The rationality and moral acceptability of Vision Zero Goal and its interventions

This licentiate thesis discusses moral issues associated with road safety work, with a particular emphasis on the Vision Zero (VZ) goal and its interventions. Claiming over 1.3 million lives and leading to 20 to 50 million serious injuries every year, road traffic crashes are one of the biggest public health problems in the world. In the process of addressing this public health challenge, some international entities, countries and cities have committed themselves to ambitious road safety goals. The goal to prevent all fatalities and serious injuries, the Vision Zero (VZ) is one important example. In 1997, Sweden adopted the VZ as the ultimate goal of road safety policy in the country. According to the government policy document, the long term goal of road safety work is the prevention of all road fatalities and serious injuries through the promotion of greater responsibility to actors responsible for the design and operation of the road system and safety of its components. The policy promoted the ethical unacceptability of preventable crashes and required the road system to be designed and operated in such a way that fatalities and serious injuries are prevented. Currently, similar VZ goals have been adopted in many European countries and cities around the world. The general aim of this thesis is to assess and analyse moral issues associated with the adoption of the VZ goal and its implementation.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Pagination: 40
  • Serial:
    • TRITA-ABE-DLT ;
    • Issue Number: 2135
    • Publisher: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01844828
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • ISBN: 9789178739950
  • Files: ITRD, VTI
  • Created Date: May 6 2022 5:07PM