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Table 2.1 Total Traffic and Pedestrian Crashes in 2004 Jurisdiction Total Crashes Pedestrian crashes Total injuries Pedestrian injuries Total fatalities Pedestrian fatalities Nassau 23,675 1,001 22,462 996 121 34 Putnam 1,643 14 1,275 13 8 2 Rockland 4,517 154 4,020 157 33 3 Suffolk 22,044 600 21,420 881 171 41 Westchester 12,499 597 10,025 605 63 14 Suburban Counties 64,378 2,366 59,202 2,652 396 94 Bronx 11,623 1,587 13,511 1,556 56 30 Brooklyn 22,119 3,613 27,074 3,546 91 52 Manhattan 14,435 3,204 14,671 3,173 47 35 Queens 22,478 2,185 24,544 2,191 81 30 Staten Island 4,894 373 5,104 374 23 8 New York City 75,549 10,962 84,904 10,840 298 155 NYMTC Region 139,927 13,328 144,106 13,492 694 249 New York State 232,758 15,864 220,837 15,678 1,495 328 Source: GTSC, 2006A. Table 2.2 Pedestrian Crashes per Residential Population in 2004 Pedestrian crashes per 100,000 population Pedestrian injuries per 100,000 population Pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 population Jurisdiction Nassau 75.09 74.71 2.55 Putnam 13.93 12.93 1.99 Rockland 52.57 53.60 1.02 Suffolk 40.68 59.73 2.78 Westchester 63.46 64.31 1.49 Suburban Counties 57.12 64.02 2.27 Bronx 116.90 114.61 2.21 Brooklyn 145.32 142.63 2.09 Manhattan 201.10 199.16 2.20 Queens 97.48 97.74 1.34 Staten Island 80.29 80.50 1.72 New York City 134.62 133.12 1.90 NYMTC Region 108.49 109.82 2.03 New York State 82.39 81.42 1.70 Source of data: GTSC. NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 8
Figure 2.1 Ten Year Trend in Pedestrian Fatalities in New York 600 Trend in Pedestrian Fatalities Pedestrian Fatalities 500 400 300 200 100 NYMTC Region New York State 0 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 Source of DATA: FARS. Figure 2.2 Ten Year Trend in Fatalities in NYMTC Region Trend in Pedestrian Fatalities w ithin Region 400 350 Fatalities 300 250 200 150 100 Westchester Suffolk Rockland Putnam Nassau New York City 50 0 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Year Source of data: FARS NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 9
Page 1 and 2: New York Metropolitan Transportatio
Page 3 and 4: 1. Report No. 2. Government Accessi
Page 5 and 6: Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1
Page 7 and 8: Table of Figures 2.1 Ten Year Trend
Page 9 and 10: I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Study Origin an
Page 11 and 12: in the United States; the 2004 data
Page 13 and 14: Table 1.1 Organizations That Were I
Page 15: II. BACKGROUND ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Page 19 and 20: Figure 2.3 Historic Trend in Annual
Page 21 and 22: than fatality rates.) The most noti
Page 23 and 24: III. ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEDESTRIAN S
Page 25 and 26: • Updating and creating new stand
Page 27 and 28: The New York State Metropolitan Pla
Page 29 and 30: getting input from people who have
Page 31 and 32: i. 20% of priority crash locations
Page 33 and 34: located by reference marker (the sm
Page 35 and 36: that the proper signage and other t
Page 37 and 38: and funding has been secured to adv
Page 39 and 40: Westchester County and NYSDOT have
Page 41 and 42: programs in each borough. The NYCDO
Page 43 and 44: IV. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES IN THE
Page 45 and 46: Drivers: Typical statements about d
Page 47 and 48: • Ability to lift foot high decre
Page 49 and 50: The national data indicates that th
Page 51 and 52: Vendors Vendors set up their carts
Page 53 and 54: Table 4.1 Continued Staten Island H
Page 55 and 56: 4.4 Existing Infrastructure and Lan
Page 57 and 58: Some sidewalks are poorly designed
Page 59 and 60: pedestrian design. At least one per
Page 61 and 62: Crosswalks need to be more visible.
Page 63 and 64: V COUNTERMEASURES AND STRATEGIES Th
Page 65 and 66: 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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5.2.5 Visibility To insure safety,
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Pedestrian Crosswalk Signs: There a
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also be placed next to the stop lin
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Table 5.5 Crash Reduction Factors f
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ask them to act as role models for
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5.3.3 Educating Local Officials and
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• Good planning and organization.
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VI. FUNDING Funding for pedestrian
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York, Projects are chosen by the NY
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NHTSA distributes the Section 402 f
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VII. RECOMMENDATIONS As noted in Ch
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o Safe Routes to School • NYMTC s
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easy to use is residential populati
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REFERENCES American Council of the
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ITE (1998) Design and Safety of Ped
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Parsons Brincherhoff Quade & Dougla
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Intentionally left blank. NYMTC Ped
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Intentionally left blank. NYMTC Ped
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NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Interview f
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12. Do you have any strategies or t
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Appendix B: PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CONTA
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New York City Department of Transpo
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Suffolk County Department of Public
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Appendix C: TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD CO
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Appendix D: ON LINE PEDESTRIAN SAFE
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FARS Query System is an interactive
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Education and Enforcement Counterme
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Appendix E: NEW YORK CITY FATATLIES
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Appendix F: Prompt Lists for Pedest
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Pedestrian Safety Prompt List Gener
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pathway provide direct access to wa
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If so, is there a sign that explain
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