Awareness of Vision Zero among United States' road safety professionals.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries from road traffic crashes, while increasing safe and equitable mobility for all. In 2015, the United States' Department of Transportation announced the official target of the federal government transportation safety policy was zero deaths. In 2017, we assessed the dissemination of Vision Zero in the United States. METHODS:We conducted a web-based survey in 2017 among road safety professionals. Email invitations were sent using relevant membership directories and conference lists. RESULTS:We surveyed 192 road safety professionals, including planning/engineering (57.8%), public health (16.7%), and law enforcement/emergency medical services (EMS) (8.9%). Awareness of Vision Zero was higher among planning/eng

SUBMITTER: Evenson KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938221 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature