Model Pedestrian Safety Program
User's Guide
Source: Federal Highway Administration
The six steps of this Model Pedestrian Safety Program are as follows:
- Step 1, Problem Identification, describes techniques for determining the extent of the pedestrian safety problem through accident and behavioral data collection and evaluation.
- Step 2, Identify Alternative Solutions, lists advantages, disadvantages, target populations and locations, and implementation considerations for numerous countermeasure known to be effective in solving particular pedestrian safety problems.
- Step 3, Select the Best Alternative, describes a procedure for comparing anticipated benefits and costs of possible alternatives and selecting the best alternatives.
- Step 4, Implement Selected Alternative, discusses the organizational, scheduling, support, and financial aspects of developing a successful safety program.
- Step 5, Evaluate Implemented Alternative, identifies methods for determining the effectiveness of implemented countermeasures.
- Step 6, Maintain the Pedestrian Safety Program, is the feedback to Step 1. Continual watch of the safety situation must be maintained.
