The Road to Zero: Rethinking Transportation Safety

To help improve road transportation safety, Roads & Bridges has put together this eHandbook, which includes insight on:

Can Vision Zero Become a Reality? — Examples from the Ohio Turnpike and Greece's Attica Tollway demonstrate how safer infrastructure, technology, enforcement and driver education can bring the ambitious goal of zero roadway fatalities closer to reality.

How Iowa Cut Traffic Fatalities by Nearly 100 in One Year — Iowa reduced traffic fatalities from 357 in 2024 to 259 in 2025 by combining a Safe System approach with roadway improvements, driver education and improved post-crash response.

Conn. Teaches Safety with Automated Enforcement — Connecticut's automated work-zone speed enforcement pilot used highly visible technology, public education and a measured enforcement strategy to reduce excessive speeding by 50% or more at some locations and ultimately make the program permanent.

Tackling Safety on Cuatro Vientos Corridor — A $49.5 million overpass in Laredo, Texas, uses grade separation, pedestrian facilities, lighting, barriers and other safety-focused design elements to address an existing high-crash corridor while preparing it for future interstate and freight growth.