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This bill establishes the "New Jersey Target Zero Commission" within the Department of Transportation. The commission consists of 13 members, including various state officials and representatives from transportation agencies and planning organizations. The commission's purpose is to study and review traffic safety, with a focus on access, equity, and mobility for all road users, using a "safe system approach" to help achieve the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2040. The commission is tasked with reviewing the state's Strategic Highway Safety Plan, identifying data-driven strategies to reduce traffic deaths and injuries, promoting data collection and dissemination, encouraging active transportation and mass transit, developing guidance to implement the safe system approach and target zero strategies, and providing advice to state and local governments on traffic safety planning. The bill also requires the commission to report annually to the Governor and Legislature on its findings and activities.

Government Affairs, Transportation and Infrastructure

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