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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
vision zero; transportation planning
Purpose
Urges the U.S. President and the U.S. Congress to eliminate Vision Zero and the Safe Systems approach to transportation planning and funding.
Background
The safety goal
of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is to reduce
transportation-related serious injuries and fatalities across the
transportation system. Vision Zero is a transportation plan, first established
in Sweden in 1997, with a strategy to eliminate all
traffic-related serious injuries and fatalities and asserts that even one death
on the transportation system is unacceptable. FHWA states that the goal of
reaching zero deaths requires the implementation of a Safe System which adopts
the principle that humans make mistakes and that human bodies have a limited
ability to tolerate crash impacts. Therefore, the Safe System approach involves
anticipating human mistakes by designing and managing road infrastructure to
keep the risk of a mistake low and to ensure that, when a mistake leads to a
crash, the impact on the human body does not result in a fatality or serious
injury (FHWA).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Urges the U.S. President and the U.S. Congress to eliminate Vision Zero and the Safe Systems approach to transportation planning and funding, and instead promote transportation solutions that prioritize sound engineering methods, reliable safety outcomes, flexibility and engineering innovation without compromising individual freedoms or economic efficiency.
2. Directs the Secretary of State to transmit copies of the memorial to the U.S. President, the President of the U.S. Senate, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and each member of the U.S. Congress from Arizona.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 17, 2025
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