THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH
SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH PRINCIPLES
4. Responsibility is shared: Everyone involved in transportation, from elected officials to street designers to everyday people traveling around Fort Worth, has a role to play in creating safer roads. 5. Safety is proactive: Rather than waiting for crashes to occur, transportation agencies should seek to proactively identify and address dangerous situations. 6. Redundancy is crucial: Redundancy means using a layered approach where multiple design treatments are used to reinforce safe behaviors. This way, if one part fails, people are still protected.
1. Death & severe injury is unacceptable: While minor incidents are almost inevitable, this plan focuses on preventing crashes that result in fatalities and severe injuries. 2. Humans make mistakes: Even the best drivers will inevitably make mistakes that can lead to a crash. How we design and operate our transportation system can ensure these mistakes don’t have life-altering impacts. 3. Humans are vulnerable: Human bodies can only withstand so much impact from a crash before death or severe injuries occur.
This Safety Action Plan is Fort Worth’s roadmap to reducing roadway deaths and severe injuries. It is grounded in the Safe System Approach, which aims to eliminate deaths and severe injuries by anticipating human mistakes and minimizing impacts on the human body when crashes do occur. The Safe System Approach is built around six principles and is backed by five elements.
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SAFE SYSTEM ELEMENTS
SAFE ROADS USERS
SAFE VEHICLES
1. Safe Road Users: Working towards a culture of safety requires safe
4. Safe Roads: Safer roads come from providing physical separation (like separated bike lanes and sidewalks) as well as designing to accommodate needs.
responsible driving and behavior by people who use the transportation system, as well as a network of City and civic partners who work together to address safety concerns.
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5. Post Crash Safety: A system-wide approach means working towards safety even after a crash has occurred. This comes from improving emergency response, traffic incident reporting, and traffic management.
POST-CRASH CARE
SAFE SPEEDS
2. Safe Vehicles: Making vehicles safer can be done through advanced driver assistance systems and by ensuring future technology prioritizes vulnerable roadway users.
SAFE ROADS
3. Safe Speeds: Slower vehicle speeds increase visibility and reaction times for drivers and reduce impact forces when a crash occurs. Moving towards safe speeds can be done through speed limit reduction, traffic calming, and roadway design.
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