Download or read book A Planning Level Model for Assessing Pedestrian Safety written by Khajonsak Jermprapai and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crash-prediction models are useful tools to identify locations that have higher risk of crashes and to prioritize projects. The focus of this study was on developing macroscopic or planning-level models for pedestrian safety. Crash data from multiple years (2005 -2009) and land use data from the entire state of Florida are used in developing models for pedestrian crashes. Four models were developed to determine the crash frequency for each census block group. The estimated models capture the effects of several socioeconomic, transportation, land use, and contextual variables. The models were used to determine the expected number of crashes for all the census block groups in the state. This predictive assessment exercise serves to highlight the value of planning models. Specifically, if safety assessments are made purely based on crash history, all the locations with zero observed crashes will be deemed equally safe. However, the predictive model highlights that there is a significant variability in crash risk across these locations because of differences in land use and socioeconomic patterns. Thus the planning models developed in this study can be powerful tools in statewide safety funds allocation and prioritization of safety projects.

Download or read book Planning Community Pedestrian Safety Programs An Agenda for Action written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing Pedestrian Crash Risk and Injury Severity in Concentrated Urban Environments written by Hafez Alavi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking is an indispensable travel mode in the transport system; almost all road users are pedestrians for all or part of their trip. It is also among the most environmentally sustainable transport modes and its promotion has been rigorously advocated since the rise of concern about global warming and environmental degeneration. Moreover, as a form of physical activity, walking has considerable benefit for public and individual health. Notwithstanding the positive aspects of walking, there are a number of barriers preventing people from walking as a mode of travel, with the lack of safety chief amongst these. The focus of this thesis, therefore, was to address the pedestrian safety problem by identifying factors associated with pedestrian crash occurrence and with the severity of injuries sustained.The Central Business District (CBD) of Melbourne was selected as the case study for this research. This site has a high level of pedestrian activities and high pedestrian crash rate. The PhD research aims to address the following questions:1.What is an appropriate design for a pedestrian road safety data system to collect the data necessary for pedestrian safety analysis in the Melbourne CBD?2.Using the tools developed in 1, what are the risk factors for pedestrian crashes in the Melbourne CBD:a)What are the characteristics of the physical and socioeconomic environment and the transport system that influence the occurrence of pedestrian crashes?b)What are the characteristics of the physical and socioeconomic environment, the transport system, road users (drivers/pedestrians) and traffic that influence the severity of injury sustained by pedestrians in traffic crashes?A principal contribution of this research was the development of a conceptual framework for studying pedestrian safety. A review of the available pedestrian data systems revealed that data collection practices are non-systematic and irregular, and the existing data, particularly pedestrian exposure to risk, is not sufficient for pedestrian safety analyses. Thus, a methodology was developed to estimate pedestrian exposure at CBD intersections and midblocks using existing data sources and a set of complimentary data collections. Pedestrian crash risk at CBD intersections and midblocks were evaluated, separately: during daytime hours, or alternatively called working hours, (7-18), and hours of darkness, or alternatively called non-working hours, (0-6 and 19-23). Findings showed that pedestrian crash risk is multi-factorial in nature. Different sets of factors were found to be associated with risk across different space-time frameworks. For intersections, the three most powerful predictors of pedestrian collision rate during daytime hours were the characteristics of land-use, road and public transport, respectively. Similarly, during hours of darkness, the rate was highly correlated with the characteristics of land-use and road. For midblocks, the most powerful predictor of the frequency of pedestrian crashes during daytime hours was public transport, followed by land-use and road characteristics, respectively. In contrast, midblock pedestrian collision rates during hours of darkness were mainly predicted by the length of the midblock, followed by land-use and public transport characteristics, respectively.Another key finding of the pedestrian crash risk analyses was that different measures of pedestrian exposure influence pedestrian crashes at intersections compared with midblocks. While traffic volume (Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)) played a significant role in developing pedestrian crash risk models at intersections, the product of "pedestrian road crossing counts" and AADT (PxAADT) was the influential pedestrian exposure measure in the midblocks daytime-hours risk model. Results of the pedestrian injury severity analyses also revealed a diverse set of factors associated with pedestrian injury severity for different space-time frameworks. The correlates of major pedestrian trauma at intersections were time of day, vehicle movement, pedestrian age, vehicle colour, and land-use and public transport characteristics. For midblocks, influential factors were time of day, the characteristics of land-use, and the interaction of day of week and speed zone.The injury severity data reported by the police for pedestrian crashes in the Melbourne CBD (2000-2009) was found to be not consistent with hospital data. Thus, using the police data can lead to misleading conclusions about pedestrian injury risk factors. Findings of this research provide evidence-based insight into the pedestrian safety problem in the Melbourne CBD and have implications for other concentrated urban areas. This knowledge can be applied by road safety researchers and practitioners to modify existing design practices to achieve a safer pedestrian environment and to facilitate the Victorian Government's strategic plan for a Safe System for all road users. In addition, six new Central Activity Districts and 26 principal activity centres are projected to be designed and implemented by 2030 in Melbourne. The outcomes of this research provide critical, new information to enhance the pedestrian safety design guidelines for these new developments.

Download or read book Model Pedestrian Safety Program written by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Implementation Division and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India written by Lelitha Devi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the volume include characterization of conventional and innovative pavement materials, operational effects of road geometry, user impact of multimodal transport projects, spatial analysis of travel patterns, socio-economic impacts of transport projects, analysis of transportation policy and planning for safety and security, technology enabled models of mobility services, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers alike.

Download or read book Pedestrians 2014 written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2464 consists of papers that address a safety performance study of shared pedestrian and vehicle space; impacts of alternative yield sign placement on pedestrian safety; mitigation of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at stop-controlled t-intersections; development of a low-cost methodology for evaluating pedestrian safety in support of complete streets policy implementation; walkability indicators for pedestrian-friendly designs; driver approach speed and its impact on driver yielding to pedestrian behavior at unsignalized crosswalks; pedestrian protection airbags; driver and pedestrian behaviors at enhanced, multilane, midblock pedestrian crossings; and influences of light rail, built environment, and residential self-selection on pedestrian travel. This issue of the TRR also examines pedestrian and bicyclist compliance and safety impacts of walk modes at signalized intersections; long-term impacts of California Safe Routes to School program; impacts of intersection design on pedestrians' choice to cross on red; data-driven approaches to coordinate engineering, education, and enforcement; a planning-level model for assessing pedestrian safety; walking behaviors by trip purposes; a perception-based walkability index; far-side audible beaconing of accessible pedestrian signals; and closed-course study of driver detection of pedestrians beyond flashing beacons within sign assembly.

Download or read book Guide for the Planning Design and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pedestrian Facilities Users Guide Providing Safety and Mobility written by Charles V. Zegeer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is intended to provide information on how to identify safety and mobility needs for pedestrians with the roadway right-of-way. Useful for engineers, planners, safety professionals and decision-makers, the guide covers such topics as: the Walking Environment including sidewalks, curb ramps, crosswalks, roadway lighting and pedestrian over and under passes; Roadway Design including bicycle lanes, roadway narrowing, reducing the number of lanes, one-way/two-way streets, right-turn slip lanes and raised medians; Intersections with roundabouts, T-intersections and median barriers; and Traffic calming designs.

Download or read book Strategic Planning Report on Pedestrian Safety written by Nova Scotia. Task Force on Pedestrian Safety and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document analyzes pedestrian accident statistics for both the Province and the City of Halifax, and considers information pertinent to pedestrian attitudes. It also analyzes pedestrian control devices, reviews existing legislation and enforcement practices relating to pedestrian right-of-way, and reviews existing education programs on pedestrian safety.

Download or read book Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling written by Dominique Lord and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling comprehensively covers the key elements needed to make effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway safety data analysis in a single. reference. The book includes all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting and assembling data to developing models and evaluating analysis results. It discusses the challenges of working with crash and naturalistic data, identifies problems and proposes well-researched methods to solve them. Finally, the book examines the nuances associated with safety data analysis and shows how to best use the information to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes. Complements the Highway Safety Manual by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Provides examples and case studies for most models and methods Includes learning aids such as online data, examples and solutions to problems

Download or read book Functional Pavement Design written by Sandra Erkens and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Functional Pavement Design is a collections of 186 papers from 27 different countries, which were presented at the 4th Chinese-European Workshops (CEW) on Functional Pavement Design (Delft, the Netherlands, 29 June-1 July 2016). The focus of the CEW series is on field tests, laboratory test methods and advanced analysis techniques, and cover analysis, material development and production, experimental characterization, design and construction of pavements. The main areas covered by the book include: - Flexible pavements - Pavement and bitumen - Pavement performance and LCCA - Pavement structures - Pavements and environment - Pavements and innovation - Rigid pavements - Safety - Traffic engineering Functional Pavement Design is for contributing to the establishment of a new generation of pavement design methodologies in which rational mechanics principles, advanced constitutive models and advanced material characterization techniques shall constitute the backbone of the design process. The book will be much of interest to professionals and academics in pavement engineering and related disciplines.

Download or read book Use of Advanced Techniques to Estimate Zonal Level Safety Planning Models and Examine Their Temporal Transferability written by Alireza Hadayeghi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the traditional planning process has not given much attention to the road safety evaluation of development plans. To make an informed, defensible, and proactive choice between alternative plans and their safety implications, it is necessary to have a procedure for estimating and evaluating safety performance. A procedure is required for examining the influence of the urban network development on road safety, and in particular, determining the effects of the many variables that affect safety in urban planning.Safety planning models can provide a decision-support tool that facilitates the assessment of the safety implications of alternative network plans. The first objective of this research study is to develop safety planning models that are consistent with the regional models commonly used for urban transportation planning. Geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR), full-Bayesian semiparametric additive (FBSA), and traditional generalized linear modelling (GLM) techniques are used to develop the models. The study evaluates how well each model is able to handle spatial variations in the relationship between collision explanatory variables and the number of collisions in a zone. The evaluation uses measures of goodness of fit (GOF) and finds that the GWPR and FBSA models perform much better than the conventional GLM approach. There is little difference between the GOF values for the FBSA and GWPR models.The second objective of this research study is to examine the temporal transferability of the safety planning models and alternative updating methods. The updating procedures examine the Bayesian approach and application of calibration factors. The results show that the models are not temporally transferable in a strict statistical sense. However, relative measures of transferability indicate that the transferred models yield useful information in the application context. The results also show that the updated safety planning models using the Bayesian approach predict the number of collisions better than the calibration factor procedure.

Download or read book Development Implementation and Evaluation of a Pedestrian Safety Zone for Elderly Pedestrians written by Richard D. Blomberg and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traffic Engineering Handbook written by ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a complete look into modern traffic engineering solutions Traffic Engineering Handbook, Seventh Edition is a newly revised text that builds upon the reputation as the go-to source of essential traffic engineering solutions that this book has maintained for the past 70 years. The updated content reflects changes in key industry standards, and shines a spotlight on the needs of all users, the design of context-sensitive roadways, and the development of more sustainable transportation solutions. Additionally, this resource features a new organizational structure that promotes a more functionally-driven, multimodal approach to planning, designing, and implementing transportation solutions. A branch of civil engineering, traffic engineering concerns the safe and efficient movement of people and goods along roadways. Traffic flow, road geometry, sidewalks, crosswalks, cycle facilities, shared lane markings, traffic signs, traffic lights, and more—all of these elements must be considered when designing public and private sector transportation solutions. Explore the fundamental concepts of traffic engineering as they relate to operation, design, and management Access updated content that reflects changes in key industry-leading resources, such as the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), AASSHTO Policy on Geometric Design, Highway Safety Manual (HSM), and Americans with Disabilities Act Understand the current state of the traffic engineering field Leverage revised information that homes in on the key topics most relevant to traffic engineering in today's world, such as context-sensitive roadways and sustainable transportation solutions Traffic Engineering Handbook, Seventh Edition is an essential text for public and private sector transportation practitioners, transportation decision makers, public officials, and even upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are studying transportation engineering.

Download or read book Transportation Planning Handbook written by ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary approach to transportation planningfundamentals The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive,practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental conceptsof transportation planning alongside proven techniques. This newfourth edition is more strongly focused on serving the needs of allusers, the role of safety in the planning process, andtransportation planning in the context of societal concerns,including the development of more sustainable transportationsolutions. The content structure has been redesigned with a newformat that promotes a more functionally driven multimodal approachto planning, design, and implementation, including guidance towardthe latest tools and technology. The material has been updated toreflect the latest changes to major transportation resources suchas the HCM, MUTCD, HSM, and more, including the most current ADAaccessibility regulations. Transportation planning has historically followed the rationalplanning model of defining objectives, identifying problems,generating and evaluating alternatives, and developing plans.Planners are increasingly expected to adopt a moremulti-disciplinary approach, especially in light of the risingimportance of sustainability and environmental concerns. This bookpresents the fundamentals of transportation planning in amultidisciplinary context, giving readers a practical reference forday-to-day answers. Serve the needs of all users Incorporate safety into the planning process Examine the latest transportation planning softwarepackages Get up to date on the latest standards, recommendations, andcodes Developed by The Institute of Transportation Engineers, thisbook is the culmination of over seventy years of transportationplanning solutions, fully updated to reflect the needs of achanging society. For a comprehensive guide with practical answers,The Transportation Planning Handbook is an essentialreference.

Download or read book Pedestrian Safety Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transport Planning and Traffic Safety written by Geetam Tiwari and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recognition of the importance of road safety as a major health issue, the World Health Organization has declared 2011-2021 the Decade of Safety Action. Several countries in Europe, North America, and Asia have been successful in reducing fatalities and injuries due to road traffic crashes. However, many low-income countries continue to experience high rates of traffic fatalities and injuries. Transport Planning and Traffic Safety: Making Cities, Roads, and Vehicles Safer offers a source book for road safety training courses as well as an introductory textbook for graduate-level courses on road safety taught in engineering institutes. It brings together the international experiences and lessons learned from countries which have been successful in reducing traffic crashes and their applicability in low-income countries. The content is based on lectures delivered during an international course on transportation planning and traffic safety, sponsored annually by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The book is interdisciplinary and aimed at professionals—traffic and road engineers, vehicle designers, law enforcers, and transport planners. The authors examine trends in performance of OECD countries and highlight the public health and systems approach of traffic safety with the vulnerable road user in focus. Topics include land use (transportation planning, mobility, and safety), safety education and legislation, accident analysis, road safety research, human tolerance to injury, vehicle design, safety in construction zones, safety in urban areas, traffic calming, public transportation, safety laws and policies, and pre-hospital care of the injured.