Tools for learning about the problem

• ICBC Statistics

Solutions

• Active Transportation Design Guide – BC Minister of Transportation’s recommended policies, specifications, standards and guidelines to be followed in the development of active transportation infrastructure in British Columbia.
• B.C. Community Road Safety Toolkit and Vision Zero – RoadSafetyBC’s (Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General) road safety designs and strategies guide for local governments.
• Moving to Vision Zero: Road Safety Strategy Update and Showcase of Innovation in British Columbia – 2016 Report and strategy to make BC have “the safest roads in North America by 2020”.
• Zero Road Deaths and Serious Injuries: Leading a Paradigm Shift to a Safe System – OECD report describing the shift to “Safe Systems”, which is based on the premise that road crashes are both predictable and preventable, and that it is possible to move towards zero road deaths and serious injuries.
• Moving Beyond the Vision Zero Slogan – 2022 article from the Transportation Research Record on Safe Systems by Ge Shi , Vannesa Methoxha , Carol Atkinson-Palombo and Norman Garrick. Or read the important excerpts prepared by the Vision Zero Vancouver team.