Vision Zero Update Portland Freight Committee May 6, 2021 - Enhanced streetlighting on SE Division Street at 85th Avenue

Vision Zero Update
Portland Freight Committee
May 6, 2021

                             Enhanced streetlighting on SE
                             Division Street at 85th Avenue

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Today
• Safe System approach +
  examples
• Latest crash data
• Current Vision Zero focus
  areas
• Dashboard
• Questions / Discussion

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Vision Zero = Safe System

                 Source: Towards Zero Foundation

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Air travel =
Safe System
•   Layers of redundancies
•   Learn from tragedies,
    make improvements over
    time
•   Pilots have awesome
    responsibility…but lots of
    help
•   We say plane “crash,” not
    “accident”

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Applying a Safe System
Instead of “who’s
fault,” we ask:
How do we prevent
this from happening
again?

        “That area has a high
  frequency of accidents.” –
  Alex Villanueva, Los Angeles
                County sheriff
                                 https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tiger-woods-car-crash-cause-set-to-be-revealed-report

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Tiger Wood’s vehicle may have
    saved his life
•   Top safety rating by IIHS
•   10 standard airbags, including one
    that deploys in the center of the
    vehicle as well as a driver-side knee
    airbag
•   Advanced driver assistance
    systems, including forward-collision
    alert avoidance, stability control,
    evasive steering technology and an
    interior camera that alerts the
    driver if they're falling asleep
•   New vehicle architecture built with
    a passenger compartment
    reinforced with high strength steel
    to provide rigidity in case of a crash

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A local example:
NE Cornfoot Road crash
•   Deadly crash on April 29 involving a
    Freightliner tractor with a box trailer
•   “High rate of speed,” per police
•   How can we reduce the probability
    of high-risk speeds there? Visibility
    issues associated with the street or
    the vehicles? Emergency responder
    access OK? Etc.
•   1995 model passenger vehicle and
    vehicle size mismatch – inherently
    higher risks

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What about street racing?
• Chronic safety & livability
  issue
• Engineering tools not a
  good option
• PBOT is a willing partner,
  but enforcement must be
  the primary mechanism to
  address the issue

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*Name not
released to
public

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Sharp drop in crashes during initial Covid-19 response

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Year-to-date
deaths by
mode

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Year-to-date deaths by jurisdiction
Jurisdiction      5/3/2017*      5/3/2018      5/3/2019      5/3/2020   5/3/2021
Local                  7             8             14            5        10
State                  3             5             5             7        13
County                 0             0             0             0         0
High Crash
                     80%            62%           68%           58%       48%
Network (%)

*2017 was the first year of Vision Zero Action Plan implementation

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Current Vision Zero
focus areas include:
•       Helping people see each other (and the road)
    •     Better lighting, slower speeds, intersection clearance, reflective
          pavement markings…
•       Safety at intersections
    •     Turn calming, leading pedestrian intervals, continental
          crosswalk markings, protected left turn signals…
•       Setting and designing for speeds more appropriate for
        urban areas
•       Automated enforcement expansion (it’s coming, really!)
•       Continuing to prioritize High Crash Network streets
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Freight is an important partner
•   Freight vehicle design
    opportunities
•   Ensuring operators are
    well-rested, unimpaired,
    and trained for urban
    driving
•   Identifying safety issues
    that PBOT may be able to
    help address

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New dashboard has latest data
•   High Crash Network safety
    improvements
•   Speed limit reductions
•   Fixed Speed Safety Cameras
•   Education & Outreach
•   Latest crashes
•   Updated quarterly

www.visionzeroportland.com

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Questions & discussion
Matt Kelly
Vision Zero specialist, PBOT
Matthew.Kelly@portlandoregon.gov

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