Road security efforts in Europe provide quite a few examples and success tales from which U.S. jurisdictions are studying. In the newest Triple-I Executive Exchange, MAPFRE USA President and CEO Jaime Tamayo sat down with Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan to debate these learnings from an insurance coverage perspective.
“In Europe, road-related fatalities are significantly lower than in the U.S., and we wanted to get a better understanding as to why,” Tamayo stated. “We brought together leading experts and policymakers from Europe and the U.S. in transportation, urban planning, public health, and technology to discuss ways in which we can improve policies, innovation, enforcement, and education around safe driving.”
Through its charitable basis, Fundación MAPFRE, the Spain-based reinsurer is devoted to “Vision Zero” – a motion begun in Sweden in 1997 with a aim of eliminating visitors fatalities and injury-sustaining crashes. In reference to exporting this effort to the United States, Mapfre for greater than 20 years has sponsored a program for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that consists of a fleet of automobiles that patrol foremost highways and thoroughfares within the state, serving to stranded motorists get again on the street.
“The program has been a great success,” Tamayo stated, “covering over 30 million miles of road since its inception.”
In addition to Massachusetts, Vision Zero has been taking maintain in communities throughout the United States, together with metropolitan areas equivalent to New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Ore.
In Portland, a number of knowledge factors are serving to authorities officers higher perceive the way to scale back visitors fatalities and accidents, together with a excessive share of pedestrian crashes occurring due to lengthy distances between marked crossings. Portland has taken the initiative, constructing “a system to protect pedestrians includes frequent safe crossings, street lighting, a cultural acceptance of slower speeds and people educated about how to interact safely on the streets.”
In Vision Zero metropolis Hoboken, N.J., seven years have handed with out a visitors fatality, at the same time as visitors deaths have reached a 40-year excessive throughout the nation.
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