VIAWARN is on a mission to eliminate trucking accidents by providing data-driven solutions.
The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030
In August 2020, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, with the ambitious goal of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and serious injuries worldwide by 2030. The initiative responds to a sobering reality: road traffic crashes kill approximately 1.35 million people every year — making them the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5 to 29 — and injure up to 50 million more.
The UN’s Global Plan for the Decade is organized around five interconnected pillars:
- Road Safety Management — strengthening governance, data systems, and funding for road safety
- Safe Roads and Mobility — designing infrastructure that protects all road users, including vulnerable ones
- Safe Vehicles — accelerating the adoption of safety technologies in vehicles
- Safe Road Users — improving behavior through legislation, enforcement, and education
- Post-Crash Response — improving emergency care and rehabilitation after crashes occur
How ViaWarn Supports the Decade of Action
Commercial trucking presents a disproportionate safety challenge. Large trucks are involved in approximately 11% of all fatal road crashes in the United States despite representing a fraction of registered vehicles. The consequences extend beyond the drivers themselves — crashes involving heavy freight vehicles cause significant loss of life among other road users, generate substantial economic costs, and undermine supply chain reliability.
ViaWarn’s platform directly advances several pillars of the Decade of Action:
Pillar 1 — Road Safety Management: Data Where It Matters
Effective road safety management depends on timely, accurate data. ViaWarn aggregates live road condition feeds from DOT and Ministry of Transportation agencies across the United States, Canada, and Mexico — consolidating data that has historically been fragmented across dozens of incompatible agency systems. By making this information accessible in a unified, structured format, ViaWarn equips fleet operators with the situational awareness they need to manage driver safety proactively rather than reactively.
Pillar 2 — Safe Roads and Mobility: Turning Infrastructure Data into Driver Awareness
The Safe System approach recognizes that roads and the information around them must compensate for human error. A driver who receives no warning about an active construction zone, an icy bridge deck, or a multi-vehicle incident ahead cannot make a safe decision in time. ViaWarn closes this gap by delivering real-time hazard data — roadwork zones, road conditions, weather alerts, emergency advisories, and more — directly to the people operating vehicles on those roads. The same data that DOT agencies publish to improve road safety is surfaced at the moment and place it is most needed.
Pillar 4 — Safe Road Users: Empowering Informed Decisions
The Decade of Action calls for behavior change supported by better information. Professional truck drivers face route decisions involving hundreds of miles of varying road conditions, often in unfamiliar territory and under schedule pressure. ViaWarn provides drivers and dispatchers with category-specific alerts — including restrictions, weight limits, clearances, and weigh station status — so that compliance and safety decisions are grounded in current conditions rather than outdated information or guesswork. Informed drivers are safer drivers.
Our Commitment
ViaWarn was founded on the belief that the technology to save lives already exists — what has been missing is the integration, accessibility, and delivery of that technology to the people who need it most. Every provider we onboard, every data category we surface, and every map we render is a step toward a North American road network where no trucker faces a preventable hazard without warning.
The Decade of Action ends in 2030. We intend to do our part.
For more information on the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, visit the WHO Road Safety page.