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DRCOG ties safety targets to Vision Zero: goals of zero fatalities by 2040, zero serious injuries by 2045
Summary
DRCOG staff presented annual safety performance measures that adopt a Vision Zero projection and five‑year rolling averages. The agency set short‑term targets for 2026 based on three years of observed data plus two projected years and reviewed completed and planned actions to support the targets.
Carolyn, a DRCOG staff member, described the region’s approach to federal safety performance measures and how DRCOG sets short‑term targets aligned with its Vision Zero (referred to in meeting materials as Vision 0) commitment. She said DRCOG draws a trend line from recent data to the aspirational zero outcome and then calculates a five‑year rolling average to set the next short‑term target.
Carolyn summarized the five safety performance measures DRCOG tracks (number of fatalities, number of serious injuries, number of nonmotorized fatalities and serious injuries, and rates of fatalities and serious injuries per 100,000,000…
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