Comprehensive study to reduce pedestrian crashes in Florida.

Details

• Creators:
  Alluri, Priyanka ; Haleem, Kirolos ; Gan, Albert ; Lavasani, Mohammad ; Saha, Dibakar
• Corporate Creators:
  Florida International University. Lehman Center for Transportation Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Countermeasures Crash Causes Crash Data Crash Locations Injury Severity Pedestrian Safety Pedestrian Vehicle Crashes
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDK80 977-32
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Pedestrian crashes are a major traffic safety concern in Florida. This project aims to improve pedestrian safety on
  
  Florida’s state roads by identifying crash patterns and contributing factors at both the statewide and site-specific
  
  level and proposing potential countermeasures to reduce pedestrian crashes. The specific project objectives include:
  
  (1) perform a comprehensive review of existing pedestrian safety studies; (2) identify statewide pedestrian crash
  
  patterns and causes; (3) identify factors contributing to pedestrian injury severity; and (4) identify and analyze
  
  pedestrian high crash locations at both signalized and non-signalized locations for crash causes and propose the
  
  potential countermeasures for these crash causes.
  
  A total of 6,434 pedestrian crashes that occurred on state roads during 2008-2010 were identified and analyzed.
  
  Police reports for these crashes were carefully reviewed to obtain additional crash details, including those from
  
  police descriptions and illustrative sketches. In addition, additional roadway information not available from the state
  
  roadway inventory such as types of crosswalks were visually identified. Both of these efforts were performed using
  
  two in-house web-based systems developed to facilitate police report review and data collection.
  
  At the statewide level, crash patterns as they relate to pedestrian, vehicle, traffic control, roadway, and environmental
  
  characteristics were analyzed. As pedestrian crashes are typically severe, a mixed logit model was developed to
  
  identify factors contributing to pedestrian injury severity at signalized and non-signalized locations. At the sitespecific level, pedestrian high crash locations were identified by identifying clusters of pedestrian crashes at both
  
  signalized and non-signalized locations. Both district-wide and statewide pedestrian high crash locations were
  
  identified. The statewide locations were further analyzed to identify location-specific crash causes and
  
  countermeasures.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26919/dot_26919_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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