Factors Contributing to Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes on Rural Highways

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Bicycle safety
  • Bicycle crashes
  • Pedestrian vehicle crashes
  • Rural highways
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HRT-10-052
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
• Abstract:
  Approximately 25 percent of nationwide pedestrian and bicycle fatal and injury accidents occur on rural highways. In contrast to urban highways, rural highways have certain characteristics that can be more hazardous to pedestrians and bicyclists, such as higher average vehicle speeds and a lack of sidewalk provisions. Limited research has been conducted on rural highways, where crash types have been defined with more detailed coding than exists on standard police forms and where crash data could be linked with roadway characteristics and traffic counts. ; The goals of this study were to examine the differences between pedestrian and bicycle crashes in urban and rural settings in North Carolina and to identify problem areas (specific crash types and crash locations) on rural highways that are of high priority for safety treatment and treatment development.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40758/dot_40758_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 671.54 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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