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Survey Form - Pedestrian Safety Program Name: _____________________________ Title: _________________________________ Agency: _____________________________ Date: ________________________________ 1 Does you agency have a pedestrian safety program in place? 2 Who heads the program? If you do not have a formal pedestrian safety program, please list the person within your organization handles pedestrian safety issues. 3 Do you have any documentation (e.g., studies, needs evaluations, project documentation) of the pedestrian safety program that you could send us? (Please list titles on opposite side or separate sheet.) 4 What type of data do you collect for your pedestrian program (e.g., accidents, accident location, number of pedestrians)? yes Name: Title: Telephone: Email: yes no no How do you collect them? Who collects/ inputs the pedestrian safety data into your pedestrian safety program? Name: Title: Telephone: Email: 5 What tools (software) do you use for pedestrian safety analysis? 6 How is the data stored? How long is the data stored? 7 Does your organization have a formal policy concerning pedestrian safety? If yes, please enclose a copy with this questionnaire. 8 Please list other agencies/organizations that are involved in pedestrian safety in your geographic area? (Please list on opposite side or separate sheet if needed.) yes Agency: Contact person: Telephone: Email: no NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 116
NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Interview form Date: _____________ Time: ____________________ Host agency: _______________________________ Location: ________________________________________ Study team participants: _______________________________ Agencies at interview Introduction: The information gathered from this interview will be included in the NYMTC report on the status of pedestrian safety in the region and will be used for developing needs and determining future steps in promoting pedestrian safety. Where it is pertinent, information will be attributed to the agency providing it. The names of individuals will be kept confidential. 1. Attendees by sign in sheet. 2. Do you have an existing Pedestrian Safety Program / Forum? What is the structure and mission of that forum What is the structure of the Traffic Safety Board within your County (if applicable). NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 117
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New York Metropolitan Transportatio
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1. Report No. 2. Government Accessi
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1
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Table of Figures 2.1 Ten Year Trend
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I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Study Origin an
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in the United States; the 2004 data
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Table 1.1 Organizations That Were I
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II. BACKGROUND ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
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Figure 2.1 Ten Year Trend in Pedest
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Figure 2.3 Historic Trend in Annual
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than fatality rates.) The most noti
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III. ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEDESTRIAN S
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• Updating and creating new stand
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The New York State Metropolitan Pla
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getting input from people who have
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i. 20% of priority crash locations
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located by reference marker (the sm
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that the proper signage and other t
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and funding has been secured to adv
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Westchester County and NYSDOT have
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programs in each borough. The NYCDO
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IV. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES IN THE
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Drivers: Typical statements about d
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• Ability to lift foot high decre
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The national data indicates that th
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Vendors Vendors set up their carts
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Table 4.1 Continued Staten Island H
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4.4 Existing Infrastructure and Lan
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Some sidewalks are poorly designed
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pedestrian design. At least one per
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Crosswalks need to be more visible.
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V COUNTERMEASURES AND STRATEGIES Th
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timing and street lighting. New Jer
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Providing Sidewalks: Walking-along-
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the pedestrian crash rate was signi
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Speed management through engineerin
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Page 89 and 90: 5.2.5 Visibility To insure safety,
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Page 99 and 100: 5.3.3 Educating Local Officials and
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Page 103 and 104: VI. FUNDING Funding for pedestrian
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Page 109 and 110: VII. RECOMMENDATIONS As noted in Ch
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Page 115 and 116: REFERENCES American Council of the
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Page 129 and 130: Appendix B: PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CONTA
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Page 135 and 136: Appendix C: TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD CO
Page 137 and 138: Appendix D: ON LINE PEDESTRIAN SAFE
Page 139 and 140: FARS Query System is an interactive
Page 141 and 142: Education and Enforcement Counterme
Page 143 and 144: Appendix E: NEW YORK CITY FATATLIES
Page 145 and 146: Appendix F: Prompt Lists for Pedest
Page 147 and 148: Pedestrian Safety Prompt List Gener
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