Assessment of sidewalk/bicycle-lane gaps with safety and developing statewide pedestrian crash rates.

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• Creators:
  Radwan, Essam ; Abou-Senna, Hatem ; Mohamed, Ayman ; Navarro, Alex ; Wu, Jiawei ; Minaei, Negaar S. ; Gonzalez, Luis
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Central Florida. Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation
• Contributors:
  Moore, John ; Garcia, Heather
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation. Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Bicycle safety
  • Sidewalks
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Geographic information systems
  • Sidewalk gaps
  • bike lane gaps
  • pedestrian crash rates
  • safety prioritization tool
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Department of Transportation. Research Center
• Abstract:
  Pedestrian and bicycle safety have emerged to be of major concern to federal and selected states in the U.S. With the ; increased emphasis on the multimodal transportation, pedestrian and bicycle safety has become more common for ; governmental agencies to address and prioritize for strategic planning and construction. It was crucial to address the ; pedestrian-vehicular conflict within Florida as it was reported in the “Dangerous by Design” report as having the ; highest four (4) pedestrian incident locations in the country. This research has two objectives: (1) Developing a safety ; prioritization tool that would assist governmental agencies in the prioritization of sidewalk gaps and/or bicycle-lane ; gaps based on a balanced approach between safety needs, socioeconomic evaluation, operational constraints, and fiscal ; assessment. (2) The development of statewide averages for pedestrian crash rates that would give transportation ; planners and engineers a barometer indicating how the Districts compare against other areas. A wide array of ; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) layers associated with the sidewalk/bicycle lane gaps and the safety data was ; secured by FDOT. The results showed that absence of sidewalk along roadway segments is one of the main factors that ; have a significant impact on the expected number of pedestrian crashes at a specific location. The pilot studies ; conducted for the roadways and intersections revealed several critical safety locations within District Five when ; compared to the developed statewide average rates. These locations require further investigation to identify main ; causes and assess the mitigations that could potentially lead to improvements.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BDV24-977-07
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/30998/dot_30998_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.66 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:688a0087f7ef15d8e64337e0ddc6b90858a62005e80c44660c57d1539a901ef6