Specifications include, but are not limited to: Consultants responding to this Request for Qualifications should have experience developing traffic safety operations and plans. Consultants should have experience in performing comprehensive studies involving pedestrians and bicyclists. In addition, demonstrated knowledge of Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach is preferred. The backgrounds and experience levels of each team member who will be assigned to this project shall be provided. The City embraces the Vision Zero goal to eliminate all fatal and severe injury crashes within the City of Phoenix by the year 2050. This goal includes anyone walking, biking, rolling, taking transit, or driving while using the City’s transportation system. The City also embraces the Federal Safe System Approach, which focuses on a human-centric approach to intelligent transportation system design, proactively identifying and addressing risks and creating redundancies in safety measures. It is understood that people will still make mistakes, and crashes will still occur, but they shouldn’t end in a life-altering tragedy. The City of Phoenix has authority per ARS 28-703 to set appropriate speed limits based on an engineering & traffic investigation. There is broad consensus among global roadway safety experts that speed control is one of the most critical methods to reduce the significant risks drivers impose on others especially vulnerable road users and on themselves. Addressing speed is fundamental to the Safe System Approach for reducing fatalities and serious injuries. As identified in the City of Phoenix Road Safety Action Plan Vision Zero adopted on September 7, 2022, this Speed Study evaluation strategy (GN.03E) includes a city wide evaluation of posted speed limits with the purpose of updating posted speed limits as necessary based on engineering, planning, and safety analysis. This Speed Limit Setting Study will analyze a representative sample of roadway segments throughout the City of Phoenix, evaluating multiple segments for each type/classification of roadway. This procedure should focus on how Phoenix evaluates speed limits for arterial roadways while balancing the need for our streets to move people and goods safely and efficiently. The City desires a speed limit setting procedure that feels correct to most people and not just lowering the speed limit for police to have to enforce constantly. We are looking for speed limits that are more context-sensitive but something drivers will follow.
