TSR - A Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards Honoree

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More than 40 speakers across 9 sessions—this year's Vision Zero Fleet Forum is even bigger and better than last year's with technology leading the way. From Direct Vision to autonomous vehicles and tools to help end distracted driving, we live in an exciting time for road safety but also a dangerous time with road deaths at all time highs. Join us the 18th and 19th and let's work together towards Vision Zero.

We're also beginning to plan for our annual conference in September, which will fall during the timeframe of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) September 13-27 in NYC. We have exciting plans for our conference with it maybe being an in-person event.

From being asked to attend SXSW and Concordia Lexington and to being honorably mentioned in Fast Company, which you can read about below, we continue to help position our partners and our award-winning work in road safety as ground-breaking. Thank you for joining us.

Vision Zero Fleet Forum - May 18-19

Don't forget to register and Join us at our second annual virtual Vision Zero Fleet Forum May 18-19. Create connections across industries and sectors to accelerate solutions for road safety, promote economic growth, and work towards Vision Zero.

Network with fleet operators, technology companies, OEMs, city officials, community advocates, and road safety experts from around the world.

Over 48 road safety experts representing companies such as AB InBev, Lytx, Interstate Waste, Nationwide, Republic Services, Uber and so many more will be on panel discussions ranging from:

* Solving for Blind Zones
* Sustainability and Fleets
* Using Technology to End Distracted Driving
* Insurance in the Industry
* How Fleets Interact with Autonomous Vehicles and more

Register today for #VZFF2022. And stay tuned because we hope one of our keynote speakers will be another high-ranking U.S. DOT official.

TSR - A Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2022 Honoree

The winners of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring clean technology, innovative corporate initiatives, brave new designs for cities and buildings, and other creative works that are supporting the growth of positive social innovation, tackling social inequality, climate change, and public health crises.

We’ve been recognized as an honoree for our work accelerating Vision Zero through advanced video analytics in both Bellevue, WA and Houston, TX.

Now in its sixth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 39 winners, 350 finalists, and more than 600 honorable mentions—with climate, social justice, and AI and data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 2,997 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, health, social justice, and more.

Look for Fast Company’s Summer 2022 issue (on newsstands May 10, 2022) which will showcase some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies tackling global challenges—including TSR.

Artist Chosen by Connect Communities for Community Project Near Hillcroft Avenue in Houston

Congratulations to Iraqi-born artist Ammar Alobaidi for being chosen by Connect Communities to engage residents and design and implement a community vision near Hillcroft Avenue, a project near to our hearts and that we’ve been working on since 2019.

The art project will draw attention to the international neighborhood of Gulfton and will increase driver awareness of the many pedestrians using the streets and encourage drivers to slow down.

This is in response to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Study that examined the impact of art and streetscape by comparing historical crash rates and real-time behavior of motorists and pedestrians at 22 asphalt art sites before and after the projects were installed.

Major findings included:

· 50% drop in traffic crashes involving pedestrians or cyclists
· 37% drop in crashes leading to injuries
· 27% increase in drivers yielding to pedestrians with the right-of-way
· 25% drop in potentially dangerous conflicts between drivers and pedestrians

The art project is part of the street’s ongoing interventions to improve safety for all types of transportation users.

Texas Vision Zero Summit - May 23-24

As a steering committee member of the Texas Vision Zero Summit, we're proud to help announce that it's almost here.

Farm & City, a nonprofit committed to high-quality urban and rural human habitat in Texas, is hosting the first-ever Texas Vision Zero Summit on May 23rd and 24th in Houston Texas.

For those who believe meeting Vision Zero goals is not only possible but imperative, the Texas Vision Zero Summit is a place to work with peers across the state and allies from other sectors to envision real changes in safety policy.

Sessions will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, lightning presentations, and breakouts for participants to join the discussion. Best practices and inspiration to get to zero will be shared.

Learn more and register.