. In this case study we explore how San Francisco, New York City and Chicago are using the tools of public health — including epidemiology, research and a focus on the root causes of health inequities — to advance their Vision Zero efforts.
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