Community and Multisector Partner Engagement in US Vision Zero Plan Development.

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• Alternative Title:
  Injury Prevention : Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2025, v. 31, no. 1: Community and Multisector Partner Engagement in US Vision Zero Plan Development.
• Journal Article:
  Injury Prevention : Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
• Personal Author:
  Greer, Sylvia ; Combs, Tabitha ; Naumann, Rebecca B. ; Keefe, Elyse ; LaJeunesse, Seth ; Evenson, Kelly R.
• Description:
  Vision Zero aims to eliminate serious and fatal road injuries using a Safe System approach. Safe System principles establish that safety is a shared responsibility; this involves both multisector partners and community engagement. This descriptive study explored multisector partners and community engagement in the development of municipal Vision Zero plans.
  
  We reviewed all first edition Vision Zero plans published by US municipalities from 2014 to 2022. Using a structured coding tool, we abstracted partner involvement and community engagement strategies used in the development of Vision Zero plans.
  
  We identified, reviewed and abstracted 64 plans. The average number of partner groups per plan was 11.5 (12.0 for municipalities with a population ≥150 000; 10.1 for municipalities <150 000) and was higher for later plans (11.9 for plans published 2019-2022; 10.0 for plans published 2014-2018). Common partner groups engaged in the plan were law enforcement (85.9% of plans), local transportation planning (78.3%), mayor/city council/city manager (78.1%), engineering/public works (78.1%) and schools (73.4%). Community engagement strategies were reported in 71.9% of the plans and were more frequent among municipalities with a population ≥150 000 (76.1%) compared with a population <150 000 (61.1%), and in those with more recent plans (82.1%) versus earlier ones (56.0%). The most common community engagement strategies were public meetings, online surveys and map mark-ups.
  
  These findings highlight the extent to which Vision Zero plans were aligned with core Safe System tenets regarding diverse partner involvement and community engagement. Plan developers should consider the translation of Safe System principles in Vision Zero plan development.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Community Participation
  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Accident Prevention
• Keywords:
  • Safe System
  • road safety
  • collaboration
  • policies
  • transportation planning
  • COVID-19 pandemic
• Source:
  Injury Prevention : Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2025, v. 31, no. 1
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045148
• ISSN:
  1353-8047 ; 1475-5785
• Pubmed ID:
  39214686
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11830399
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  R49 CE001495/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE002479/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003092/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  60-65 (14 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262034/cdc_262034_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 128.89 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0810443ad42f8e507517d32b505b211627078643703672f6644eafaed29e6e471e40026d33e188fdefe9a3b0f80101f0e6b9fb5d63ef723169b16d9b8dfc476a