Vision Zero in Norway

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter describes the adoption of Vision Zero in Norway and some of the impacts on transport safety policy that can be traced to it. These impacts concern the following: the demand for improved knowledge about the effects of road safety measures, the creation of a new forum for developing road safety policy, the adoption of quantified road safety targets and a system for management by objectives based on road safety indicators, the identification of roads suitable for conversion to motorways or to 2+1 roads based on the Swedish model, the revision of speed limit policy and the revision of standards for the design and use of guardrails. It is argued that the adoption of Vision Zero has had a major impact on road safety policy in Norway and may have contributed to speeding up the decline in the number of traffic fatalities and serious injuries after the year 2000.