Napa Valley Vision Zero Plan

What is Vision Zero?

Vision Zero encompasses a range of safety strategies to reduce and eliminate fatal and severe road crashes using the nationally recognized “Safe Systems Approach.” By shifting how we think about and respond to roadways and user safety, this approach seeks to:

• Establish and support a culture of safety over expediency
• Deepen collaboration between public agencies and local residents
• Focus transportation planning, design, and operations to anticipate human mistakes
• Identify and address key factors that lead to severe and fatal collisions

Vision Zero for Napa Valley

In October 2023, the Napa Valley Vision Zero Plan was finalized, and has subsequently been adopted by all local jurisdictions. The culmination of more than 2 years of work, the Plan represents the shared commitment to prioritize roadway safety and eliminate traffic related deaths and serious injuries by 2030.

The Plan provides a roadmap for infrastructure and programmatic changes to increase roadway safety. Through data-driven analysis of collisions and feedback from multiple public agencies, advocacy groups and community members, the Plan summarizes major collision types, identifies corridors where the greatest number of severe injuries and fatalities occur, outlines key safety countermeasures, and provides an action plan to make our roadways safer for all users.

You can learn much more in the Napa Valley Vision Zero Plan.

Download the Final Plan as a PDF.
Local Jurisdictions: Resolutions of Support.

A Data-Driven Approach to Reducing Collisions

From 2015-2021, there were 4,908 total injury collisions in Napa County; 571 were severe or fatal injury collisions.  Most of these collisions occurred on what has been identified as the Countywide High Injury Network (HIN).  The Napa Valley Vision Zero plan will focus efforts on improving conditions on the HIN using proven safety countermeasures designed to reduce crash severity and improve roadway safety overall.

NVTA has also created an interactive digital Storymap, where users can view maps of High Injury Network corridors, collision data, as well as examples of  countermeasures designed to improve safety on our roadways. Learn more about how our community is working together to make our roads safer for everyone; explore the Storymap here.

What’s Next?

Following the adoption of the Vision Zero Plan in October 2023, NVTA, our partners and stakeholders are transitioning from planning to implementation.

A Vision Zero Working Group made up of stakeholders across multiple sectors representing public health, first responders, community organizations, law enforcement, local residents and elected officials was established in December 2024 to guide and support implementation of the Safety Strategies from the plan. The group meets quarterly and works to identify and leverage funding for infrastructure and programs, and break down barriers to information sharing.

Michelin Mobility Road Safety Risk Study

Building on the work of the Vision Zero Plan, in 2024 NVTA was awarded an Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) Grant to collect and analyze data associated with severe driving behaviors in Napa County. While crash data is helpful in identifying roadway safety issues after they occur, this data doesn’t provide an understanding of the type of behaviors such as speeding or erratic driving that take place prior to a crash, or when a crash goes unreported.

A final report summarizing the findings from this study is available for download as a PDF.

In addition to the report, four interactive web-based maps have been developed to assist in understanding location-based behavior that may contribute to collisions, injuries, or fatalities. To request access to these maps, please email Patrick Band, NVTA Senior Planner. We will provide you a download link for these files. Note that each of the four maps are approximately 300MB in size, and are best viewed on a laptop or desktop computer.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.