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Pedestrian Safety Planning How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, 2006: http://www.walkinginfo.org/pp/howtoguide2006.pdf Exemplary Pedestrian Plans: http://www.walkinginfo.org/pp/exem2005.htm Zone Guide for Pedestrian Safety, NHTSA: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/ped/ZoneGuideWeb/pages/index.htm Improving the Pedestrian Environment through Innovative Transportation Design, ITE, 2005: http://www.ite.org/activeliving/ImprovingPedestrian.pdf Traffic Calming for Communities: Selected Reports: http://www.ite.org/traffic/tcstate.htm Examples of pedestrian plans from the NYMTC Region New York State Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan: http://www.dot.state.ny.us/safety/chspa.html Chapter 9: Making Walking and Street Crossing Safer: http://www.dot.state.ny.us/safety/files/ch09.pdf Mid-Hudson South Region Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, 2001. http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/planning/documents/Bikeped/master%20plan.pdf Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Study: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/dntnbklyntraf.html NJ Statewide Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan: Phase 2: http://www.bikemap.com/RBA/NJBikePed.pdf Data Sources for Pedestrian Safety National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), a subsidiary of NHTSA, has statistical reports on traffic safety in general and on many special topics. Their home page is at: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.f00599ac343cbdd24ec86e10dba046a0/ Resources available from the NCSA web page: Traffic Safety Facts 2005 is the current issue of an annual report on traffic fatalities and injuries. It and fact sheets on specific safety issues are available at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810624.PDF NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 130
FARS Query System is an interactive system for querying the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, a national database composed of all fatal crash reports provided by the states from 1994 to 2004. Detailed analyses can be done for national, state or county jurisdictions. It does not have injury crashes and does not allow cross year analysis. The entry point for the system is at: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/main.cfm Governors Traffic Safety Committee provides safety data for each county for the years 2001 through 2004 in PDF format. The data includes both injury and fatal crashes. The most recent report is: Traffic Safety Data Reports for 2005 by County available at: http://www.safeny.com/05data/datapack05.htm Transportation Safety Statistical Report 2003-2004, NYMTC, Latest annual report on traffic safety in the NYMTC region: http://www.nymtc.org/files/2003_04report.pdf Transportation Alternatives has plotted crash data cumulative for 1995 through 2001 for New York City on Crash Stat maps. The maps show fatal crashes based on NYSDOT data. There also tables of ten worst intersections for fatalities and injuries for both pedestrians and bicycle crashes on their web page. The maps and tables are available at: http://www.transalt.org/crashmaps/index.html NYS troopers TRACS describes the TraCS (Traffic and Criminal System), a system that is currently being implemented to collect traffic crash data for New York State. The site does not include data: http://www.tracs.troopers.state.ny.us/ Pedestrian and Bicycle Data Collection in United States Communities: Quantifying Use, Surveying Users, and Documenting Facility Extent, Highway Safety Research Center, UNC, for FHWA, 2005: http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/pdf/casestudies/PBIC_Data_Collection_Case_Studies.pdf Design of Pedestrian Facilities See also the sites listed under General Sources of Pedestrian Safety Information. Design and Safety of Pedestrian Facilities, Charles V. Zegeer, Institute of Transportation Engineers, March 1998: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/designsafety.pdf Pedestrian Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities: A Brief Look at Guidelines and Practices Used, F. Wegmann, University of Tennessee, 2004: http://stc.utk.edu/htm/pdf%20files/ped.pdf Best Practices in Accessible Rights-of-Way Design and Construction, from Accessible Rights-of Way: a Design Guide; Access Board, November 1999: http://www.access-board.gov/prowac/guide/PROWGuide.htm Improving Conditions for Bicycling and Walking: A Best Practices Report, Rails to Trails Conservancy and Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle professionals, for FHWA, 1998: NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 131
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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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nearby streets. Whereas Bus-pedestr
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and have geometric curvature that e
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Roadway narrowings are used to prov
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have experienced a maintenance prob
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measures with specific geographic a
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and 3.0 feet per second more approp
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Figure 5.17 Split Phase Cycle Sourc
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