ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE VISION ZERO
LOS ANGELES
Vision Zero
provides the
framework for a
new way of doing
business in the City
of Los Angeles.
Engineering & Planning
Enforcement
Education & Outreach
Evaluation & Monitoring
Partnerships
Building from the Complete
Streets Design Guide of Mobility
Plan 2035, we will begin by
focusing on high priority
intersections and street segments
to increase the visibility of
those who are most vulnerable
on our streets. We will use the
opportunities during everyday
maintenance and roadway
work to make changes that
will increase predictability and
reduce the number of conflicts.
However, recognizing that we
will not be able to prevent every
collision, we must also design the
transportation system for speeds
that protect human life. We will
create a prioritized list of safety
projects citywide, matching costeffective, proven countermeasures
with specific crash profiles
for individual corridors and
intersections.
Collisions are often the result of
poor behavior, and enforcement
of traffic laws can mitigate the
consequences of collisions. Traffic
enforcement patrols will focus on
high crash locations and target
DUIs, distracted driving, not
yielding to persons in crosswalks
and other dangerous driving
behaviors that disproportionately
contribute to severe injury and
death. Enhanced enforcement
reporting statistics will assist in
directing safety efforts in high
injury areas including schools,
housing for seniors, people with
disabilities and disadvantaged
communities.
The impact of traffic deaths
touches people’s lives unlike
other issues, and is devastating
and life-changing for families
and communities. Vision Zero
provides the framing for the City
to proactively and meaningfully
partner with community
and neighborhood groups,
particularly those in areas
subject to high collision rates.
These groups can reinforce the
need for funding and programs
to improve safety at the
community-level.
We will continue to analyze
collision, public health, land use,
and an array of other data as
we build a Transportation and
Public Health Database. We
will evaluate the impact of our
engineering, enforcement, and
education efforts.
As we continue to identify
areas of the City in the most
need of safety improvements.
we will meaningfully engage
our community partners
as we work toward traffic
safety improvements at the
neighborhood level.
As we collect our data, we
will share it with the public
to increase transparency and
accountability.
Equity
The Vision Zero Initiative will
develop safety campaigns to
promote safe travel behavior and
increase awareness of our most
vulnerable users.
We will be mindful of
communities that are burdened
with both high collision incidence
and poor health outcomes, and
use data-driven methods, like the
High Injury Network, to ensure
areas of the City with the most
need are prioritized for safety
improvements.
Spotlight on Data-driven Safety Studies in Los Angeles
This is not the first datadriven effort to increase safety
in Los Angeles. Many other
organizations have taken a
hard look at the numbers
and provided suggestions for
improvement.
Los Angeles Walks, in its 2014
Report on the State of Walking
in L.A., mapped all of the
pedestrian-vehicle collisions
between 2003 and 2009 and
identified intersections with the
highest collision counts.
Students from the USC
Marshall School of Business,
in partnership with LADOT,
completed an award-winning
study of pedestrian- and bicyclerelated collisions in Los Angeles.
The report recommended
encouraging public transit,
adding additional infrastructure
for people on bikes, and
improving data collection when
collisions occur.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/
latrafficprojectusc/index.html
Recently, the Los Angeles Times
identified 817 intersections that
have relatively high rates of
pedestrian injuries and deaths
after analyzing more than
665,000 traffic collisions in
LA County from 2002 through
2013. The July 12, 2015 article
also included a webmap to view
the hotspot locations from the
collision an