Vision Zero: Eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries

Program
Through the Vision Zero program, Portland Bureau of Transportation and our partners are working to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets.
Vision Zero

Featured content

Adults and caregivers — one wearing a reflective Vision Zero safety vest — walk ahead of and behind a group of elementary students.

About Vision Zero

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How we are making streets safe through Vision Zero

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Subscribe to Vision Zero emails

Map of Portland noting where 2023 fatal crashes occurred and the first names of victims, where available. If names are known and publicly released, the first name of traffic death victims are placed in the approximate crash locations on the map. If names are not known and/or publicly released, a white dot marks the approximate place where a traffic death occurred. The illustrated information is based on preliminary data and subject to change. Source: Portland Police Bureau.

Annual Deadly Traffic Crash Report

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Portland Vision Zero Action Plan Update 2023-25

Two elementary school aged girls walk across a crosswalk with a woman and a black dog on a sunny day.

Annual Vision Zero Action Plan Progress Report

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Vision Zero’s Safe System approach

A sign reading "CAUTION High Crash Intersection SLOW DOWN" is posted ahead of one of the high crash intersections on 122nd Avenue. Photo by PBOT.

High Crash Network streets and intersections

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Top contributing factors to traffic deaths

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Vision Zero data

A map highlighting Vision Zero projects in Portland, Oregon.

Guide to the Vision Zero Dashboard

A person bicycling in the green protected bike lane, adjacent to a yellow and black bus platform and red Rose Lane for buses on SE Hawthorne Boulevard, east of Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.

Evaluating traffic safety projects

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Speed and intersection safety cameras

This photo shows an electronic speed reader board and the speed limit

How to resolve a safety camera citation

Updating speed limit signs on a Portland street.

Speed limits

Variable message sign protected by orange and white cones placed on the side of a four lane street with the message "Traffic Death 11/18/19" displayed.

Deadly traffic crash response

A pile of white and orange Vision Zero pins.

Request free Vision Zero pins, stickers, brochures, and fliers

A photo of two SLOW DOWN Vision Zero yard signs in a green lawn.

Pick up a free Vision Zero yard sign at the Portland Building

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Personal safety on our streets

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Take the Vision Zero pledge

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Report non-urgent traffic safety concerns

Contact

PBOT Vision Zero

visionzero@portlandoregon.gov
phone number311

Related offices, programs, and projects

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Transportation

Walking, biking, transit

Walking, Biking, Transit, and Transportation Safety

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Safe Routes to School

Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Bicycle Advisory Committee

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PBOT Bureau & Budget Advisory Committee (BBAC)

Events

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2024

Each year, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims honors those who have been killed and injured on roads around the globe—1.35 million people each year worldwide. This year, World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims is Sunday, November 17.

Community Event
A floral memorial for a fatal traffic victim in the medium of a two-way street in front of a crosswalk.
More events

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