Philosophical considerations on Vision Zero

Paweł Bany

doi:10.61089/ejghk994

Authors

Paweł Bany Motor Transport Institute, Scientific Information and Publications Section, 80 Jagiellonska St., 03-301, Warsaw, Poland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61089/ejghk994

Keywords:

traffic, security strategy, Vision Zero

Abstract

Vision Zero is a radical traffic safety policy adopted by Swedish Parliament in 1997 and afterwards – in more or less complete manner – in many other countries in the world. From the very beginning it has attracted considerable interest but has given rise to some essential controversies as well. Claes Tingvall, who is the originator and promoter of Vision Zero, consistently describes it as a kind of philosophy, emphasizing the significance of the ethical imperatives it is founded on. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the main philosophical assumptions of Vision Zero, including these that have not been explicitly uttered but they are presupposed by their propagators. In this text the most important doubts and objections raised by the people skeptical about the above-mentioned Vision have been taken into account.

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