Safety and the IMPO
Each year, more than 40,000 people are needlessly killed on American streets and thousands more are seriously injured. While often referred to as “accidents,” the reality is that traffic deaths from crashes are preventable. Ensuring safe, accessible, and desirable transportation in the region is central to the IMPO’s mission. The IMPO strives to support safety across its core programs and works to create a regional transportation system designed to safely, comfortably, and equitably accommodate road users of all ages, incomes, and abilities.
The information below outlines how the IMPO addresses safety across its four foundational pillars of convene, inform, plan, and fund. These plans and programs are made possible by the IMPO Transportation Policy Committee in cooperation with our State and Federal planning partners. The Policy Committee is made up of elected officials and town managers from across the region who vote to approve all federally required IMPO transportation actions.
Annual Safety Report
IMPO’s Safe Streets and Roads for All Safety Action Plan (or Safety Action Plan for short), intended to help address the rise in fatal and serious traffic crashes within the MPA, consists of several components: goal setting (the Vision Zero Resolution adopted by the IMPO Policy Committee), safety analysis, public engagement, equity analysis, policy and process proposals, and progress reporting. The Annual Safety Report, to be published each year, fulfills the progress reporting aspect of the plan and will track the Indianapolis MPA’s progress towards its Vision Zero Resolution of reducing serious and fatal crashes by 35% by 2040. Click on the most recent report to see our progress.
