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• Brantford, ON
• British Columbia
• Burnaby, BC
• Calgary, AB
• Chatham-Kent, ON
• Coquitlam, BC
• Delta, BC
• Devon, AB
• Drummondville, QC
• Durham Region, ON
• Edmonton, AB
• Fort Saskatchewan, AB
• Gatineau, QC
• Guelph, ON
• Halifax, NS
• Hamilton, ON
• Kamloops, BC
• Kelowna, BC
• Kingston, ON
• Kitchener, ON
• Lacombe County, AB
• Lethbridge, AB
• London, ON
• Manitoba
• Markham, ON
• Middlesex Centre, ON
• Mississauga, ON
• Montreal, QC
• Niagara Region, ON
• North Bay, ON
• Ottawa, ON
• Peterborough, ON
• Quebec
• Regina, SK
• Region of Peel, ON
• Saanich, BC
• St. Albert, AB
• Strathcona County, AB
• Surrey, BC
• Temiskaming Shores, ON
• Toronto, ON
• Vancouver, BC
• Victoria, BC
• Windsor, ON
• Winnipeg, MB
• York Region, ON

The City of Brantford adopted the Vision Zero initiative in 2018. Since then, the City of Brantford have created Vision Zero: The City of Brantford’s Road Safety Plan (2021-2026) which aims to address a number of goals and priorities for the city, including promoting safe, healthy, and age-friendly built environments. This five year plan outlines the projects the City of Brantford and community partners have committed to delivering to achieve the Vision Zero goals. The plan also focuses on three pillars to emphasize road safety: engineering, education, and enforcement.

Adopted in January 2016.

In 2016, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to adopt Vision Zero. To re-affirm their commitment to road safety, the province released Moving to Vision Zero: Road Safety Strategy Update and Showcase of Innovation in British Columbia. This strategy aligns with Canada’s Road Safety Strategy and officially adopts Vision Zero, with a goal of zero fatalities or serious injuries and the safest roads in North America by 2020.

Connecting Burnaby: Burnaby’s Transportation Plan was approved by Council on December 13^th 2021. This plan will guide transportation planning and policy decision making in Burnaby for the next 30 years. Much of the plan is about rethinking how people move throughout the city. The plan is grounded in the idea of climate action, with an emphasis on encouraging more sustainable modes of transportation in Burnaby. This updated plan introduced measurable targets that they aim to achieve by 2050, with a core target of Vision Zero: a 100 per cent reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

The City of Calgary’s movement toward Vision Zero began in the Calgary Safer Mobility Plan, 2019-2023, introduced in 2018. Calgary’s updated Safer Mobility Plan (2024-2028) implements Vision Zero through the Safe System Approach and six Es of mobility safety, aiming to reduce major injuries and fatalities by 25 per cent over five years.

The council of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent adopted the Road Safety Action Plan on Nov. 6, 2023. The plan is built around the Safe System Approach and the Safe Systems Pyramid. The plan is guided by principles that highlight a shared responsibility for road safety, multi-level collaboration and the importance of data-driven and equity-centred decision-making. Following these principles, the road safety program identifies five emphasis areas and 24 actionable items.

The City of Coquitlam endorsed Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach in May 2023, announcing the development of a Road Safety Strategy to be integrated in the updated Strategic Transportation Plan. Preliminary reports presented to council suggest the plan will aim to create a people-focused transportation system that prioritizes the sustainable and innovative movement of complete and connected communities, ensuring safe, accessible, equitable and reliable transportation for all.

Delta’s city council approved the creation of a Vision Zero Strategy in October 2020. Delta’s Vision Zero Strategy (2025-2030) was adopted four years later, in September 2024. Using the Safe System Approach, the city aims to reduce deaths and serious injuries by at least five per cent annually, reaching a 25-per-cent reduction by 2030.

The Town of Devon’s Traffic Safety Plan 2022-2024 was endorsed by council in January 2022. The plan is guided by the Alberta Traffic Safety Plan Calendar and the Safe System Approach. The vision is to eliminate all serious injury and fatal road collisions on community roads to create a safe and healthy community.

Drummondville adopted its Safe Mobility Policy in 2019 with the release of the city’s Sustainable Mobility Plan 2020-2024. The Plan de mobilité durable 2020-2040 (PMD) is grounded in the principles of accessibility, safety, comfort and efficiency, aiming to enhance the quality of life of all residents. Central to the PMD is the adoption of Vision Zero, which seeks to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in the City of Drummondville by 2040.

Adopted in April 2019.

Durham Region first initiated their Strategic Road Safety Action Plan Project in 2017. Durham collaborated with evidence-based action plan. The goal for the first five years (2019-2023) is to reduce fatal and injury collisions by at least 10 per cent. Regional Council approved the Strategic Road Safety Action Plan in 2019, and Durham held its official launch of Durham Vision Zero in May 2019.

First Canadian city to adopt Vision Zero, in September 2015.

When more than 8,200 residents were injured and/or killed on the Edmonton roads in 2006, the City developed the first municipal Office of Traffic Safety in North America and has continuously taken steps to improve road safety. In September 2015, City council approved Edmonton’s Road Safety Strategy 2016-2020, making Edmonton the first Canadian city to officially adopt Vision Zero.

In 2021, a Safe Mobility Strategy for 2021-2025 was developed to achieve Vision Zero in Edmonton. Edmonton has seen drastic decreases in fatalities and injuries since they began Vision Zero efforts in 2015.

Adopted in April 2019.

Fort Saskatchewan originally committed to Vision Zero in 2018, and introduced a road safety plan affirming their commitment to Vision Zero in 2019. While the plan supports Alberta’s traffic safety strategies, the Capital Region Intersection Safety Partnership joint vision, Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025 and RCMP Traffic Services Safety Strategic Plans, it is designed to meet the unique needs of Fort Saskatchewan.

The City of Gatineau Police Service first endorsed a three-year road safety strategy in 2015 and officially implemented the Approche Intégrée en Sécurité Routiére in 2019. The strategy focused on young, vulnerable road users, operators of heavy vehicles, construction workers, older adults and all other road users. The strategy recognizes collision factors impacting these populations, such as reckless and impaired driving, street layouts and road sharing. To act on those factors, interventions were based on four of the Es of mobility safety: Engineering, Education, Enforcement and Engagement.

In May 2022, the City of Guelph published the Road Safety: City of Guelph Transportation Master Plan. With this plan, the city committed to achieving the Vision Zero target using the Safe System Approach. In March 2025, the Vision Zero Action Plan for Safe Streets (2025) was officially adopted, building upon the previous Community Road Safety Strategy. Guided by the Safe System Approach and Safe Systems Pyramid, the Vision Zero Action Plan outlines 68 actions across eight focus areas aimed at eliminating all traffic-related deaths and serious injuries.

In 2024, Halifax adopted its second Road Safety Strategy, with the goal of maintaining a consistent downward trend in the rate of fatal and serious injury collisions per 100,000 residents by 2038. The strategy aims to achieve Vision Zero through engineering, education, engagement, and enforcement. It applies the Safe System Approach, and the priority areas are intersections, safe speeds, vulnerable road users, safe schools, and data management.

Adopted in February 2019.
Hamilton has officially adopted a Vision-Zero-oriented road safety plan as part of its overall Strategic Road Safety Program (SRSP). The SRSP aims to “eliminate incidents that result in injury or fatality” and was re-established in August 2014 with Vision Zero in mind. Hamilton’s Vision Zero Action Plan 2019-2025 follows five of the Es of mobility safety, with updates anticipated in 2026.

On October 31, 2023, The City of Kamloops Council voted to adopt the Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan. The strategy is composed of 27 individual strategies in five emphases areas that aim to improve the safety for all road users in Kamloops, guiding everything from road design and traffic speeds, to signalization and sidewalks, while consideraing operational requirements from all partners, such as emergency vehicle access, snow removal, asphalt integrity, accessibility, school zones, and more.

The City of Kelowna released their Safe Mobility Action Plan in January 2026. The plan applies the Safe System Approach to achieve the overall goal of achieving zero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in Kelowna. The 29 actions outlined in the plan are categorized into four action areas:

• Build safe intersections for all
• Protect vulnerable road users
• Design for safe speeds
• Create a positive safety culture with our partners

Kingston’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan (RSP) was received and approved by Council in September 2019. The RSP provides identifies seven emphasis areas resulting from collision data analysis and supported by the priorities of the technical road safety advisory group and of the public. These areas are: intersections, distracted driving, aggressive driving, impaired driving, pedestrians, cyclists, young demographic.

In 2020, the City of Kitchener began efforts to build a Vision Zero plan for 2022-2025. The plan has been built off the community feedback from meetings with several stakeholders and community residents and has three main areas of focus: vulnerable street users (including school children, seniors, pedestrians, and others); high-risk locations (including school zones, residential zones, and hot spots); and high-risk driving (including aggressive driving, distracted driving, and speeding).

Lacombe County has used Vision Zero principles to guide its road safety strategy and Community Peace Officer Program since 2020. The Traffic Safety Plan 2023-2026 was adopted by council in November 2023, making Lacombe County one of the first municipalities in Alberta to formally adopt Vision Zero. Guided by the Safe System Approach and five of the Es of mobility safety (Engineering, Education, Enforcement, Engagement and Evaluation), the county aims to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in the jurisdiction.

The City of Lethbridge adopted the Transportation Safety Plan in October 2020, with a vision of moving toward zero transportation-related deaths and serious injuries. The city aims to reach zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2040, with an interim target of a 50-per cent-reduction by 2030.

The plan is built on the Safe System Approach and guided by four principles: sustainability, adaptability, fostering a positive culture and equitability.

In May 2017, the City of London’s Municipal Council formally adopted Vision Zero. The principles were embedded in the implementation of the 2014-2019 London Road Safety Strategy.

In July 2025, the city published a new City of London Mobility Master Plan to inform road safety and safe mobility from 2025 to 2050. The new plan outlines five guiding principles: environmentally sustainable; financially sustainable; equitable; healthy and safe; and integrated, connected and efficient.

Adopted in September 2017.

Manitoba defined their commitment to Vision Zero in the Manitoba Road Safety Plan 2017-2020: the Road To Zero. Their approach is outlined as “Towards Zero” rather than “Vision Zero” and the plan states, “Towards Zero maintains that while not all types of crashes may be prevented, traffic deaths and severe injuries are preventable.”

The City of Markham initiated the development of their Vision Zero Road Safety Plan in May 2024. Following several stakeholder engagement session and public consultations, the plan was adopted by council in February 2026. Markham’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan follows the Safe System Approach and sets a goal to reduce fatal and serious injury collisions by at least 10 per cent within five years and a 10-per-cent reduction in collisions involving vulnerable road users.

Middlesex Centre endorsed Vision Zero in 2020 with the initiation of their Vision Zero Campaign. Their first campaign introduced community safety zones, which reduced speed limits to 40 km/h in residential zones, installed additional speed radar technology and launched the “Respect the Limit” lawn sign campaign. The campaign aligns with various priorities of the municipality’s strategic plan, including those under Sustainable Infrastructure and Services as well as Responsible Municipal Government.

The City of Mississauga committed to Vision Zero in 2018 through a Council-approved motion. Mississauga City Council also passed a resolution to adopt Vision Zero and work towards a goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries as a result of collisions on city streets. The City’s pledge to achieve Vision Zero was further strengthened through the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) approved in 2019. This led to the development of the Vision Zero Action Plan which provides city staff with actions they can apply to their current and ongoing projects so that they contribute to the Vision Zero goal of eliminating fatalities and serious injuries in the transportation system.

Adopted in September 2016.

Elected City Officials in Montreal launched a Vision Zero initiative for the first time in 2016, which reinstated the road safety content from their 2008 Transportation Plan. This was the city’s first step towards a concrete Vision Zero action plan, which then officially launched in 2018.

Building on the 2022 to 2024 action plan, Montréal’s third Vision Zero Action Plan (2025-2027) renews the city’s commitment to eliminating all traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries by 2040, with an interim goal of a 50-per-cent reduction by 2030.

Niagara Region first endorsed the adoption of Vision Zero in 2019. The Niagara Region Road Safety Strategic Plan, released in July 2025, has seven emphasis areas; intersections, distracted and aggressive driving, vulnerable road users, young and new drivers, rural roads, commercial vehicles and impaired driving. It includes 43 countermeasures that mainly fall under the categories of engineering, enforcement and educational interventions.

The City of North Bay began developing the City of North Bay Road Safety Strategy (2025-2029) in 2023 in response to the high burden of motor vehicle collisions, which result in life-changing injuries and significant economic consequences. The city aims to reduce the number of serious and fatal motor vehicle collisions by at least 15 per cent within five years.

The strategy adopts the Safe System Approach and focuses on collaboration, engineering, enforcement, education and public engagement.

In 2019 the city created the 2020-2024 Road Safety Action Plan, built on the success of the previous plan. The plan is guided by the Safe System Approach with the theme of “Think Safety, Act Safely” and focuses efforts and resources where they are needed most to have the greatest impact on reducing collisions resulting in serious injury or death. This plan outlines a short-term goal of achieving a 20-per-cent reduction in the average annual rate of fatal and major injury collisions by 2024 and longer-term goal of zero traffic related fatalities by 2035.

In January 2024, the City of Peterborough endorsed a new Transportation Master Plan, which includes the Road Safety Strategy. The target of the Road Safety Strategy is to reduce traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries by 50 per cent over the next 10 years, to achieve a 0.5 per cent Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) ratio by 2031. The city has adopted the Safe System Approach and integrates five of the Es of mobility safety: Engineering, Enforcement, Education, Evaluation and Engagement.

The Sûreté du Québec, announced in August, 2023 that it will embark on a five-year plan to increase road safety based on Vision Zero. The new plan outlines 27 measures to increase the safety of roads, specifically in vulnerable locations, such as school zones and construction sites. The changes will include reduced speed limits in some areas, improved signage, increased photo radar, and increased requirements for Commercial A trucking licenses.

The City of Regina’s five-year Vision Zero Road Safety Framework (2024-2028) was approved by council in 2024 with a target of reducing Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) collisions by at least 10 per cent over the next five years. Regina’s strategy employs the Safe System Approach to address five key areas of concern: intersection collisions, vulnerable road users, aggressive driving, distracted driving and impaired driving.

Adopted in December 2017.

The Region of Peel Council adopted the Vision Zero framework in 2017, planning to bring a strategic plan to Council in 2018. In 2018, Peel’s Vision Zero Road Safety Strategic Plan 2018-2022 was formally approved. The plan is fully committed to working towards zero fatal and injury collisions for all road users.

In February 2022 Council adopted Vision Zero and they directed staff to develop an action plan in alignment with Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach. Formally adopted in October 2024, Saanich’s comprehensive Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2029 prioritizes safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all users with a long-term vision of eliminating all traffic-related deaths and serious injuries. The plan outlines a target of reducing fatal and serious injury collisions by 50 per cent by 2030.

Adopted in September 2018.

In 2018, St. Albert formally adopted Vision Zero in their road safety planning, through the development of a Transportation Safety Plan. In St. Albert’s Transportation Safety Plan 2018-2025, the City explicitly references the goal of elimination of fatalities and major injuries within the transportation system.

In 2014, Strathcona County published its Traffic Safety Strategic Plan 2020 (TSSP) which was guided by five of the Es of mobility safety. In 2022, Strathcona County released their updated Integrated Transportation Master Plan 2022. Within this document, the county outlines their commitment to updating the TSSP every 10 years to ensure road safety policies and strategies address current safety trends and apply these strategies within Strathcona County.

Adopted in January 2019.

Surrey worked with and consulted partners and agencies to develop their Vision Zero Plan. The City held stakeholder sessions, conducted market research and solicited community opinions and residents’ feedback. City Council approved the plan in 2019, with a goal of a minimum 15 per cent reduction in collisions that result in deaths and serious injuries within five years.

In September 2024, the City of Temiskaming Shores committed to eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. Their Vision Zero Policy, guided by the Ontario Traffic Council (OTC) Vision Zero Guide, follows the Safe System Approach. The policy serves as a guide for decision making around city design and layout and does not provide timelines or quantifiable targets. As a small jurisdiction, the city seeks to begin with the implementation of small-scale infrastructure improvements in high-risk areas.

Adopted in July 2016. Vision Zero 2.0 released in March 2019.

The City of Toronto introduced their Vision Zero Road Safety Plan (2017-2021) in 2016, after two years of development with around 12 partner agencies and approval from Toronto City Council. In 2019, Toronto City Council approved Vision Zero 2.0, which represents a renewed commitment to the Vision Zero approach and an updated focus on efforts to achieve road safety goals.

Adopted December 2016.

The Moving Towards Zero Safety Action Plan was introduced in 2016. Vision Zero is also cited in and supported by Vancouver’s Transportation 2040 Plan, which sets out infrastructure improvements and policy suggestions to enhance road safety for different types of road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists. A mixture of long-term and short-term policy directions have been identified to support Vision Zero in Vancouver.

In 2025, Vancouver City Council passed a motion to review and update the 2016 Moving Towards Zero Safety Action Plan, which will be developed throughout 2026.

The City of Victoria adopted Vision Zero in 2019 as part of its GoVictoria: Sustainable Mobility Strategy. Victoria is striving to maintain zero annual traffic fatalities and serious injuries, while also reducing average vehicle kilometres travelled per household by 20 per cent and vehicle ownership by 30 per cent from 2017 levels.

Windsor’s Vision Zero Action Plan was approved by Council on January 15, 2024. The overall goal of the Vision Zero Plan is the elimination of fatal and major injury collisions on streets under the jurisdiction of the City of Windsor within 15 years of adoption of the Vision Zero Action Plan.

On July 21, 2022, City Council approved the Winnipeg Road Safety Strategic Action Plan, which will serve as a roadmap for implementing both short-term solutions and long-term investments to ensure the city is doing its part in preventing serious injury and death on our roads. The plan consists of 67 actions to help Winnipeg reach its goal of a 20-per-cent reduction in fatal and serious injury collisions over the next five years, with a long-term vision of a transportation system that allows people of all ages and abilities to safely move around without experiencing death or serious injury.

York Region’s Vision Zero Traveller Safety Plan 2024-2028 on was approved by the Regional Council on March 21, 2024, with the goal of improving road safety and reducing traffic-related fatalities and injuries across the region by 10% over the next 5 years. The plan applies a Safe Systems Approach and was made in collaboration with local cities, towns, various partners, stakeholders, and residents. The plan identifies short and long-term solutions, emphasizing 5 key areas where countermeasures will have the greatest impact on road safety:

• Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
• Intersections
• Aggressive Driving
• Distracted Driving
• Impaired Driving