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The Road to Zero Coalition (RTZ), an initiative of the National Safety Council in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation and transportation safety stakeholders, is the nation’s largest traffic safety alliance, with the goal of ending roadway deaths in the United States by 2050.
Since its establishment in 2016, Coalition members have represented a variety of critical voices in traffic safety, including professional engineering and planning organizations; public sector organizations; safety advocates; vehicle manufacturers; technology developers; public health, emergency medical and trauma organizations; and law enforcement and judicial system representatives.
RTZ promotes the Safe System Approach to preventing roadway deaths, which recognizes that all of the following factors are necessary to save lives: Safer People, Safer Vehicles, Safer Speeds, Safer Roads, and Post-Crash Care. In addition, RTZ’s work is guided by the following Safe System principles:
● Death and serious injuries are unacceptable
● Humans make mistakes
● Humans are vulnerable
● Responsibility is shared
● Safety is proactive
● Redundancy is crucial
Massive Hazards: New RTZ Report on Light Trucks
RTZ has released Massive Hazards: How Bigger, Heavier Light Trucks Endanger Lives on American Roads. Featuring contributions from transportation professionals who took part in the Road to Zero Coalition’s Vehicle Design Task Force, RTZ believes this is the first comprehensive picture of what research says about the safety risks of oversized passenger vehicles (SUVs, vans and pickup trucks). Massive Hazards shows how these light trucks are fueling a roadway safety crisis that collectively takes over 40,000 lives annually, enabled by inadequate regulations and outdated policies.
RTZ’s mission is laid out in The Road to Zero: A Vision for Achieving Zero Roadway Deaths by 2050. Through webinars, reports and dedicated partnerships, RTZ disseminates best practices in roadway safety. RTZ also focuses on enabling communities through its Community Traffic Safety Grants, funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Coalition membership is continuously growing. If your organization is interested in joining the Road to Zero initiative, please fill out this membership form.
The 2026 Road to Zero Annual Meeting was held May 19 at the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C. Celebrating 10 years of the Road to Zero Coalition, we were proud to welcome NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison, who gave a keynote address to highlight current priorities and challenges in traffic safety. We also heard from the 2025 Road to Zero Community Traffic Safety Grant recipients regarding their innovative projects addressing safer roads, safer vehicles, safer people, safer speeds and improved post-crash care. Peter Trouche of the Colorado Whole Blood Coalition, a grant recipient, attended in-person to explain how pre-hospital blood transfusions are saving crash victim lives in metropolitan Denver.
The Coalition also released its report, The Road to Zero at Ten Years.
Whether you joined us in-person or online, we hope you enjoyed reconnecting with us as much as we did with you. Road to Zero thanks the National League of Cities for hosting our in-person event and providing technical support for the hundreds of attendees on Zoom. We’ll see you next year!
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