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Managing pedestrian safety II : A case-control study of collision locations on state routes in King County and Seattle, Washington
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2008-01-01
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TRIS Online Accession Number:1088315
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OCLC Number:316921482
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Edition:Final research report
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NTL Classification:NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY;NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-Pedestrians;NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents;
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Abstract:The safety of non-motorized transportation systems is essential to the public acceptance and overall success of Washington State's and local jurisdictions' efforts to reduce congestion. The State's and the jurisdictions' goals to increase non-SOV (single occupant vehicle) travel options and the use of transit, need to be combined with those to insure the safety of these alternatives. This project is the continuation of current work developing and using a database of 13,914 individual pedestrian and bike collisions. This database is the first in the nation to have geocoded individual collisions in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the entire State (1999-2004). Having the precise location of a large number of collisions over a period of several years promises that significant progress can be made in explaining factors associated with collisions and in identifying underlying causes. The new Washington State collision database is particularly momentous in that the State also has some of the most advanced data on road characteristics and land uses associated with trip origins and destinations. These latter data are accessible in GIS for all populated areas of the State and available at the finest resolution. In the proposed project, current research on road design and land use correlates of collision frequency and severity will be augmented by : 1. Analyses of pedestrian motor vehicle collisions on city streets; 2. Analyses of bicycle motor vehicle collisions on SR and on city streets; 3. Longitudinal analyses of the collision data to identify potential causes of collisions; 4. Scenario planning examinations of safety-dependent locations, such as (a) freight routes, (b) transit hubs, (c) areas that are experiencing major development and growth, (d) areas subject to substantial infrastructure investments, and (e) areas with different levels of transportation efficiency (measured as travel options available beyond SOV travel, and derived from the Transportation Efficient Land Use Mapping Index TELUMI). /Abstract from report summary page/
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