PHILADELPHIA – Today, the City of Philadelphia, led by the Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) and Vision Zero Philadelphia released the Vision Zero Action Plan 2030. This report is part of the commitment made by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s executive order in March 2024 to eliminate all traffic deaths on Philadelphia streets. In addition to the full report, an online version of the plan has been released, optimized for mobile viewing.

“This is a plan by and for the people of the City of Philadelphia,” said Mayor Cherelle L. Parker. “The voices of nearly 3,000 Philadelphians are reflected in this document and will help guide my administration’s work to make Philadelphia safe, clean and green with economic opportunity for all.”

The Action Plan highlights that 2024 fatal crashes continued to surpass pre-2020 levels. The Action Plan calls for improvements to the High Injury Network, the 12 percent of Philadelphia streets that account for 80 percent of all traffic deaths and serious injuries. As a companion to the Action Plan, an updated High Injury Network (HIN) was released. The previous HIN was based on crash data from 2014 to 2018. The updated HIN is based on crash data from 2019 to 2023.

The post-2020 increase in traffic deaths has most impacted people traveling by foot, bike, or motorcycle without the protection of a vehicle around them. In 2024, less than 10 percent of all crashes involved people walking, biking, rolling, or riding a motorcycle. However, people traveling in those modes of transportation accounted for nearly two-thirds of the fatalities in that year.

There are also demographic disparities in fatal and serious injury crashes. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) analyzed traffic-related injuries and deaths and found that some demographic groups are more affected than others. PDPH developed an Underserved Communities (UC) metric, which shows how Black and Hispanic Philadelphians experience higher rates of traffic-related deaths. The Vision Zero Action Plan will track the disparity in this metric over time. The Action Plan is committed to advancing traffic safety improvements that reduce it.

To inform the Action Plan, nearly 3,000 Philadelphians shared their concerns about traffic safety. Throughout 2025, community members engaged through roundtable conversations, in-person surveys, online surveys, and market research polling. Across all methods of engagement, Philadelphians said their greatest traffic safety concerns are speeding, running red lights/stop signs, and distracted driving. Participants in the roundtables highlighted that physical, infrastructure-related changes work best to change driver behavior and reduce speeds.

The Action Plan is the result of significant intergovernmental cooperation between City departments, partner agencies and organizations. Working groups gathered regularly to develop action items that are achievable and will have measurable impacts. Action items are categorized within Philadelphia’s Safe System approach categories, including Safer Streets & Speeds, Safer People, Safer Vehicles, Safety Data, and Safety Policy. The status of these action items will be reported on annually through the Vision Zero Annual Report. To see the full list of action items, visit the Vision Zero Action Plan 2030 webpage and read the full report.

Action items reflect the wide range of departments and initiatives under the Vision Zero umbrella. For instance:

  • The Safer Streets & Speeds Subcommittee, led by the Department of Streets, will complete a Capital Plan to guide programming safety improvements on every mile of the HIN by 2030.
  • The Safer People Subcommittee, led by PDPH, will expand traffic safety education through Safe Routes Philly (SRP) by increasing the number of schools teaching safe routes lessons. They will also work with the Philadelphia Police Department on enforcing the rules of the road with high visibility enforcement campaigns to address dangerous driving behaviors like speeding and aggressive driving.
  • Under Safer Vehicles, the Department of Fleet Services will pilot the use of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) to support safer driving habits with speed limiters.
  • The Safety Data Subcommittee, led by the Department of Planning & Development, will explore data linkage between health and crash datasets and perform injury and crash analyses to inform Vision Zero priorities.

The Action Plan also highlights some of the projects advanced in support of Vision Zero over the past year:

  • Automated speed enforcement (ASE) was expanded to PA Route 611 (Broad Street/Old York Road) and has been approved to be expanded to the remainder of Route 13 within Philadelphia (Baltimore/W Hunting Park/Frankford Avenues), Route 2001 (Erie/Torresdale Avenues), Route 2016 (Allegheny Avenue), and Route 1004 (Richmond Street/Delaware Avenue). Cameras will also be installed at seven school zones across Philadelphia.
  • The city’s fifth Neighborhood Slow Zone, the 10th Memorial Slow Zone, was completed. The Slow Zone lowers the speed limit to 20 MPH and includes traffic calming on most blocks in the zone.
  • Concrete pedestrian median islands were installed on High Injury Network corridors (Race, Chestnut, and Broad Streets).
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