To help reduce the number of traffic fatalities in Central Florida, the Orange County Vision Zero Action Plan is using a dashboard to provide a more comprehensive view of crash data.
On Aug. 9, 2022, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners passed a resolution to develop a comprehensive initiative to enhance transportation safety in Orange County.
That initiative, now known as the Orange County Vision Zero Action Plan, is part of a regional effort by MetroPlan — a metropolitan planning organization for Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties — to reduce traffic fatalities and severe injuries affecting 2.2 million residents and 75 million tourists who visit Central Florida annually.
According to the plan’s website, coordinated Vision Zero Action Plans will be created for cities and counties via a $3.8 million federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant.
As for how technology comes into play, one of the plan’s goals is to better understand when, where and how traffic fatalities occur in the county, leading to the creation of a dashboard to “provide a comprehensive view of crash data including type, severity, manner of collision and overall injury and fatality trends for a given period.”
“The Orange County dashboard is provided through MetroPlan’s regional dashboard, which relies on a Signal Four Analytics database maintained by the University of Florida’s GeoPlan Center,” the plan’s website states.
As for how this data will be used, the project’s final phase was to begin last month with submittal of the draft action plan and is to conclude in May with adoption of the final plan.
More information about the Orange County Vision Zero Action Plan can be found online.
Orange County Uses Data to Reduce Traffic Fatalities
With the help of a data dashboard, the Orange County Vision Zero Action Plan aims to create safer roads for 2.2 million residents and 75 million tourists who visit Central Florida annually.
