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http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/intro.pdf Improving Pedestrian Safety at Unsignalized Crossings, NCHRP Report 562, 2006: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_562.pdf NYS Highway Design Manual, Chapter 18: Pedestrian Facility Design: https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page/portal/divisions/engineering/design/dqab/hdm Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 2003 edition, FHWA: http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/html-index.htm Resources from Study Participants Pedestrian Injuries and Fatalities in Nassau County, 2005: http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Health/Docs/PDF/PedestrianWeb1203.pdf New York City Department of Transportation (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/safety.html ) has many on-line documents relevant to pedestrian safety, several of which have been cited in the text of this study. Some of them are listed below: • Safe Streets New York: Traffic Safety Improvements in New York City, April 2006. Annual Report: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/pdf/safetyrpt06_part1.pdf • Safe Routes to School Projects: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/saferoutes.html New York City Department of City Planning (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/home.html) also has many relevant documents inlcuding • Subway/Sidewalk Interface Project (with NYC Department of City Planning): http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/transportation/td_projectspedestrian.shtml AAA – examples of traffic calming in the region http://www.aaany.com/safety/traffic/bicycles_and_pedestrians/local_calming_efforts/index.asp The New Jersey Bicycle Pedestrian Resource Project: http://www.njbikeped.org/ The New Jersey Bicycle Pedestrian On-Line Resources, including sections on Pedestrian and Safety: http://www.njbikeped.org/body.php?page=onlinelib NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 132
Education and Enforcement Countermeasures That Work, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, January 2007. It is aimed at assisting state highway safety offices in identifying effective countermeasures, with an emphasis on educational and enforcement programs. Chapter eight focuses on pedestrian safety: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/Traffic%20Injury%20Control/Articles/Associate d%20Files/CountermeasuresThatWork_2007.pdf “Promoting Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety to Hispanic Audiences,” FHWA and NHTSA, November 2005: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/toc.htm Safety City, Description of the NYCDOT program: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/safecity.html Educational materials aimed at the public On-Line Video Library maintained by The New Jersey Bicycle Pedestrian Resource Project, Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University: http://www.njbikeped.org/body.php?page=videolib A Citizen’s Guide to Roundabouts is a 12 page booklet explaining roundabouts to laymen published by NYSDOT. It includes on how to navigate a roundabout for motorists, trucks, pedestrians, and bicyclists. An on-line version is available at: https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page/portal/main/roundabouts Traffic Safety is a 2 Way Street, An educational site sponsored by NYCDOT: http://www.trafficsafetyfornyc.org/ NYCDOT Catalog of Safety Materials: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/safety_form.html Pedestrian Safety Campaign, materials for a campaign, FHWA: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_program/pedcampaign/index.htm Traffic Safety Material Catalog of educational materials, NHTSA: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/outreach/media/catalog/Index.cfm?CFID=388&CFTOKEN=71984 627 NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 133
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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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Combined Automatic and Actuated Sig
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