Vision Zero collection

Adopting Vision Zero

These resources will help you guide the implementation of road safety initiatives focusing on road users, road infrastructure and vehicles for those who are thinking about adopting Vision Zero.

• Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025

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  Road Safety Strategy 2025 is Canada’s fourth national road safety strategy that provides a flexible approach to allow for jurisdictions to implement road safety programs that meet their own needs. A new strategy is currently in development and will be shared when it is available.

• Making a Vision Zero commitment in Canada

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  This paper, developed with generous support from Desjardins, provides national thought leadership on a practical implementation of Vision Zero in Canada. It briefly summarizes the roots of Vision Zero and the current status of Vision Zero across Canada. It also provides a high-level review of Vision Zero and road safety frameworks from Canada and internationally. By using an injury-prevention approach based in public health theory, the paper provides information not only on Vision-Zero-specific implementation but will also address the contextual factors that impact these efforts, such as community readiness. Tools created by Parachute and links to other tools supplement the paper by providing useful resources that address the needs of stakeholders at all stages of their Vision Zero commitment.

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• Making a Vision Zero Commitment in Canada presentation template

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  Parachute has developed a customizable Powerpoint presentation for local champions to use with senior policy makers to move Vision Zero forward, whether they are in the pre-adoption or adoption stage.

  The presentation includes:

  • Background of Vision Zero and its importance
  • Tools for implementation
  • The stages of becoming a successful Vision Zero jurisdiction

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• Indicators of a Vision Zero community

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• Becoming a Vision Zero community

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• Vision Zero: A toolkit for road safety in the modern era (2017)

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  This article considers the applicability of Vision Zero to real-world traffic-infrastructure is looked at to show the toolkits available for policymakers to increase road safety in a local context.
  Applications of these principles to real-world traffic infrastructure are explored in order to show policymakers the toolkits available to increase road safety while taking into consideration local contexts.

• 9 Components of a Strong Vision Zero Commitment

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  This document lays out the essential elements that must be present for a community to take an effective Vision Zero approach.

• Ontario Traffic Council Vision Zero Guide

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  The Guide offers in-depth background information on the fundamentals of Vision Zero, the Safe System Approach, and Traffic Safety Culture, and leads municipalities through the steps required to develop, integrate, and implement their own Vision Zero programs.

Making a Vision Zero plan

These tools and resources will help you implement road safety initiatives focusing on road users, road infrastructure and vehicle for those in the process of making a Vision Zero plan.

• Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach: A Primer for Canada

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  Developed by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), the objectives of this primer are to establish clear definitions and principles for Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach, to promote greater understanding of these concepts, and to support the development, identification and sharing of Canadian best practices.

• Core Elements for Vision Zero Communities

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  This resource was designed to help communities set out their Vision Zero priorities, create meaningful results related to road safety, and compare their progress to best practices. The resource encourages leaders to focus on the most effective actions and will help to hold them accountable to the commitment made to Vision Zero.

• Sustainable and Safe: A Vision and Guidance for Zero Road Deaths

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  This report presents evidence on the impact of the Safe Systems approach on road safety. It helps guide the development of a strategy and action plan to reduce death and serious injury on roadways, as well as reach sustainability goals.

• Vision, Strategies, Action: Guidelines for an Effective Vision Zero Action Plan

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  The guidelines included in this document lay out key principles and aim to help communities move from the planning stage into the implementation of road safety priorities.

Evaluating a Vision Zero plan

If you already have implemented a Vision Zero plan, these tools provide a framework to evaluate your progress.

• Complete Streets Evaluation tool

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  The Complete Streets Evaluation Tool is comprised of 21 performance indicators that are aimed at helping municipalities assess the effectiveness of their Complete Streets projects. The indicators are organized within four broad goals: (1) active transportation, (2) level of safety, (3) level of service, (4) surrounding environment.

International resources

Read about Vision Zero in countries beyond Canada.

• Australia’s Safe System approach

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• The Netherland’s SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research

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• Safer Journeys New Zealand

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• Sweden’s Vision Zero initiative

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• The U.S. Vision Zero Network

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• The Vision Zero Handbook

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  This 1,200-page comprehensive book, released in late 2022, looks at the theory, technology and management for a zero casualty policy. Parachute wrote a chapter on Vision Zero in Canada, pages 507 to 552.

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Parachute produced reports

• Change for Good Roads – An intersectoral approach to urban road safety (2022)

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• Change the language, change perceptions: how we talk about road collisions (2021)

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  For many years, road safety advocates have argued it’s inaccurate to use the word “accident”to describe road collisions because that implies nothing could be done to prevent them. Thanks to advocacy by Parachute, the Canadian Press now has made this change to its Caps and Spelling style manual. Under the word “accident”it now reads: “avoid in reference to motor vehicles; prefer crash or collision.” A change in Canadian Press style means an enforceable change in language used in news coverage across the country.

  Read the report detailing how we achieved this policy change and our plans for future advocacy.

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• Factors that impact driving behaviour in young drivers and promising practices for young driver engagement (2022)

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  This report summarizes findings from a literature review and environmental scan on: factors that impact driving behaviour in young people; youth engagement and partnership strategies in health promotion and injury prevention programming; and tools and platforms used to engage young people in health promotion and injury prevention programming.

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