Transportation Safety & Implementation Plans

Reducing injuries and fatal collisions

The Transportation Safety Plan and Implementation Plan identifies the City’s commitment towards safer roads and travel within St. Albert.

The Transportation Safety Plan

The St. Albert Transportation Safety Plan (2018 to 2025) aligns with Vision Zero and focuses on reducing injuries and fatal collisions on St. Albert roadways. Vision Zero is a long-term traffic safety goal focused on working towards a world with zero traffic fatalities.

The Transportation Safety Plan uses the 5 E’s of traffic safety – Engineering, Education, Engagement, Enforcement and Evaluation as a holistic approach to enhance road safety for all users. The Plan is based on city collision statistics, industry best practices, existing programs and projects and input from stakeholders involved in delivering services to the community.

Focus Areas

Intersections – Intersections are a key aspect of the transportation network but are also areas of high conflict in time and space between all road users.
Vulnerable Road Users – Pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and the visually-, hearing-, or mobility-impaired have a higher likelihood of suffering an injury when involved in a collision.
Vehicle Speeds – Excessive speed can impact the number and severity of collisions on the roadway.
Distraction – Driver distraction (including mobile device use) is an increasing contributor to crashes.
Young Drivers – Drivers between the ages of 16 and 25 are the highest-risk age group for collisions based on such factors as inexperience, higher levels of aggression, and alcohol/drug use.
Safer Vehicles – Safety can be improved by developing and using safer vehicles and vehicle safety technology.

Implementation Plan

The Implementation Plan focuses on the 2018 through 2025 timeframe, with multiple strategies aligning with current City programs, such as Safe Journeys to School, Neighbourhood Traffic Calming, and Intelligent Transportation Systems, along with enforcement and educational activities. The priority areas result from collision data and the City’s objective of achieving Vision Zero. Key target areas in the short term include:

Network collision screening, reporting and prioritization – Robust and reliable collision data is key to understanding and evaluating safety issues and opportunities, and delivering improvements to improve safety.
Network speed screening and mitigation measures – Collect, analyze and evaluate vehicle speeds and their influence on collision occurrences or risk on the City’s arterial and local road networks, including school and playground zones.
Targeted collision reduction – Develop strategies for reducing motor vehicle incidents involving:
- rear-end collisions – represent 44% of overall collisions from 2012 to 2017 and 46% of injury-related collisions during this time.
- right angle collisions – represent 18% of overall collisions from 2012 to 2017 and 20% of injury-related collisions during this time.
- left-turn across path collisions – represent 14% of overall collisions from 2012 to 2017 and 14% of injury-related collisions during this time.
- young drivers – youth aged 16 to 25 years represent the highest number of ‘at-fault’ drivers.

Questions?

If you have questions associated with the Transportation Safety Plan, its implementation or have any traffic safety concerns – email trafficsafety@stalbert.ca