Truck of the Future – Ending Road Fatalities and Injuries with Driver Visibility Improvements

“Trucks, in general, represent 12 percent or so of the total road fatalities, but the interesting thing is the trucks themselves are only about 4 percent of the vehicles operating on the road.” – Kate Fillin-Yeh, Director of Strategy, the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Truck fatalities are high because drivers of large vehicles […]

Vision Zero Fleet Forum

The Vision Zero Fleet Forum (VZFF) is a fleet-specific, Vision Zero-focused conference to maximize knowledge-sharing and the latest research trends with TSR, our partners, and those in the industry. Held the same month as the UN’s Road Safety Week (May 8-14, 2022), which highlights the benefits of low-speed urban streets as the heart of any […]

Driver Attitudes Towards Vehicle Safety Technology White Paper – Early Sign Up

We are leading this first-of-its-kind research to learn how to better understand what makes drivers reluctant to adopt in-cab camera technology and identify what can be done to positively influence perceptions. Over 500 professional drivers were surveyed and questions focused on basic perceptions of, and implementation of, technology as well as actions by management.

2021 Inroads in Road Safety

We at Together at Safer Roads (TSR), along with our members and partners, are reimaging safer cities for all. All citizens—especially those that have historically been marginalized—deserve safe roads. Without them, they can’t access public healthcare, attend school, get to their jobs, or even to public parks to enjoy nature. Even during a pandemic, roadway […]

Two Decades of Action for Road Safety

The United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognized road safety as a prerequisite to healthy lives and well-being as well as making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020, officially proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in March 2010, sought to save millions of lives by: Building […]

A Case for Direct Vision – Vision Zero Cities Recap

At the 2021 Vision Zero Cities conference, “A Case for Direct Vision” was presented by David Braunstein, TSR President; Angie Byrne, Eric Englin, and Donald Fisher of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center; and Keith Kerman, Chief Fleet Officer, Deputy Commissioner, DCAS, City of New York. Trucks designed with poor visibility are a problem […]

AI and Fleet Safety with Humanising Autonomy

TSR Innovation Podcast Ep 2 Learn how Humanising Autonomy is working with machines to teach them how to read our visual signals and how they are partnering with automakers to embrace fully autonomous vehicles as they simultaneously innovate the driving experience with ADAS systems. Their proprietary detection models focus on pedestrians, cyclists, factory or construction […]

Honoring World Day of Remembrance (November 21) for Road Traffic Victims

According to Bloomberg News, the U.S. has among the industrialized world’s worst traffic safety outcomes, with almost 40,000 people dying on our roads every year with pedestrians dying at a rate two times higher than most other industrialized countries. As part of the World Day of Remembrance (WDR) for Road Traffic Victims—a global event to […]

The Safety of Movements with DERQ

TSR Innovation Podcast Ep 1 Did you know that over 40% of road crashes occur at intersections? In today’s inaugural Innovations in Road Safety podcast, we speak with DERQ co-founder and CEO Georges Aoude about the safety of movement. DERQ is a global MIT spinoff and Techstars alum based out of Dubai and Detroit. They […]

Distracted Driving – A Public Health Epidemic

A pedestrian is killed every two hours and injured every seven minutes somewhere in the U.S. due to distracted driving. Most drivers feel they can safely take their eyes off the road for 0-2 seconds, but a car can travel the length of a football field in 5 seconds at 55 MPH. Statistics like this […]

Together for Safer Roads’ 2021 Annual Meeting

In mid-September, we brought together members and partners to discuss our collective road safety work, explore opportunities to substantially improve road safety, and develop program partnerships to save lives. These “working sessions” included private and public sector experts presenting on a range of topics as well as Together for Safer Roads (TSR)’ Vision Fund grant […]

GEOTAB AND TOGETHER FOR SAFER ROADS JOIN FORCES TO RAISE AWARENESS AROUND SAFER DRIVING HABITS

Challenge drivers around the globe to help support safer communities by slowing down, leaving room and keeping vehicles in good working condition Toronto, ON – May 10, 2021 – With the United Nations’ 6th annual Global Road Safety Week taking place from May 17 to May 23, Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, and Together […]

Creating Safer Roads, Together

Together with Geotab, TSR is issuing a challenge to reduce speed during UN Global Road Safety Week, and beyond. If the number of speed-related incidents amongst Geotab-connected fleets is reduced by 1% during Global Road Safety Week, Geotab will...

How to Improve Road Safety & Support Vision Zero

Vision Zero aims to achieve a highway and roads system with no fatalities or serious injuries. Although it sounds like a lofty goal, technology and emerging data make it more reachable now than ever before. Below we will talk more about how to improve Road Safety and Support Vision Zero. At Together for Safer Roads […]

REPORT: Advancing Digital Best Practices for Fleet Operators

Every year, 1.35 million people are killed on the world’sroads. The coalition recognizes safer roads are a sharedresponsibility. TSR members are in a unique position tohelp. TSR members have spent decades and millions of dollarsimproving safe road outcomes. This results in actionable programsthat reduce risk and save lives. We believe that sharing these digital best […]

INITIATIVE: Safer Roads Studio (SRS) Network

A curated community for everyone from multinational corporations to entrepreneurs, committed to our mission through programming, networking, and learning. Partners: All TSR Members, Municipalities and the Public Sector, Economic Development Councils, Privatized – Infrastructure Operators, Urban Planners, NGO’s and...

INITIATIVE: Future Roads

New and innovative data-driven solutions, like advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, improve infrastructure and make everyday travel conditions safer for all road users, especially for the most vulnerable like pedestrians, bicyclists and micro-mobility users. We are helping to digitize...

INITIATIVE: Future Fleets

We champion technology innovations to solve the safety challenges of daily fleet operations that impact large vehicle operators and the people around them. Partners: TSR Core Program Members, Fleet Operators, OEM, Municipalities and the Public Sector, NGO’s and Startups

INITIATIVE: Multi-Channel Media Campaigns

We work in an exclusive partnership capacity with media giant iHeartMedia, America’s leading audio company reaching 9 out of 10 Americans every month. We amplify various shared, earned, and owned media campaigns, in regional and national campaigns, across key...

INITIATIVE: Vision Zero Partnerships

We develop strategic partnerships with cities to involve fleets and businesses in their plans to reach Vision Zero, an international movement that aims to reduce traffic deaths and life-changing injuries to zero, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for...
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