Summit Takeaways

Main points of each segment of the summit in order of appearance.

1) Central Florida Safety Strategic Plan (CFSSP) – Secretary John E. Tyler, PE

• Provides a bold framework to work even more collaboratively across the district to address our
safety challenges on both state and local roads.
• The CFSSP is built around the three core themes (priority areas) of:
o Increased Collaboration
o Thinking Beyond Infrastructure
o Continued Focus on Safey
• Strong encouragement to:
o Think beyond infrastructure solutions.
o Consider innovative approaches that may include technology, education.
o Developing new partnerships beyond those we have already explored.
• Input is still being gathered.
• Announced the formation of a Steering Committee to help guide the progress of the CFSSP.
Soliciting for Steering Committee membership.
o Contact: Kari Pucker
 D: 904.328.2105
 Kari.Pucker@GreshamSmith.com

2) Plenary – Jason Barger, Step Back Leadership Consulting

“Where you look, you go. Where you look, your body follows.”

• Collaboration = pulling in the same direction.

• Culture = what you want to become. Reflects in the ways we choose to:
o Act
o Interact
o Communicate
• Strategy for creating new paths to get where we want to go:
o Assess
o Align
o Aspire
o Articulate
o Act
o Anchor
• As you move along the path, always come back to the plan.

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3) Safety Champions Panel
• Graig Curry (Commissioner, Marion), Christine Moore (Commissioner, Orange County), Chris
Cloudman (Mayor, DeLand), Don Willis (Council, Cape Canaveral), and Officer Thibodeau
(enforcement).
o The panel shared examples of initiatives in their communities to support the Target Zero
efforts and answered a few questions from the audience.
o Most commonly shared efforts centered around:
 Community outreach and education, including social media to reach young
drivers.
 Rewarding good driving behavior. Programs shared are similar to Citizen’s
Academy.
 Complete Streets approaches to roadway design to increase safety.
 Multi-modal roadways design to reduce car dependency. Provide safety for
pedestrians, bicycles, golf carts, etc.
 Smart City and technology integration.

4) Keynote – Mayor Jerry Demings (City of Orlando)

• Improving transportation conditions is a priority for the administration. Improving:
o Infrastructure.
o Commute times.
o Safety for users (bus shelters).
• Emphasized the need to invest in infrastructure improvements.
o 2026 will bring the continuation of a transportation and infrastructure sales tax (Charter
County Sales Tax) initiative. In the first round of the initiative:
 Staff researched may be addressed under the existing budgets and partnered
with FDOT.
 Orange County approved $100M accelerated transportation safety program.
• 246 safety improvement projects ongoing in Orange County.
o Digital dashboard for the public to follow the process of the
projects is available.
o 2022 Orange County adopted Vision Zero. Because:
 Need to be intentional about bringing about change.
 Deaths and injuries are not inevitable nor a price to pay for mobility.
o Updating Land Development Code (Orange Code)
 Prioritizes pedestrian and vehicle safety by regulating the physical form and
design of buildings, streets, and neighborhoods at the centers and corners of
Orange County.
 Encourages mixed-use development which reduces the need for vehicular travel
and promotes walkability in safe environments.
 Vision 2050 – Orange Code promotes roadway design to adjust to the plan
context of the areas with state traversed which promotes safety and quality of
life for the residents and economic development.

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 • Paradigm Shift – Imperative to change the way of thinking about how we perceive the problem
to improve a safety culture across communities rather than accepting.
• Alignment with Vision Zero priorities:
o Increased collaboration across all safety stakeholders to include an investment in a
multi-modal transportation network that changes the primary way of travel from being
car centric.
o Refocus on the design and operation of transportation systems with innovative new
approaches.
o The provision for safety redundancies anticipating human mistakes.
o Selection and enforcement of appropriate traveling speeds lessening impact forces to
reduce crash severity and saving lives. Including improved vehicle manufacturing.
• Commitment to Vision Zero strategies:
o Building and sustaining leadership, collaboration, and accountability. Specifically, among
a diverse group of stakeholders, including transportation professionals, policy makers,
public health officials, law enforcement, and community members.
o Collecting, analyzing, using data to understand trends potential disproportionate
impacts of traffic deaths on certain populations.
o Prioritizing equity and community engagement.
o Managing speed to safe levels.
o Setting a timeline to achieve zero traffic deaths and serious injuries, which brings
urgency and accountability and ensuring transparency on progress towards that goal.

5) Safety Awards

6) Call to Action and Closing – Kari Pucker, PE, PTOE, RSP1 (Transportation Engineer)
• Call to continued and expanded collaborative actions and a personal commitment to safety.

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