Bicycle safety statistics and crash data.
Safety Program and Project Map#
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The City’s Vision Zero program page is the maintained source for its traffic-safety approach, performance work, and related materials. It is broader than bicycling, but directly relevant to bicycle safety and street design.
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Albuquerque Vision Zero Action Plan (2021 Archived PDF)
Sets Albuquerque’s original 2040 Vision Zero framework across street design, safe speeds, policy, education, walking and rolling, data, and accountability. The City’s 2023 Year-in-Review later replaced it for implementation, but this plan preserves the program’s baseline.
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Albuquerque Vision Zero Year-In-Review (2023 archived PDF)
Reviews Albuquerque’s progress on Vision Zero actions and infrastructure, updates the High Fatal and Injury Network, identifies completed and ongoing work, and recommends programmatic and transformative next steps.
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Pedestrian, Bicyclist, and Traffic-Safety Projects Map
Use this City map to see the geographic context of current safety projects. It is also listed in Maps & Dashboards so visitors looking by tool rather than topic can find the same maintained source.
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MRCOG Regional Transportation Safety Action Plan (2024)
MRCOG’s adopted plan uses regional crash analysis, a Safe System approach, safety strategies, area profiles, and project recommendations to address bicycle, pedestrian, roadway, and transit safety.
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Maintains regional transportation-safety resources, including the action plan’s supporting maps, appendices, analysis, and materials covering bicycle, pedestrian, transit, and roadway safety.
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Counts Program
Documents MRMPO’s bicycle and pedestrian counting program, including seven permanent Albuquerque trail counters, short-duration video counts, and anonymized Strava data used to evaluate regional travel patterns and investment needs.
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Maps five years of fatal and injury crashes to identify Albuquerque-area streets and intersections with above-average risk, including pedestrian and bicycle crashes, while noting that each location requires further engineering study.
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Analysis and Reports
Collects MRMPO bicycle and pedestrian survey, trail-use, and travel-monitoring reports, including Albuquerque International District and South Valley count analysis and recurring Bike to Work or Wherever findings.
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Collects historical Albuquerque metropolitan crash and safety reports, including Bernalillo County pedestrian and bicycle analysis covering crash severity, locations, timing, people involved, and reported contributing factors.
Historical Regional Crash Analysis#
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Bernalillo County Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Data Analysis, 2010–2014
Examines pedestrian and bicycle crash severity, locations, timing, people involved, and reported contributing factors across Bernalillo County, identifying East Central Avenue as the region’s highest-crash corridor. Official MRCOG PDF
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Albuquerque Metropolitan Crash and Safety Report, 2002–2011
Updates the metropolitan crash baseline through 2011, documenting trends, severity, locations, roadway and driver factors, pedestrian and bicyclist crashes, and comparisons used in regional safety planning. Official MRCOG PDF
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Albuquerque Metropolitan Crash and Safety Report, 2001–2010
Analyzes a decade of metropolitan crash trends, severity, roadway characteristics, contributing factors, intersections, pedestrians, bicyclists, and geographic patterns to support Albuquerque-area transportation planning and safety investment. Official MRCOG PDF
Bicycle Travel and Rider Surveys#
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2025 Bike to Work Day Survey Results
Reports 191 English and Spanish survey responses on bicycling frequency, rider experience, electric-bike use, commute patterns, perceived conditions, barriers, infrastructure priorities, driver behavior, and outreach for Albuquerque’s annual event. Official MRCOG PDF
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2022 Bike to Wherever Day Survey Report
Documents Albuquerque-area rider characteristics, trip purposes, safety perceptions, barriers, facility preferences, event participation, and changing sentiment, with respondents emphasizing protected lanes, connected routes, and safer driver behavior. Official MRCOG PDF
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2020 Bike to Work Day Survey Report
Summarizes 895 online responses about Albuquerque bicycling during the COVID-19 pandemic, including trip purposes, perceived conditions, barriers, protected-lane and network priorities, driver behavior, destinations, and desired improvements. Official MRCOG PDF
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2019 Bike to Work Day Survey Report
Analyzes 1,002 Albuquerque Bike to Work Day responses about rider demographics, trip purposes, bicycling frequency, perceived conditions, barriers, route and facility needs, event participation, and priorities for improvement. Official MRCOG PDF
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Paseo del Bosque and North Diversion Channel Bicycle Trends (2018)
Uses permanent trail-counter data to compare recreational and commute-oriented bicycling patterns on the Paseo del Bosque and North Diversion Channel trails, including hourly, weekday, and weekend trends. Official MRCOG PDF
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Pedestrian and Bicycle Travel Monitoring Report (2016)
Analyzes pedestrian and bicycle counts, observed behavior, land use, transit access, and built-environment conditions at International District and South Valley locations to inform active-transportation planning and public-health investment. Official MRCOG PDF
County Safety Planning#
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Bernalillo County Pedestrian–Bicyclist Safety Action Plan (2025 archived PDF)
Updates the County’s pedestrian and bicyclist safety strategy using public engagement, equity and transportation-insecurity measures, facility inventories, crash analysis, a high-fatal-and-injury network, policy recommendations, countermeasures, and ranked priority projects.
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Bernalillo County Pedestrian–Bicyclist Safety Action Plan Appendix (2025 archived PDF)
Provides the safety plan’s supporting inventories, engagement records, crash and equity analysis, evaluation methodology, community-area findings, detailed priority-project tables, maps, and technical documentation.
State Safety Plans and Crash Records#
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NMDOT Highway Safety Improvement Program
Brings together New Mexico’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment, annual safety targets, network-screening maps, road-safety-audit program, and crash-data request access for all public roads and travel modes.
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New Mexico Strategic Highway Safety Plan (2021 archived PDF)
Sets New Mexico’s statewide roadway-safety priorities and Safe System strategies, covering impaired driving, speeding, intersections, lane departures, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, occupant protection, data, and emergency response.
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NMDOT Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment (2023 archived PDF)
Analyzes pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries statewide, identifies high-risk areas and contributing factors, and recommends infrastructure, policy, data, education, enforcement, and funding actions.
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NMDOT Traffic Safety Division Annual Report (2022 Archived PDF)
Documents statewide traffic-safety grants, enforcement, education, DWI courts, crash records, motorcycle and occupant-protection programs, including Albuquerque Police Department cases and Bernalillo County court initiatives during federal fiscal year 2022.
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New Mexico Uniform Crash Report Instruction Manual (2019 Archived PDF)
Defines New Mexico crash-reporting thresholds, terminology, roadway and vehicle fields, pedestrian and bicyclist actions, contributing factors, diagrams, and submission rules underlying Albuquerque-area crash datasets and safety analysis.
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New Mexico Occupant Seat Belt Observation Study (2025 Archived PDF)
Reports statistically designed daytime and nighttime seat-belt observations, statewide trends, vehicle and occupant comparisons, and nighttime sampling that includes Bernalillo County among seven selected New Mexico counties.
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Statewide Traffic Records System
Connects users to New Mexico crash maps, annual and DWI reports, pedestrian and bicyclist dashboards, fatality reports, data dictionaries, and the request process for Albuquerque-specific crash records not already published by UNM.
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Walk Safe New Mexico: Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
Presents NMDOT’s adopted statewide pedestrian safety plan, five-year action framework, design and training resources, and implementation materials addressing infrastructure, agency processes, education, and proven pedestrian-safety countermeasures.
School Transportation Safety#
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APS Vision Zero for Youth Action Plan (2022–23 archived PDF)
Establishes APS’s districtwide framework for eliminating student traffic deaths through safety curriculum, awareness campaigns, student mapping, interagency coordination, measurable actions, equity-focused pilot schools, and annual progress evaluation. Its appendix preserves the student mapping-session report and documented travel-safety concerns.
Official APS PDF · APS Vision Zero for Youth Initiative · APS Links and Resources
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APS Vision Zero Board Policy Discussion Brief (2022 archived PDF)
Documents the Board of Education briefing on the federally funded initiative, its curriculum and awareness objectives, pilot-school selection, regional partnerships, expected products, funding, schedule, and evaluation framework.
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APS Vision Zero Superintendent Letter of Support (2022 archived PDF)
Records the superintendent’s formal support for APS Vision Zero for Youth and its coordinated approach to safer walking, bicycling, school transportation, traffic-safety education, and community awareness.
APS Vision Zero Task Force Records#
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Task Force Meeting 1 Notes (2021 archived PDF)
Records the task force’s September 2021 kickoff, including Safe Routes to School funding, pilot-school selection, student mapping, curriculum development, public awareness, interagency roles, equity considerations, and initial implementation questions.
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Task Force Meeting 2 Notes (2022 archived PDF)
Documents the May 2022 curriculum session, updated pilot schools, student-engagement methods, Safe Routes to School coordination, curriculum structure, teacher feedback, community partnerships, and action-plan development.
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Task Force Meeting 3 Notes (2022 archived PDF)
Records the August 2022 review of the draft action plan, including goals, implementation measures, municipal partnerships, student engagement, data integrity, equity, infrastructure responsibilities, evaluation, and task-force feedback.
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Task Force Meeting 4 Notes (2023 archived PDF)
Documents the February 2023 awareness-campaign session, stakeholder responsibilities, student-created safety messaging, pilot-school participation, curriculum progress, campaign media, implementation needs, and coordination with Albuquerque-area partners.
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Task Force Meeting 5 Notes (2023 archived PDF)
Documents the May 2023 curriculum-implementation session, including teacher feedback, revised lessons, classroom placement, community-school coordination, public outreach, future scaling, and integration with the APS initiative website.