A key component of transportation equity is equity in traffic safety. Safety for all road users is essential to meeting the goal of zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
Practitioners are developing data-driven approaches to examine and address traffic safety issues through an equity lens. These efforts can result in investments in communities where traffic safety has historically been underfunded. Work in traffic safety equity also creates new opportunities for partnership with stakeholders to improve safety for all road users.
Efforts to apply Safe System Approach principles and measures to improve traffic safety equity often move forward together. Transportation agencies are putting more emphasis in both areas, as demonstrated in case study examples linked below.