SCAG Celebrates Walktober with the Release of New Transportation Safety Report and Modeling Tool
October is Walktober, a month dedicated to celebrating walking; raising awareness about pedestrian safety; and encouraging communities to create safer, more accessible streets. In Southern California, Walktober is a reminder of the urgent need to address traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries continuing to affect the region’s communities.
This Walktober, SCAG is releasing two new transportation safety resources: the “2025 Regional Transportation Safety Existing Conditions Report” and the SoCal Community Transportation Safety Modeling Tool. These products are part of SCAG long term commitment to improving roadway safety through data-driven planning, new technology, and regional collaboration.
The “2025 Transportation Safety Regional Existing Conditions Report” provides a comprehensive picture of the region’s current safety challenges, drawing on a decade of collision data to identify key contributing factors—such as speed, impaired driving, and roadway conditions—and highlights disparities affecting vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists. This report sets a baseline for regional safety performance measures as a reference for local transportation safety planning and policy decisions.
Transportation safety remains a pressing issue in the SCAG region, where between 2014 and 2024, approximately 18,000 fatalities and 71,000 serious injuries occurred on roadways. Pedestrians and cyclists are disproportionately affected: according to the report, of the 1,616 fatal collisions that occurred on average each year in the SCAG region, 557 collisions involved someone walking or bicycling. The number of serious injuries among pedestrians and bicyclists has been steadily climbing since 2014 at an average rate of four and a half percent per year. These numbers highlight the importance of SCAG’s new transportation safety resources, which give cities and counties resources to plan for safer streets.
Building on the report’s findings, the SoCal Community Transportation Safety Modeling Tool enables jurisdictions to visualize and predict potential safety impacts of proposed land use development scenarios to plan accordingly to reduce risks of future collisions at the community level. By connecting the insights of the report with this new tool, SCAG equips the region with integrated safety resources that enable agencies to understand the “where” and “why” of collisions, anticipate future safety risks, and proactively invest in effective solutions.