
Vision Zero
Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
The premise is that no loss of life is acceptable from crashes on our roadways. Humans are fallible and therefore the roadways should be designed to account for this and prevent deaths or serious injuries when mistakes happen.
The data driven plan focuses on the "four Es" of roadway safety: Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Medical Services. Our plan will also include two more "Es" - Equity and Evaluation. It brings together a host of stakeholder agencies and commissions to collaborate, and develop and implement, an action plan to achieve the common goal so many of us have, safer roads for all users.
Anne Arundel County safety partners from different agencies and disciplines have come together to share resources, strategies, and develop a draft plan for Vision Zero.
This Vision Zero Steering Committee is comprised of representatives from the following local and State agencies: