Pittsburgh Vision Zero Summit – Oct. 17, 2025

Join BikePGH and the City of Pittsburgh for the City’s first-ever Vision Zero Summit

BikePGH and the City of Pittsburgh are co-hosting the City’s first-ever Vision Zero Summit. Join us for a day of discussions, speakers and breakouts highlighting the local and regional efforts to achieve zero deaths on our roadways.

Traffic fatalities across the country have been on the rise, with pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users making up a higher percentage of victims than ever before. Vision Zero is a holistic approach to eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

In March of 2024, Mayor Gainey committed to Vision Zero, providing the framework and goal to make the necessary changes in both Pittsburgh’s built environment and city processes. Additionally, Allegheny County and SPC are working on a Vision Zero Action Plan for the county. But, there’s still plenty of work to do to achieve zero traffic deaths on our streets.

Learn + Share + Collaborate

The summit will provide a forum for participants to learn about the principles of Vision Zero, share what progress has been made at their companies and departments related to specific policies, plans and projects. It will also provide opportunities for networking with the hope of kickstarting a greater level of collaboration across sectors to save lives on our streets and roadways.

What to Expect

Join us for a day of discussions, speakers and breakouts highlighting the local and regional efforts to achieve zero deaths on our roadways. Summit registration includes 3 plenary sessions, choice of two breakout sessions, light breakfast, lunch, and a happy hour beverage.

Featured Speakers and Panelists


Claudia Adriazola-Steil

Claudia is the Global Health & Road Safety Program Director and the Deputy Global Urban Mobility Director at the World Resources Institute. She leads research, policy and project implementation in sustainable transport including walking, cycling, mass transportation, freight, electrification and urban design. With more than 20 years of experience in the Transport sector, she focuses on improving quality of life through road safety, air quality, climate change, and equity. Working in the Americas, Asia and Africa, Claudia has been recognized as a Remarkable Woman in Transport 2019 by GIZ, and has been honored by the Brazilian Government with the Maua Medal for Merits.

Claudia is a lawyer, trained in Germany in Transport Management. In 2008, she graduated with an Executive Master of Public Administration and a Master of Arts in International Relations at Syracuse University. In 2022 she completed an Executive Master’s in Behavioral Change at Harvard University. Read more about her in this New York Times interview.


Mayor Ed Gainey

On March 4, 2024 Mayor Ed Gainey, in partnership with the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) and Councilmember Barb Warwick, formally committed the city to eliminate road traffic fatalities and serious injuries, a policy known as of Vision Zero. A safe and equitable transportation system is a shared responsibility and requires multiple agencies and all roadway users to work together through a holistic approach to roadway design, education, and policy.


Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato

Sara Innamorato was sworn in as Allegheny County Executive on January 2, 2024. Prior to winning the election for County Executive, she served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after securing an overwhelming majority and winning the election for the 21st District seat in 2018. Sara is a lifelong resident of Allegheny County, currently living in Upper Lawrenceville. She is a graduate of North Hills High School and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration.


State Senator Lindsey Williams

Senator Lindsey M. Williams represents the 38th Senatorial District in Allegheny County, which encompasses the 10th, 11th and 12th Wards of the City of Pittsburgh, the North Hills suburbs, and many of the communities along the Allegheny River Valley.

Senator Williams represents Allegheny County on the Senate Transportation Committee.


State Representative Lindsay Powell

State Representative Lindsay Powell represents the 21st Legislative District in Allegheny County. Powell served as a city of Pittsburgh assistant chief of staff for almost half a decade and directed legislation and policy for city departments.

She currently sits on the PA House Transportation Committee.


City Councilmember Barb Warwick

Barb Warwick was sworn in as the District 5 City Councilmember on December 12th, 2022. She was re-elected and sworn in for a full four-year term on January 8, 2024.
In Partnership with Mayor Ed Gainey, she helped solidify the Vision Zero commitment to eliminate road traffic fatalities and serious injuries through sponsoring a Council Resolution, signed by the Mayor.


Geoff Webster

Mr. Webster is a co-founding Chair of the PGH Futures Collaborative – dedicated to making Pittsburgh the first region where every individual lives to their fullest potential using proven leadership and system principles to drive habitual excellence in organizations. Highlights of this work include supporting the City of Pittsburgh toward a vision of perfect safety, including 32% improvements in worker safety, 53% violence reductions, and measurable improvements toward the Vision Zero commitment to end traffic related harm. Geoff also advises health care CEOs who are dedicated to perfecting safety and empowering employees to capture 100% value in everything they do.


Jason Zang

Jason Zang is the District Executive for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) Engineering District 11, which covers a three-county Pittsburgh region. Zang is responsible for the planning and supervising of the state highway system in PennDOT’s Engineering District 11 that covers Allegheny, Beaver, and Lawrence counties. Within the three counties, PennDOT District 11 owns and maintains 2,549 miles of state highway, 1,794 bridges and four tunnels.

Plenary & Breakout Sessions at a glance

Professionals in the field will host breakout sessions covering topics such as:

  • Plenary: More than Roadway Design: Why we need a full safe system approach
  • Plenary: How the State Shapes the City
  • Plenary: The Future of Vision Zero
  • State of Vision Zero & Safety in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Region
  • Working with the Community to get things done
  • The Role of Curb Management & Automated Enforcement in Vision Zero
  • Fatal Crash Response
  • Let’s go for a Walk (Audit)! (Mobile Session)
  • Vision Zero as a Public Safety Issue
  • Introducing PennSTART
  • Traffic Signals / Liberty Ave HSIP

See the Day-of Schedule for full session descriptions

Continuing Education Credits

For those who are looking for continuing education credits, the conference will provide up to five (5) Professional Development Hours (PDH), from the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) – Pittsburgh chapter.

Location

University Club
123 University Place
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA, 15213

The Pittsburgh Vision Zero Summit
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SHOWCASE YOUR COMMITMENT TO SAFER, SMARTER AND MORE LIVABLE STREETS

Sponsors of this inaugural event will have the opportunity to engage with more than 100 elected, government, corporate and community leaders and contribute to discussions that will shape the future of our streets. Contact christine@bikepgh.org to customize a sponsorship – remaining sponsor opportunities are limited.

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