2015 Metro Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Workshop

The first Metro Minnesota TZD workshop was held June 5, 2015, in Oakdale, MN. The event helps facilitate the program's goal of creating a collaborative, comprehensive, and regional approach to reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries.

• Download the workshop agenda (383 KB PDF)

Workshop Presentations 

Welcome

• Greg Coughlin, Director, MnDOT Metro Region Office of Operations and Maintenance; Commissioner Charlie Zelle, Minnesota Department of Transportation; Scott McBride, District Engineer, MnDOT Metro District (3.30 MB PDF)
  

Exploring Minnesota’s Traffic Safety Culture

• Kristine Hernandez, Minnesota TZD Program Coordinator (1.28 MB PDF)
  

Managing Safety for Older Drivers

• Erica Stern, Associate Professor, Program in Occupational Health Therapy-Center for Allied Health Programs, University of Minnesota (615 KB PDF)
• Scott Melander, Police Officer, City of Woodbury (658 KB PDF)
• Kathy Woods Rakowczyk, Driver Assessment and Training Services, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Services (533 KB PDF)
  

Engineering 101: What’s up With These Mumbles, Rumbles & Roundabouts? How Can County Highway Safety Plans Help?

• Mark Vizecky, State Aid Engineer, MnDOT (1.78 MB PDF)
  

Regional TZD Crash Facts Overview

• Greg Coughlin, Director, MnDOT Metro Region Office of Operations and Maintenance, and Captain Michael Hanson, Minnesota State Patrol (800 KB PDF)
  

Regional Highlights and 4E TZD County Coalition Building 

• Mason Barland, Hennepin County Traffic Advisory Committee (286 KB PDF)
  
• Julie Pulkrabek, Rosemount Police Department, and Gordy Pehrson, Office of Traffic Safety, Minnesota Department of Public Safety (402 KB PDF)
  

Pedestrian Safety

• Nicole Campbell, Safe Routes to School Program Administrator (2.88 MB PDF)
• Carol Swenson, Executive Director, District Council Collaborative of St. Paul and Minneapolis (2.42 MB PDF)

Navigating the Metro TZD Landscape One “E” at a Time – Breakout Sessions

• Lisa Kons, Minnesota Safety Council (901 KB PDF)