Navigating the Journey to Safer Communities

 

Key Findings for the Safe System Approach
March 12, 2024 • 1 minute read
Cover image for ITE Journal, The Journey to Safer Communities issue.

Navigating the Journey to Safer Communities

 

Key Findings for the Safe System Approach
March 12, 2024 • 1 minute read
What are the game-changers in safety that are moving the needle, and what has deterred us from using some of them? In this month’s ITE Journal, check out some stirring key findings from the TRB Safe System roundtable, featuring one of our national safety experts, Meghan Mitman. In collaboration with Rachael Thompson Panik from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Leah Shahum from the Vision Zero Network, see how they weave paradigm-shifting frameworks into day-to-day efforts.

share this article

Explore More

Announcing Safety Multipliers

Announcing Safety Multipliers

What do San Francisco’s Van Ness BRT, New York’s congestion pricing, and Arlington’s intersection program have in common? Each pulls all three Safe System levers at once. We call that pattern a safety multiplier.

Evacuation Impact Assessment Checklist

Evacuation Impact Assessment Checklist

Recent California decisions and the Attorney General’s 2022 guidance have raised expectations for how CEQA documents address evacuation. Our Evacuation Impact Assessment Checklist is a qualitative analysis tool that helps teams organize evidence, screen for potential impacts, and reach a defensible conclusion faster, so time and effort can shift from extensive quantification to identifying mitigation and evacuation improvements.

Rebecca Sanders Joins Fehr & Peers

Rebecca Sanders Joins Fehr & Peers

Welcome Rebecca Sanders to our team. With nearly 20 years of safety research and consulting experience, Rebecca helps agencies identify risk earlier, prioritize the right countermeasures, and advance a Safe System approach for people walking, biking, and using micromobility.