Understanding the Vision behind 'Zero' Traffic Fatality frameworks: A teleconference for Active Transportation Program (ATP) Awardees and Other Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Practitioners

Additional Resources

Below please find links shared by our panelists, Megan Wier and Leah Shahum, from the ATRC webinar entitled, “Understanding the Vision behind ‘Zero’ Traffic Fatality frameworks: A teleconference for Active Transportation Program (ATP) Awardees and Other Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Practitioners” on October 26, 2018.

Megan Wier, Director, Program on Health, Equity & Sustainability, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and Co-Chair, San Francisco Vision Zero Task Force

• San Francisco’s Vision Zero SF Website
• San Francisco’s TransBASESF: Linking Transportation to Our Health. http://transbasesf.org/transbase/ is an innovative relational database management system developed and designed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program on Health Equity and Sustainability to access, manage, and apply spatial data to inform solutions to transportation problems.
• San Francisco’s High Injury Network: Summary and Detailed Methodology
• San Francisco’s Vision Zero Injury Prevention Research Collaborative

Transportation Research Articles

• Morris D, Wier M. Geospatially Enabled Database for Analyzing Traffic Injuries in San Francisco, CA. Transportation Research Record 2016; 2595: 40-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2595-05
• Fleisher A, Wier ML, Hunter M. A Vision for Transportation Safety: Framework for Identifying Best Practice Strategies to Advance Vision Zero. Transportation Research Record 2016; 2582: 72-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2582-09

Leah Shahum, Founder and Director, Vision Zero Network

The Vision Zero Network is a collaborative campaign helping communities reach their goals of Vision Zero -- eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries -- while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

• "Transportation Safety Planning and the Zero Deaths Vision: A Guide for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Local Communities” published in August 2018 by the Federal Highway Administration, Transportation Safety Planning agency. This offers the latest guidance for states and local jurisdictions. https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/tsp/fhwasa18024/
• New national Road to Zero report, released in April 2018 has set a goal of zero traffic deaths nationally by 2050.
• National Transportation Safety Board, Reducing Speeding-Related Crashes Involving Passenger Vehicles July 2017 has recommendations for lowering speeds on roadways, including updating the 85% speed-setting standard.
• The Portland, OR Case Study on speed management is a strong local level model.
• Vision Zero Network's Resource Library.

Active Transportation Resource Center (ATRC) 

The Active Transportation Resource Center’s (ATRC) mission is to provide resources, technical assistance, and training to transportation partners across California to increase opportunity for the success of active transportation projects.

The ATRC is funded by an ATP grant to the California Department of Transportation - (Caltrans). Caltrans and the ATRC have also partnered with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Sacramento State College of Continuing Education (CCE) to assist in providing the resource center needs.

A recording of the session can be found here: https://youtu.be/87dlyhG0Mpk