Street security efforts in Europe provide quite a few examples and success tales from which U.S. jurisdictions are studying. Within the newest Triple-I Government Trade, Mapfre USA President and CEO Jaime Tamayo sat down with Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan to debate these learnings from an insurance coverage perspective.
“In Europe, road-related fatalities are considerably decrease than within the U.S., and we wished to get a greater understanding as to why,” Tamayo mentioned. “We introduced collectively main consultants and policymakers from Europe and the U.S. in transportation, city planning, public well being, and expertise to debate methods during which we will enhance insurance policies, innovation, enforcement, and schooling round protected driving.”
By means of its charitable basis, Fundación Mafre, the Spain-based reinsurer is devoted to “Imaginative and prescient Zero” – a motion begun in Sweden in 1997 with a aim of eliminating site visitors fatalities and injury-sustaining crashes. In reference to exporting this effort to the US, Mapfre for greater than 20 years has sponsored a program for the Massachusetts Division of Transportation that consists of a fleet of automobiles that patrol important highways and thoroughfares within the state, serving to stranded motorists get again on the highway.
“This system has been an ideal success,” Tamayo mentioned, “protecting over 30 million miles of highway since its inception.”
Along with Massachusetts, Vision Zero has been taking hold in communities throughout the US, together with metropolitan areas reminiscent of New York Metropolis, Los Angeles, and Portland, Ore.
In Portland, a number of knowledge factors are serving to authorities officers higher perceive how you can cut back site visitors fatalities and accidents, together with a high percentage of pedestrian crashes occurring due to lengthy distances between marked crossings. Portland has taken the initiative, constructing “a system to guard pedestrians consists of frequent protected crossings, road lighting, a cultural acceptance of slower speeds and folks educated about how you can work together safely on the streets.”
In Imaginative and prescient Zero metropolis Hoboken, N.J., seven years have passed with no site visitors fatality, at the same time as site visitors deaths have reached a 40-year high throughout the nation.
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