Vision Zero Princeton represents the Municipality's ongoing commitment to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries while improving access to safe and equitable transportation by integrating proven design strategies into its infrastructure and transportation plans.

Vision-Zero follows the principles:

• Aim to protect all users of the street, whether walking, rolling, riding a bike, riding a bus, or driving a car or truck;
• Prioritize safety over vehicle speed, traffic volume, and financial cost, both in design decisions and in maintenance operations;
• Use data to identify high-crash areas, and make improvements to these problem locations first;
• Prioritize safety of most vulnerable road users in street design and funding decisions;
• Focus investments on communities of concern, including people with poor or no private vehicle access, youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and those dependent on public transit;
• Street design and engineering are the most effective means to ensure safe behaviors and discourage dangerous behaviors, in order to alleviate the need for enforcement;
• Conduct on-the-spot education through street design, keeping in mind that the majority of drivers on Princeton’s streets live outside Princeton

By shifting from a car-centric to a multi-modal approach which prioritizes walking, biking, rolling, and public transit, as alternatives to driving, Vision Zero supports Princeton's climate goal to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2035.

Crash Data:

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission provides crash statistics on an interactive map of the Princeton area. This digital tool is limited to five years of killed and sever injury crashes (abbreviated as "KSI") for 2018 to 2022. Additionally, the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety provides daily updates on crash statistics.

Get Involved:

• Join other Princetonians around town by reporting "Pedestrian / Bicycle Concerns" and "Traffic Complaints" via SeeClickFix.
• Take the Vision Zero Pledge to demonstrate your support for pedestrian-friendly infrastructure in Princeton and receive a Vision Zero bumper magnet!

Want to Learn More?

• Federal Highway Administration
• U.S. Department of transportation
• National Street Complete Streets Coalition
• Vision Zero Network
• Safe System Roadway Design Hierarchy