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Webinar User Tips

The webinar is being recorded and will be available via our webinar recap.

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What is Vision Zero Network?

Resources.

Discussions & Webinars.

Peer exchange.

Policy Initiatives.

Events.

Learn more at visionzeronetwork.org

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Vision Zero Network Priorities

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Thanks to the Road to Zero Coalition

  • The Road to Zero Coalition (RTZ) is an initiative of the National Safety Council (NSC), bringing together 1,000+ organizations committed to ending traffic deaths in the United States by 2050.

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  • Via reports, webinars, meetings, resource libraries, monthly newsletters, and an annual grant program, RTZ shares best practices and enables members to focus on what works.

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  • RTZ experts are committed to pursuing equity within a Safe System Approach for road safety.

Learn more at nsc.org/roadtozero

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Overview for today

  • Challenges before us

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  • Promising developments

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  • Panel discussion:
    • Measuring & Tracking Inequities
    • Right-Sizing the Role of Enforcement
    • Meaningful Community Engagement

Source: Arlington’s Transportation Safety Equity Plan

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40,000+ preventable traffic deaths & millions serious injuries each year in U.S.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): 2016-2020 Final File and 2021 Annual Report File (ARF)

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Source: Dangerous by Design

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In the U.S., Black drivers about 2x as likely to be pulled over and about 4x as likely to be searched by police.

Source: The Stanford Open Policing Project

Photo: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

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Federal focus on equity in road safety

“For the first time, (U.S.) DOT has centered Equity as a Department-wide strategic goal …

… a critical step to institutionalizing equity across the Department’s policies and programs …

… aim of reducing inequities across our transportation systems and the communities they affect.”

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Federal focus on equity in road safety

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ex: Safe Streets & Roads for All Funding

$1 Billion/year to 1,000+ communities, including equity focus

ex: Policy to end DDACTS program encouraging traffic stops for minor infractions as crime-fighting tool

Source: Walk Bike Berkeley

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This isn’t only happening at the federal level…

San Francisco Chronicle, 2023

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Progress & Pitfalls: A Real Talk on Equity in Roadway Safety

Jamila Porter, DrPH, MPH

Chief of Staff

de Beaumont Foundation

Jill Locantore

Executive Director

Denver Streets Partnership

Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Today’s Panelists

Jacob Smith

Executive Director

National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS)

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  • Measuring & Tracking Inequities

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ex: Oakland, California

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  • 60% of severe & fatal crashes on 8% of streets

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  • 95% of high-injury streets are in medium- or high-ranking "Priority Equity Communities”

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Targeting investments where they're needed most

On HIN and in High/Highest Priority Equity Community

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Not on HIN and in Low and Medium Priority Equity Community

High and Highest Priority Equity Communities

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Medium, Low and Lowest Priority Equity Communities

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  • Right-Sizing the Role of Traffic Enforcement

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This plan commits to “reducing police-led enforcement that has unjustly been concentrated among Black, Brown and immigrant communities.”

  • City of Philadelphia

Vision Zero Action Plan 2025

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Philadelphia Inquirer, 2022

Philadelphia Tribune, 2023

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  • Meaningful Community Engagement

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  • Hires those with lived experience in communities they serve as community engagement liaisons

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  • Dedicates funding for community-initiated safety projects

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Tiffany Smith

tiffany@visionzeronetwork.org

www.visionzeronetwork.org

@visionzeronet