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Paper Title:
Vision Zero Requires
Five-Star Road Safety System
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Authors:
Lal Wadhwa
Abstract:
Vision Zero is aimed
at zero fatality or serious injury on our roads. It is a bold concept
and presents a challenge to planners, engineers, managers and policy
makers. The ramifications of this philosophy are far reaching. It
questions the very basis of the traditional economic evaluation
methods and the transportation system objectives. Conventional trade-off
between safety, mobility, and economics is no longer an option in
Vision Zero. All subsystems in road safety must be stretched to
their limits of capabilities and beyond. This entails vivid changes
in attitude, spectacular advances in technology as well as massive
investments. The implications of Vision Zero for road system infrastructure
are explored in this study. A concept of prescribing a rating to
the road infrastructure is advanced and a framework for determining
the rating is proposed. It is postulated that vision zero requires
a “five-star?road infrastructure.
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