Safe System, Vision Zero, and Sustainable Safety: a scoping review

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Safe System, Sustainable Safety, Vision Zero

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In this study, we provide a scoping review of the research literature on Vision Zero, Safe System and Sustainable Safety. Using a simplified PRISMA approach, we identify 129 studies, describing what year and where the studies are from, which topics the studies are about, and how the terms are used. Using a thematic analysis of the abstracts of the 129 studies, we identify seven main study topics in the studies. The most prevalent study topics are: 1) Case study/Implementation study, 2) Study on principles, 3) Study on practical/strategic use, 4) Study on "readiness", or factors that inhibit or promote implementation, 5) Vulnerable road users, inequality and social justice, 6) Results of measures and potential, and 7) Future challenges and solutions. We describe knowledge status, knowledge gaps and questions for future research within each study topic. The studies find that entities that have formally implemented the Safe System have relatively low levels of implementation, due to implementation barriers and operationalization challenges. The studies find that it is not necessarily clearly defined what Vision Zero/Safe System is in practice, and that the concept must be interpreted and translated by those who will implement it. Thus, current road safety policies do not fully realise the potential improvements that Safe System can provide, because the principles are not followed to a sufficient extent. A Norwegian study estimate that the number of road fatalities in Norway can be reduced by 50%–70% by following the Safe System principles fully and systematically. Thus, a major challenge, also in mature Safe System contexts, is to facilitate actual Safe System implementation, by mapping barriers/facilitators and Safe System readiness, and defining actions to realise the full potential of Safe System implementation.

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Author Biographies

Tor-Olav Nævestad, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Tor-Olav Nævestad heads the research group ‘Safety and Resilience’ at the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo, Norway. He has been working on projects related to safety culture, safety management and regulation among companies and authorities in the transport sector and in high-risk sectors. One of the key themes in his research has been to develop an understanding of how the safety culture concept can be applied to private and professional road users, and how this understanding can be used to develop measures aiming to improve road safety. Tor-Olav Nævestad also conducts research on resilience and disaster risk management.

CRediT contribution: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing.

Ingeborg Storesund Hesjevoll, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Ingeborg Hesjevoll is a research psychologist in the group for safety, security and resilience at the Institute of Transport Economics. She has experience with a wide range of research topics and methodologies related to road safety, including literature reviews and research synthesis, survey-based accident registration for vulnerable road users, analyses of accident data and in-depth accident registrations, and survey research more generally.

CRediT contribution: Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft.

Rune Elvik, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Rune Elvik has been a road safety researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics since 1980. His main areas of research have been evaluation studies, meta-analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Rune Elvik served as editor-in-chief (together with Karl Kim) of Accident Analysis & Prevention from 2005 to 2013. He has participated in many European projects and contributed to the Highway Safety Manual. He has published more than 190 papers in scientific journals.

CRediT contribution: Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft.

Øyvind Lothe Brunstad, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Øyvind holds a Master’s degree in Business and Economics from the Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) and is currently employed as a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo, Norway. Øyvind have mostly been working on projects related to socio-economic analysis in the transport sector, as well as projects utilizing diverse GIS-software and GPS-data. Øyvind also conducts research on traffic safety, e.g. related to collision safety for bus drivers, active and passive safety measures for heavy vehicles and research on Safe Systems, Vision Zero and Sustainable Safety.   

CRediT contribution: Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft.

Jenny Blom, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Jenny Blom is part of the 'Safety, Security, and Resilience' research group at The Institute of Transport Economics in Norway, specializes in national and organizational safety culture, safety management, road safety policies, and traffic education. Her research primary evolves around heavy vehicle and bus companies, studying how organizational safety culture, management practices, and working conditions impact professional drivers' behaviour and accident involvement. Additionally, she studies how framework conditions and national road safety culture influences road safety behaviours. Her research extends to organizational learning, economic driving, and education of both experienced and novice drivers.

CRediT contribution: Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft.

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2025-12-08

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Nævestad, T.-O., Storesund Hesjevoll, I., Elvik, R., Lothe Brunstad, Øyvind, & Blom, J. (2025). Safe System, Vision Zero, and Sustainable Safety: a scoping review. Traffic Safety Research, 9, e000115. https://doi.org/10.55329/ekkh3689

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