Services, Guides, and Information

About the Safe Routes to School program at the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

Information about the Portland Bureau of Transportation's (PBOT) Way to Go Plan, a data-informed transporatation demand management strategy. Plan ensures city focuses on effective and equitable outcomes, guiding work around improving mobility, removing burdens, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Portland Bureau of Transportation Vision Zero reports on deadly traffic crashes, patterns and trends, how the city responds to deadly traffic crashes, and how crash data works for each calendar year.

Full scholarships are available to Portland residents for "Portland Traffic & Transportation," a noncredit course at Portland State University sponsored by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT).

Portland's highest-crash streets and intersections in low-income communities and communities of color receive priority for investments in safety.

Portland’s Vision Zero Action Plan sets out specific, measurable actions to move toward zero traffic deaths or serious injuries on Portland streets.

A transportation-themed class with an emphasis on land use, mobility, social justice and racial equity. The fall 2023 class will be conducted in person in accordance with PSU. Class time will be used for presentations from guest speakers, activities and class discussion.

This update reflects the progress we’ve made and the challenges we’ve faced in the seven years since city council adopted the Vision Zero Action Plan in 2016, and sets the course for our work through 2025.

Full PDF downloads of the Portland Bureau of Transportation's (PBOT) Way to Go Plan and appendices. Learn more about this data-informed, decision-making framework on transportation demand management.

Order free Vision Zero materials from the Portland Bureau of Transportation to help educate family, friends, neighbors, your school, or your organization about Vision Zero, Portland's commitment to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries.

Answers to frequently asked questions about the Portland Bureau of Transportation's Safe Routes to School program.

You are key to helping the us end traffic violence on our streets.

We use equity data and traffic crash data to identify and prioritize investments.

In the past, a lot of traffic safety work focused on the individual behavior of road users. In contrast, Vision Zero’s Safe System approach considers how the people who design, build, and manage the transportation network can prioritize the lives and health of people using the system.  

Strategic priority areas of the Portland Bureau of Transportation's (PBOT) Way to Go Plan. Includes pricing, personal security, employer commute programs, financial incentives, right-of-way management, infrastructure activation, direct modal services, land use and development, and other information.