2024 Metro Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Workshop

About the Workshop

This annual workshop helps facilitate Minnesota TZD's goal of creating a collaborative, comprehensive, and regional approach to reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries.

Download the final agenda (PDF).

Presentation Slides

• Welcome! (PDF)
  Khani Sahebjam, District Engineer, MnDOT Metro District and Metro TZD Regional Co-chair
• Complete Streets (PDF)
  Sonja Piper, Active Transportation Safety Engineer, MnDOT Office of Traffic Engineering
• Traffic Safety Camera Pilot Overview (PDF)
  Ethan Fawley, Vision Zero Coordinator, City of Minneapolis 
• Speed Safety Camera Systems (PDF)
  Mark Wagner, MnDOT Office of Traffic Engineering
• Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Minnesota Needs YOU! (PDF)
  MnDOT staff and Alliant Engineering 
• Impact Teen Driver (PDF)
  Annette Larson, State TZD Program and Operations Coordinator 
• How to Build a Coordinated Community Outreach Event: Hopkins Police Department (PDF)
  Anne Marie Buck, Police Service Liaison, and Julie Ross, JCPP Community Liaison
• How to Build a Coordinated Community Outreach Event: Safe Summer Nights (PDF)
  Commander Daniel Mack, St. Paul Police Department
• How to Build a Coordinated Community Outreach Event: Know Your Limits (PDF)
  Sgt. Kyle Puelston, Chisago County Sheriff’s Office 

Workshop Goals

• Encourage traffic safety as a priority for policymakers
• Provide information on traffic safety issues in the Twin Cities Metro area
• Provide a method to bring traffic safety programs into your community
• Spread successes of the Metro Toward Zero Deaths program
• Network with other traffic safety advocates

Credit

Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be available and POST credits are being applied for, but still pending.

Workshop Sponsors

• Metro Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Program
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety
• Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Traffic Engineering and Metro District
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Minnesota State Patrol

More Information

For questions about the workshop, please contact one of the Metro TZD Regional Coordinators:

• Scot Edgeworth, 651-775-9496, scot.edgeworth@state.mn.us
• Tara Helm, 651-600-8018, tara.helm@state.mn.us