The Vision Zero Network describes its initiative as follows: Vision Zero recognizes that people will sometimes make mistakes, so the road system and related policies should be designed to ensure those inevitable mistakes do not result in severe injuries or fatalities. This means that system designers and policymakers are expected to improve the roadway environment, policies (such as speed management), and other related systems to lessen the severity of crashes. Vision Zero is a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together diverse and necessary stakeholders to address this complex problem. In the past, meaningful, cross-disciplinary collaboration among local traffic planners and engineers, policymakers, and public health professionals has not been the norm. Vision Zero acknowledges that many factors contribute to safe mobility -- including roadway design, speeds, behaviors, technology, and policies -- and sets clear goals to achieve the shared goal of zero fatalities and severe injuries. What this means is, in order to minimize and eliminate car accidents, governments and municipalities must focus less on changing individual driver action and more on an accident-reducing infrastructure. Cities can apply for the Vision Zero program by taking “demonstrable and significant” action in supporting its core values and principles in eliminating traffic accident and fatalities. Called a new approach to “road safety thinking,” Swedish Parliament implemented Vision Zero in 1997 with the goal of zero deaths and serious injuries on Sweden’s roads. The program has been extremely successful in Sweden and throughout Europe – between 2001 and 2020, road deaths in the European Union dropped from 54,00 to under 20,000 and continue on a downward trajectory.