Sarah Abel

Vice President, Innovative Mobility · ITS America · company speakers →

Sarah Abel is the Vice President, Innovative Mobility at Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). Sarah leads many projects at ITS America in the programs department, including transit data interoperability, automated vehicles, and road safety technology efforts currently. Sarah provides participatory engagement to bring the industry around thought leadership initiatives and helps agencies find creative approaches to identify innovative technology that address real world challenges. Prior to ITS America, Sarah was involved in advancing active transportation and road safety using the Safe System Approach, action planning and implementing Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) and Vision Zero in over a dozen communities, improving curbside management practices and multimodal transportation impact assessments, improving communities through community-led smart growth planning, and building green and complete streets in rural regions. Sarah authored the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Safe System Approach Strategic Plan, Safe System Approach for the Urban Core Report, and Curbside Inventory Guide as well as ITE’s Multimodal Transportation Impact Assessment for Site Development. She led the City of Des Moines, Iowa Vision Zero Road Safety Action Plan and contributed to the first Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessments in California and Oklahoma. Sarah wrote articles for FHWA Public Roads, ITE Journal, Road to Zero Coalition, and World Resources Institute The City Fix.

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