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Toward Zero Deaths: Proactive Steps for Your CommunityPresented by: Brian Roberts, P.E., National Association of County EngineersMarie Walsh, Ph.D., Louisiana Local Technical Assistance ProgramRobert Hull, P.E., Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Est. Dec. 2014
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Today’s Presenters
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Marie Walsh, Ph.D.LA LTAP Director
Brian Roberts, P.E. NACE Exec.
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Robert Hull, P.E.Cambridge
Systematics, Inc.
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Once you have completed this webinar, you will:
Goals of this Webinar
Have an understanding of the proactive steps you can take to get a zero death program started in your county or city!
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To achieve the webinar goal, you will learn to:
Learning Outcomes
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Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Brian Roberts, P.E. NACE Exec. Director
Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Road To Zero
• Broad Coalition established by NSC, NHTSA, FHWA
• Scenario Developments by Rand Corporation
• Grants
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Zero is the Goal!
Vision Zero Network
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2015 National Crash Statistics
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• In 2015– 35,092 people died – 2.44 million people injured – 6.3 million traffic crashes were reported– $242 billion estimated economic cost to Nation
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• On an average day– 96 people die– 6,685 people injured – 17,260 crashes occur– $663 million average daily cost to Nation (2010)
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Robert Hull, P.E. Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Vision: A highway system free of fatalities, changing the nation’s culture to the point where even one traffic-related death is unacceptable
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TZD Emphasis Areas
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TZD Emphasis Areas
Safer Infrastructure
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Directing Your Questions via the Chat Pod
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Marie Walsh, Ph.D.LA LTAP Director
Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Traffic Safety Culture
The values and believes shared among groups of road users and stakeholder that influence their decision to behave or act in ways that affect traffic safety.
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Safety Culture
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Safety Culture
Safety culture is more than public information campaigns Safety must be a factor in every transportation decision
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Directing Your Questions via the Chat Pod
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Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
Brian Roberts, P.E. NACE Exec. Director
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Toward Zero Deaths Action Items
• Formal Adoption of TZD
• Explicitly Incorporate TZD into Short and Long range plans (transportation, other plans)
• Actively engage safety stakeholders– DOTs– Law Enforcement
• Join TZD movement– Become a participant– Download and USE the National Strategy
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Implementation
• Use Toward Zero Deaths as a resource– National network of like-minded colleagues– Engage and build on collective knowledge
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Implementation
• TZD needs a champion
• You may already have a head start– Do you already have a zero-based goal?– What are you already doing that’s listed in the
National Strategy?
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Implementation
• Formal adoption
• Establish inter-departmental and/or inter-agency work group
• Review and consider all identified strategies
• Commit to data collection and analysis
• Participate with State SHSPs
• Develop Local Safety Improvement Plans
• Continuing education
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Implementation
• Collaboration is key– Who are your current partners?– Who else can you bring to the table? – How can you work together to realize a common
vision? – What do you need to do in your area to bring
people into the fold on a zero-based goal?
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Marie Walsh, Ph.D.LA LTAP Director
Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Improved Safety Management
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Improved Safety Management
• Safety Partnerships and Planning
• Data, Data Systems, and Analysis Tools
• Develop a Skilled Highway Safety Workforce
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Improved Safety Management
• Safety Partnerships and Planning– Strengthen and expand strategic highway safety
planning and implementation activities– Develop and improve coordination between the
transportation and public health communities and injury surveillance practices to better develop, implement, and evaluate state, regional, and local safety plans
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Improved Safety Management
• Safety Partnerships and Planning– Educate judges, prosecutors and law enforcement
on the impact of impaired driving, distracted driving, restraint use, and aggressive driving and speeding on motor vehicle-related fatalities, the value of motorcycle helmets in reducing motorcyclist fatalities, and risks related to work zones.
– Develop, implement and evaluate public education campaigns to improve public understanding of highway safety
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Improved Safety Management
• Data, Data Systems, and Analysis Tools– Improve crash data collection– Improve the accuracy and completeness of crash
location information for all public roads– Develop data analysis methods and tools for use
at the state, regional, and local levels across different stakeholders, including cost‐benefit analysis for behavioral programs
– Implement analysis tools that support data-driven decision making
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Improved Safety Management
• Develop a Skilled Highway Safety Workforce– Plan for succession of staff with highway safety
knowledge– Develop and promote core competencies for
specific positions within organizations
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Increase restraint use by drivers and passengers.
• Reduce speeding-related fatalities.
• Reduce impaired driving fatalities.
• Reduce driver distraction-related fatalities.
• Increase safety of young drivers.
• Increase safety of older drivers.
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Increase Seat Belt Use by Drivers and Passengers– Enact and enforce primary seatbelt laws– Implement high-visibility restraint enforcement,
including nighttime and child restraint use
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Reduce speeding-related fatalities– Enact targeted enforcement for speeding-related
offenses– Enact legislation and implement automated traffic
enforcement—including pervasive automated speed enforcement and applications for school and work zones
– Implement rigorous aggressive driving and speeding-related enforcement programs
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Reduce impaired driving fatalities– Enact legislation and implement high-visibility
sobriety checkpoints.– Implement appropriate penalties and DWI/DUI
courts.
• Reduce driver distraction-related fatalities– Enact and enforce legislation to address
distracted driving—including texting bans
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Safer Drivers and Passengers
• Increase safety of young drivers– Strengthen GDL legislation and enforce
graduated driver licensing laws
• Increase safety of older drivers– Implement Medical Advisory Boards (MABs) that
independently review older driver capabilities
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Safer Vulnerable Users
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Safer Vulnerable Users
• Pedestrians
• Bicyclists (or pedalcyclists, including all wheeled and pedal-powered vehicles)
• Motorcyclists
• Individuals whose work takes place on the roadway– Construction and maintenance workers– Emergency medical and incident responders – Law enforcement personnel
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Safer Vulnerable Users
• Pedestrians – Enact and enforce traffic laws applicable to motor
vehicle operators and vulnerable users that improve pedestrian safety
– Implement pedestrian awareness programs targeting pedestrian visibility and impaired walking
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Safer Vulnerable Users
• Bicyclists– Enact and enforce traffic laws applicable to motor
vehicle operators and vulnerable users that improve bicycle safety
– Raise driver awareness of proper behaviors around bicyclists
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Safer Vulnerable Users
• Motorcyclists – Enact and enforce motorcycle helmet legislation
for all ages and riders– Implement targeted enforcement and public
education programs to reduce the risk of motorcyclist fatalities (specifically speeding and impaired riding)
– Implement motorcycle rider education on impaired driving, distracted driving, protective equipment, training and licensing (including conspicuity)
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Safer Vulnerable Users
• Personnel on Roadways– Educate drivers on safer driving practices in
work zones – Improve work zone design and operations to
reduce the risk of work zone fatalities– Improve speed management and enforcement in
work zones to reduce the risk of work zone fatalities
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Brian Roberts, P.E. NACE Exec. Director
Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Safer Vehicles
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Safer Vehicles
• Alert drivers to risks.
• Assist drivers who are at risk of a crash.
• Protect vehicle occupants during crashes.
• Enable communication with other vehicles and the roadway.
• Ensure vehicles continue to perform as designed.
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Safer Infrastructure
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Safer Infrastructure
• Upgrade infrastructure to mitigate crashes and reduce injury severity.
• Adopt advanced cross-cutting technologies. Improve design practices to maximize safety benefits.
• Ensure agency policies and procedures incorporate safety considerations throughout the highway project development process.
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Safer Infrastructure
• Lane Departures– Install retroreflective signing and pavement
markings to reduce the risk of lane departures
• Intersections– Improve signing, markings, and lighting to
increase driver awareness of intersections– Improve signal timing by adding protective left-
turn phases, improving clearance intervals, and coordinating signals
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
Of the drivers who died while being transported to the hospital, 75 % were rural drivers compared to 25% for urban drivers
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
• Improve incident detection, 911 access, and enhanced 911 system capabilities.
• Improve on-scene medical care and transport to hospitals.
• Improve access to higher-level trauma centers.
• Collaborate with safety partners to improve understanding of EMS and identify opportunities to reduce crashes and save lives.
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
• 9‐1‐1 Access and Capabilities– Plan for Phase II‐compliant‐enhanced 9‐1‐1
centers– Participate in “Next Generation 9‐1‐1” planning
and implementation
• EMS System Response and Capacity– Implement the National EMS Education Agenda
for the Future as published by NHTSA
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Enhanced Emergency Medical Services
• On-Scene Medical Care– Implement the “Field Triage Scheme: The
National Trauma Triage Protocol” as published by the CDC
• Crash Victim Patients– Implement air medical helicopter utilization
criteria
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Directing Your Questions via the Chat Pod
1. Chat pod is on left side of screen between attendees pod & closed
caption pod
2. Type your question or
comment here
3. Answers will appear here unless addressed
verbally
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Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
Robert Hull, P.E. Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
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• Let’s get to work– Join the dialogue– Get started– Spread the message– Accept the challenge
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Zero Program Resources
• Toward Zero Deaths
http://www.towardzerodeaths.org/
• Vision Zero
http://visionzeronetwork.org/
• Road to Zero
http://www.nhtsa.gov/About-NHTSA/Press-Releases/nhtsa_zero_deaths_coalition_10052016
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Safety/Organizational Culture Resources
• December 2015 and March 2016 Safety Center Webinar Archives
https://ruralsafetycenter.org/training-education/safety-center-trainings/archived-safety-center-trainings/
• Introduction to Road Safety Culture Video
https://ruralsafetycenter.org/resources/multimedia/
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Webinar Co-Hosts
• Safety Center
https://ruralsafetycenter.org/
• NACE
http://www.countyengineers.org/Pages/default.aspx
• NLTAPA
http://www.nltapa.org/
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“Together, you and the National Center for Rural Road Safety, can
make a difference in improving safety for your family, community, and all
road users.”
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Directing Your Questions via the Chat Pod
1. Chat pod is on left side of screen between attendees pod & closed
caption pod
2. Type your question or
comment here
3. Answers will appear here unless addressed
verbally
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In this webinar, you have learned to:
Learning Outcomes
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Understand the origins and background of the zero deaths philosophy
Be familiar with the latest fatality trends
Identify the six emphasis areas in the TZD National Strategy
Understand the importance of Safety Culture
List the implementation steps for TZD on Rural and Local Agencies
Understand the proactive steps to take to get a TZD program started in your county or city
Know where to find additional resources for TZD
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Upcoming 2016 Webinars
Results of the Safety Center’s Research Project: Assessing the Operational and Cultural Environment of
the Transportation Workforce
January 31, 2017 11:00-12:30 AM Mountain
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Archived Webinars
Access the webinar archives
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Training Videos
Introduction to Road Safety Culture
Watch this video
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To help you improve roadway safety, let us be your trusted “safety sidekick.”
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Contact Information
If you have any questions related to this presentation, please contact:
Robert Hull - [email protected]
Marie Walsh – [email protected]
Brian Roberts - [email protected]
Or contact the National Center for Rural Road Safety Help Desk at:
(844) 330-2200 or [email protected]
http://ruralsafetycenter.org/
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