What is Safe Streets for All?
Safe Streets for All is a program to prevent deaths and serious injuries on the nation’s roadways while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.[1]
What is the Safe System Approach?
To prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries, Union County will use the Safe Systems Approach and help develop a holistic, well-defined strategy to mitigate roadway safety risks for all residents.
In the Safe System Approach, eliminating fatalities and severe injuries for all roadway users is the top priority. It is a way to make roads safer by building several layers of protection to prevent crashes and reduce serious injuries and deaths if they do happen. This method, widely used in the transportation field, treats safety as something shared by everyone involved—drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, road designers, transportation providers, and policymakers.
The approach not only aims to lower the number of crashes but also focuses on preventing the most severe ones. It recognizes that people make mistakes while driving, walking, or biking and works to prevent these mistakes from causing death and serious injury. By identifying and fixing gaps in the transportation network, either through changes in road design or policy updates, the Safe System Approach aims to create safer streets for all.
To learn more about the Safe Systems Approach, visit the USDOT website.
Safe System Approach
Promoting safe and responsible driving and behavior for everyone using the roads and creating conditions that put the safety of all road users first, including those who walk, bike, drive, use public transit, or travel in other ways.
Increasing the availability of vehicle systems and features that reduce the chances of crashes and lessen the impact on both people inside and outside the vehicle.
Encouraging safer speeds on all roads by combining thoughtful and fair road designs that fit the area, setting appropriate speed limits, providing targeted education, running outreach campaigns, and enforcing speed rules. This approach aims to create safer conditions for everyone using the roads.
Designing roads to reduce the impact of human mistakes, encouraging safer behaviors, and making travel safer for the most vulnerable users
Improving crash survival rates by providing quick access to emergency medical care, ensuring a safe environment for first responders, and preventing additional crashes through strong traffic management practices.