Mateen Mahboubi presents “City of Toronto Road Safety Plan”

In 2016, in response to a general upward trend in traffic-related fatalities starting in 2012, particularly among vulnerable road users, as well as changes in values representing the Vision Zero approach, City Council approved the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan.

This signaled a change in values representing the Vision Zero approach, moving away from primarily targeting a reduction in all collisions, including less serious property-damage-only collisions, and toward a focus on reducing collisions resulting in death and serious injury.

In 2019 the Vision Zero 2.0 update recommended a set of more extensive, more proactive and more targeted initiatives informed by data to continue more effectively addressing these collisions.

This presentation will focus on the City of Toronto’s efforts on data-driven decision making and some of the key programs delivered, including a number of examples of completed projects and new programs that the City is exploring to improve safety.

Mateen Mahboubi joined the City of Toronto in 2018 in the Vision Zero Projects team and has been working to deliver the City’s Road Safety Plan with the goal of eliminating serious injuries and fatalities on roads in the city. Previously, he worked in consulting and at the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Mateen studied Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto where he completed his BASc and MEng.

Mateen lives a car free life in Toronto and gets around the city on bicycle with his children year-round.

Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.

Free. All are welcome.

If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.

Join link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87624482177.
Please note that the same Zoom link will be used for all of the UT-ITE fall semester seminars.