Introduction

Efforts to keep U.S. roadways safe primarily rely on laws and their enforcement along with educational campaigns. This approach, however, falls far short of its objective as evidenced by nearly 40,000 roadway deaths and 2.7 million injuries annually. Moreover, the 19 million traffic stops per year associated with this approach create ongoing conflict between community members and their government and yield persistent concerns about racial and economic injustice.

Methods

This paper provides an analytic review of traditional approaches to roadway safety and an examination of inequities associated with conventional traffic law enforcement methods. The authors offer a viewpoint from their range of disciplines on the benefits of Safe Systems as an alternative approach that could make U.S. communities safer and more equitable.

Conclusions

By focusing on the design of the system rather than the behavior of the individual, the Safe Systems/Vision Zero approach makes crashes less likely and less injurious while reducing the burden on law enforcement and diminishing the potential for racially-charged conflict between the police and the public.

中文翻译：

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道路安全、设计与公平：范式转变

介绍

保持美国道路安全的努力主要依赖于法律及其执法以及教育活动。然而，这种方法远未达到其目标，每年近 40,000 人在道路上死亡和 270 万人受伤就证明了这一点。此外，与这种方法相关的每年 1,900 万次交通停车造成社区成员与其政府之间持续的冲突，并导致对种族和经济不公正的持续担忧。

方法

本文对道路安全的传统方法进行了分析回顾，并对与传统交通执法方法相关的不公平现象进行了检查。作者从他们的学科范围提供了关于安全系统作为一种替代方法的好处的观点，该方法可以使美国社区更安全、更公平。

结论

通过关注系统的设计而不是个人的行为，安全系统/零愿景方法降低了撞车的可能性和伤害，同时减轻了执法的负担，并减少了警察与种族冲突的可能性。公众。