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Vision Zero is flawed, but we should harness its spirit to keep driving down deaths

Richard Allsop, Centre for Transport Studies
19 August 2016
Richard Allsop is emeritus professor of transport studies at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London.
Richard Allsop is emeritus professor of transport studies at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London.
Risk of death per hour spent using the roads 
versus corresponding risk in the rest of everyday life
Risk of death per hour spent using the roads versus corresponding risk in the rest of everyday life

 

In recent years there has been widespread talk of eliminating death and lasting injury from road use. But this risks distracting us from a more imminent challenge to our efforts to keep on reducing them.

As motorisation grew in higher-income countries such as Britain after 1950, the annual number of road deaths at first increased (peaking here in 1966 at 7,985), and then decreased as reduction in risk per vehicle-km outpaced the growth in vehicle-km driven. This experience is coming to be...

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