Vision Zero is a multinational road traffic safety project aimed at achieving a road system without any casualties or serious injuries involving road traffic. It was initiated in Sweden and approved by their parliament in October 1997. The core principle of the vision is that 'Life and health will never be exchanged for other benefits in society' rather than a more conventional comparison of costs and benefits, in which the money is placed on life and health, and then the value is used to decide how much money is spent on the road network toward the benefits of lowering how much risk.
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Principles
Vision Zero is based on the underlying ethical principle that "it can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving in a road transport system." As an ethical-based approach, Vision Zero serves to guide strategy selection and does not set specific goals or targets. In most road transport systems, road users take full responsibility for safety. Vision Zero changed this relationship by emphasizing that responsibility is shared by the designers of the transport system and road users.
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Speed ​​limit
Vision Zero suggests "the possibility of maximum long-term travel speeds related to infrastructure, given best practices in vehicle design and 100% restraints". This speed is based on human and car boundaries. For example, human tolerance for pedestrians who hit a well-designed car is about 30 km/h. If the speed is higher in the desired urban areas, the choice is to separate pedestrian crossings from traffic. Otherwise, pedestrian crossings, or zones (or vehicles), should be designed to produce a maximum speed of 30 km/h. Similarly, the security attached to well-designed cars can be anticipated to be a maximum of 70 km/h in frontal impact, and 50 km/h in side effects. Speeds greater than 100 km/h can be tolerated if the infrastructure is designed to prevent frontal and side effects.
"Roads without potential side effects or frontal impacts" are sometimes designated as Type 1 (Autobahns), Type 2 ("2nd 2nd") or Type 3 ("road 2 1"). These roads have a collision barrier that separates the opposite traffic, limited access, class separation and restrictions on slower and more vulnerable road users. Undivided rural roads can be very dangerous even with low-visibility speeds when compared. In 2010, the German rural road, which is generally limited to 100 km/h (62 mph), has a death rate of 7.7 deaths per billion kilometers traveled, higher than the 5.2 tariff in urban streets (generally limited to 50 km/km h (31 mph)), and much higher than the autobahn 2.0 level; autobahn carries 31% of motorized traffic while counting 11% of traffic deaths in Germany.
Implementation
Canada
In December 2015, Canada's Parachute prevention charity Parachute presented the Vision Zero concept, with Road Safety Strategist Matts Belin from Sweden, to nearly 100 road safety partners.
In November 2016, Parachute organized a one-day national road safety conference focusing on Vision Zero's goals and strategy, which was attended by leaders in the fields of health, traffic engineering, police enforcement, policy and advocacy.
From it, the Zero Vision Parachute Network was formed, consisting of over 250 supporters and road safety practitioners, law enforcement, government and the city. The Network serves to provide Canada with one goal to connect these stakeholders with others, and with information and resources to help communities address road safety challenges, using proven solutions.
The second Parachute Vision Zero Summit was held in October 2017, attended by network members and politicians, including Ontario Transport Minister Steven Del Duca.
Another organization, Vision Zero Canada (visionzero.ca) launched their national campaign in December 2015.
Efforts in Canadian cities:
- Edmonton: On September 22, 2015 Edmonton City Council announced that it was "the first Canadian city to officially adopt Vision Zero." The Road Safety Strategy 2016-2020 moves "toward zero fatal collisions and major injuries" but does not include zero death or major injury targets. Targets for the strategy are the rate of decline 1) overall collision injury, and 2) collision at the intersection.
- Vancouver: On April 5, 2016, the Vancouver City Council supported Vision Zero by directing staff to report back on strategies for zero traffic-related deaths and serious injuries.
- Toronto: On June 13, 2016 Toronto Mayor John Tory announced plans to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured in traffic by 20 percent in a decade. In the face of public condemnation, he retracts at a later date, and agrees to fight for zero death within five years.
- Ottawa: On July 5, 2017, Ottawa instructed its transport committee to produce a report with an updated action plan using the principles set forth in Vision Zero.
Dutch
In the Netherlands, sustainable safety approaches differ from Vision Zero because it recognizes that in most human accidents to be blamed, and that roads should be designed to "self-explain" thereby reducing the chances of a collision. The way that explains itself is easy to use and navigate, it becomes clear to the road users where it should be and how they should behave. The Netherlands also prevents dangerous differences in terms of mass, velocity and/or direction of mixing. The roundabout makes crossings on the road 50 or 70 km/h slow enough, 30 km/h, to allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross safely. Mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians are kept away from cars on separate trails over 30 km/h in built areas. Buses are also often given special lanes, preventing large mobs from conflicts with ordinary low-end cars.
Recently the Dutch have introduced the idea that the road must also be "forgiving", which is designed to reduce the result of traffic crashes when unavoidable things happen, the principles that are at the core of Dutch and Swedish policies.
Swedish
In 1997, the Swedish Parliament introduced the policy of "Vision Zero" which requires serious loss of life and losses reduced to zero by 2020. This is a significant step change in transport policy at the European level. All new roads are built to this standard and older roads are modified.
United Kingdom
In Europe EuroRAP, the European Road Appraisal Program brings together partnerships of automotive organizations, vehicle manufacturers and road authorities to develop protocols to identify and communicate the risks of road accidents and to develop best practice tools and guidelines for safer road engineering. EuroRAP aims to support governments in meeting their Vision Zero targets.
"Roadmap to European Single Transport Area" issued in 2011 by the European Commission states in point 2.5 (9): "By 2050, it moves close to zero deaths in land transport.In line with this goal, the EU aims to halve the way victims in 2020. "
The United Nations
The United Nations has a simpler purpose. The "Decade of Action for Road Safety" was founded on the goal of "stabilizing and then reducing" road traffic deaths by 2020. It established the Road Safety Fund "to encourage donors, the private sector and public support for the implementation of the Global Action Plan.
Results
Although some countries borrow some ideas from the Vision Zero project, it has been noted that rich countries have made tremendous progress in reducing traffic deaths while poor countries tend to see an increase in traffic deaths due to increased motorization.
Norwegian
Norway adopted the version of Vision Zero in 1999. In 2008, a staff engineer at the Norwegian Public Road Agency said "The zero vision has attracted more attention to road safety, but has not produced any significant short-term gains so far."
Swedish
Sweden, who started Vision Zero, had somewhat better results than Norway. With a population of around 9.6 million, Sweden has a long tradition of setting a target for quantitative road traffic safety. In the mid-1990s the 10-year target was set at a 50% reduction for 2007. This target was not met; the actual ten year reduction was 13% to 471 deaths. The target is revised to 50% by 2020 and to 0 deaths by 2050. In 2009 the reduction from 1997 total was 34.5% to 355 deaths.
The volume of traffic in Sweden continued to increase over the same period.
Dominican Republic
Vision Zero has influenced other countries, such as the Dominican Republic. This country, despite having the deadliest traffic in the world, has managed to reach the point where only forty Dominicans die per 100,000 Dominican residents each year by following a series of guides based on similar goals to reduce traffic deaths.
See also
- zone 30 km/h
References
External links
- Zero Parachute Vision Network
- Initiatives from the Swedish Government and Swedish Industry
- Vision Zero - Ethical approach to safety and mobility
- European Road Assessment Program
- iRAP Road Safety Toolkit - best practice guide for road engineering
- Vision Zero Auto Accident Prevention Scholarship
- Vision Zero Network
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