Gulfton — How Technology and Partnerships Paved the Way for Vision Zero Success

Hillcroft Avenue is a main thoroughfare in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood. It featured a crash rate twice the state average compared to similar urban roadways – often involving vehicles colliding with pedestrians and cyclists with severe or fatal results. Together for Safer Roads (TSR) partnered with the City of Houston and Houston Mayor Turner’s Complete Communities […]

2022 Annual Meeting

We have always known that road safety doesn’t happen in a vacuum – it takes partnerships and professionals dedicated to making roads safe for ALL users. And as a global NGO dedicated to equity and road safety, we’ve been leveraging private-sector technology, data, and expertise to prevent traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities worldwide for over […]

4 Reasons You Should Stop Calling Vehicle Crashes “Accidents”

A group of non-profit, governmental, and business leaders are encouraging people to stop using the word “accident" when referring to a car crash, saying that it detracts from our own empowerment and responsibility to make the roads a safer...

Gulfton’s Journey to Complete Community and Life

At SXSW in 2022, we were part of a panel discussion called, “Gulfton’s Journey to Complete Community and Life.” Additional panelists included representatives from the City of Houston, ABinBev, and Connect Community. Road traffic deaths in the United States surged to 31,720 in 2021 and the problem is most severe in poverty-struck communities like Gulfton, a […]

Strong Community, Safe Roads – Concordia Lexington Summit

We were a Lead Programming Partner for Concordia’s inaugural, U.S.-focused, Lexington Summit which took place April 7-8, 2022. Having taken place in-person* and virtually, the Summit convened a variety of voices to advance civil discourse and understanding between the different socio-economic worlds present in the U.S. Impactful partnerships were created that, not only addressed drivers […]

Ending Road Fatalities and Injuries with Driver Visibility Improvements

Our Global Leadership Council for Fleet Safety, a brain trust of the best and brightest fleet operators committed to helping small and midsize fleets, defined a shared problem—vulnerable road users in drivers’ blind spots (or zones). We then helped create an innovative technology solution known as “Truck of the Future” for aftermarket vehicles through our Safer Roads […]

2022 Vision Zero Fleet Forum

Thank you to all our panelists, moderators, and keynote speakers that made our 2022 Global Vision Zero Fleet Forum possible. We could not have done this without your expertise and time. And thank you to our co-presenter, City of New York’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services, and to our sponsors, AB InBev, Lytx, Interstate Waste […]

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

We are dedicated to Goal 3, Section 6 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a group of 17 goals for building a sustainable future by 2030. Goal 3, Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, Section 6 states “By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from […]

A Case for Direct Vision – Vision Zero Cities Recap

At the 2021 Vision Zero Cities conference, “A Case for Direct Vision” for cab design 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 […]

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...
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