A message from the WM Active Travel Commissioner

This event is important to me as it is a way to share best practice across the sector and supports the Mayor’s priority to address safety issues

Why this event is important – and why WMCA is hosting it

This event is important to me as it is a way to share best practice across the sector and supports the Mayor’s priority to address safety issues. This allows for me and Mat, the WM Road Safety Commissioner, to work with communities to deliver solutions that address their barriers - together these are vital to support people to walk, wheel and cycle more.

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Meet Beccy at Delivering Vision Zero, 30 June, Birmingham

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Our desired outcomes for making streets and roads safer, and creating better communities

We want to see more connected communities, where people have the skills, and confidence to make short trips in healthier ways than defaulting to a car. But it's also about choice, increasing people's travel horizons and access new places and opportunities. For longer trips we want people to feel and be safe to walk, wheel or cycle to their local public transport hubs, to provide fully integrated options to get around.

Why industry should attend and contribute

Anyone from road safety, transport policy, transport delivery, active travel, public health, physical activity or relevant 3rd sector bodies should join to learn, share and come together to find approaches to tackle road safety and active travel challenges.

Beccy Marston is Active Travel Commissioner for the West Midlands

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About Delivering Vision Zero

Following the publication of the Government's Road Safety Strategy, Delivering Vision Zero brings together leaders and practitioners from across road safety, transport, active travel, public health, planning, enforcement, policy and communications to chart an evidence-based path towards eliminating deaths and serious injuries on our roads.

Reducing road danger is the essential and non-negotiable foundation of Vision Zero. But achieving it also represents a far wider opportunity: to reshape our streets into places that are safer, healthier, fairer and more liveable for everyone – particularly children and those most vulnerable to harm.

Through keynote addresses, panel discussions and practical breakout sessions, the conference will explore how we move beyond isolated interventions towards a mature Safe System approach. Delegates will examine what the evidence tells us about what works, how to deliver change at pace in a challenging political and funding environment, and how different sectors can collaborate to turn ambition into reality.

The programme will showcase real-world examples of delivery from across the UK, explore emerging tools and technologies, and consider how safer streets can unlock wider benefits for communities, public health, active travel and everyday life.

Delivering Vision Zero is for anyone committed to eliminating road deaths and serious injuries – and to creating streets where people can move, meet, play and live without fear.

Visit the event website