More Countermeasures and Safety Effectiveness Resources
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Provides an overview of behavioral strategies and countermeasures in road safety topic areas and provides resources for a deeper look.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides a better understanding of how transportation agencies, stakeholders, and advocates alike could better work together to improve road safety for all users and achieve the goal of zero fatalities. Covers a variety of current topics, including road safety, design standards, and performance assessment.
Read More >Implementing the Proven Safety Countermeasures in Work Zones
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
The purpose of this guide is to provide information to State and local agencies on work zone fatalities in the U.S. and the application of Safe System Approach principles to work zone planning, design, operations, and management
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Explains how FHWA’s Virtual Reality (VR) Laboratory uses 3D simulations to explore safety solutions for road users. Researchers test new technologies and conditions, studying responses to warnings and issues for pedestrians and bicyclists in controlled VR environments. Data helps inform the development of effective safety countermeasures.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Highlights how edge line rumble strips in unprotected bike lanes improve bicyclist safety by alerting distracted drivers when they drift into bike lanes. Notes this approach helps reduce crashes and promotes bicycling in busy urban areas.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides resources, design guidance, research, and best practices for practitioners to identify appropriate countermeasures for improved pedestrian safety.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes the process for selecting and implementing countermeasures and each includes an interactive selection tool and case studies.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Identifies safety countermeasures tailored for rural communities.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Introduces an approach for rapid, low-cost pedestrian safety improvements in high-risk areas.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes proven countermeasures to improve nighttime visibility for nonmotorists where they mix with traffic.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Synthesizes existing research and best practices for crosswalk markings to offer guidance for selecting crosswalk marking designs.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Offers updated information about bicycle lanes as a proven safety countermeasure.
Read More >Separated Bike Lanes on Higher Speed Roadways: A Toolkit and Guide
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides policies and resources to help agencies implement separated bike lanes on higher speed roads.
Read More >Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety in Bus Rapid Transit and High-Priority Bus Corridors
Source: TCRP Synthesis, NASEM
Explores pedestrian and bike safety in areas that implemented Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
Read More >Source: ITE and FHWA
Introduces a five-stage framework to help practitioners better understand the impacts of speed on road safety.
Read More >Low-Cost Pedestrian Safety Zones: Countermeasure Selection Resource
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
This countermeasure resource includes details about options for low-cost treatments that can be deployed in Pedestrian Safety Zones.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
This handbook features eight steps that transportation agencies can take to identify pedestrian safety zones, treat them with low-cost countermeasures, and monitor results.
Read More >Cincinnati Uses Quick-Build Project to Address an Urgent Safety Need
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides a look at a quick-build project in Cincinnati to address an urgent safety need and offers insights that can inform cities interested in implementing quick-build projects.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
This handbook features eight steps that transportation agencies can take to identify pedestrian safety zones, treat them with low-cost countermeasures, and monitor results. The accompanying countermeasure resource includes details about options for low-cost treatments that can be deployed in zones.
Read More >Comprehensive Approach for Measuring and Reporting Serious Traffic Crash Injuries
Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Presents a roadmap for states to develop comprehensive crash-related data linkage systems with special attention to measuring serious injuries in crashes.
Read More >Source: Harris County Engineering Department
Shares video of a trail being constructed in Harris County, TX with imbedded glow stones that will activate throughout the day and glow at night to allow for safer passage of bicyclists.
Read More >Seven Proven Steps to Improve Safety for Walking, Biking, Rolling, and More
Source: CityLab
Lists proven Safe Systems approach steps to increase safety for people walking, biking, and rolling rather than blaming victims: decrease speed limits; focus on design; rewrite the MUTCD; prioritize the most dangerous street; give cities a say; redesign large vehicles; and rethink enforcement.
Read More >Tech Brief: Developing Crash Modification Factors for Separated Bike Lanes
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes a project that evaluates the safety effect for various on-street bicycle facilities, with a focus on the feasibility of developing a crash modification factor for the placement of separated bike lanes/protected bike lanes.
Read More >Tech Brief: Safety Evaluations of Innovative Intersection Designs for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes a project that investigates the operational and safety improvements of innovative intersection retrofitting designs that benefit pedestrians and bicyclists while maintaining a reasonable service to motor vehicles.
Read More >Radar Sensors for Intelligent Multimodal Intersection Traffic Monitoring
Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
Reports on the development of a high-resolution radar sensor that can reliably distinguish between cars and pedestrians and capture counts, speed, and direction of each moving target, despite lighting and weather conditions.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment)
Finds that trip distance, precipitation, and access are fundamental to mode choice and that personal e-scooters and e-bikes emit less CO2 than the transport modes they replace, while shared e-scooters and e-bikes emit more CO2 than the transport modes they replace.
Read More >Safe Intersection Crossing for Pedestrians with Disabilities
Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Reports on the development of two capabilities for PedPal, a smartphone app to help pedestrians with disabilities safely cross signalized intersections: an approach to localization accurate enough to detect pedestrian arrival at a given corner as well as active monitoring of progress during crossing, and scalable vehicle to infrastructure/pedestrian to infrastructure communications.
Read More >Putting the Pieces Together: Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach
Source: Governors Highway Safety Association
Takes a comprehensive approach to include the role of behavioral safety and road user responsibility within a Safe System and includes recommendations showing how organizations and advocates can work together to prevent roadway deaths.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Features multiple articles focusing on the Safe System approach and principles of the approach as a way to center road safety on humans, regardless of mode of travel, and proactively building layers of protection. Articles include focus on equity and pedestrian safety throughout the issue.
Read More >Source: Next City
Reports on crashes resulting in deaths or serious injuries at six roadways i Austin, TX.
Read More >Source: The Atlantic
Describes how the trend toward heavier and taller SUVs and pickup trucks is more likely to cause serious injury or death to pedestrians, bicyclists, and wheelchair users.
Read More >COVID Forced Redesigned Streets, Some Changes to Become Permanent
Source: Fast Company
Shares examples from cities that are permanently keeping street redesigns that were implemented during the early phases of the pandemic.
Read More >Traffic Signal Control Strategies for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Provides a guide to tools, performance measures, and policy information to help agencies design and operate signalized intersections.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board Transit Cooperative Research Program
Provides a broad overview of micromobility research and findings.
Read More >Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2021
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and Toole Design
Summarizes a combination of “Vision Zero for Youth” approaches with a focus on systemic pedestrian safety analysis that reinforces the City’s commitment to youth road safety to gain an understanding of replicable strategies and tools for other cities to use.
Read More >Every Day Counts (EDC) Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian (STEP) Studio
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides comprehensive compilation of resources, design guidance, research, and best practices for improved pedestrian safety.
Read More >Guide for Improving Pedestrian Safety at Uncontrolled Crossing Locations
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Every Day Counts
This guide assists State or local transportation or traffic safety departments that are considering developing a policy or guide to support the installation of countermeasures at uncontrolled pedestrian crossing locations.
Read More >Source: Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Synthesizes a corridor project that improved safety for all road users, especially pedestrians.
Read More >Marketing Campaign and PHBs Improve Safety for Pedestrians in Tampa
Source: Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Features a multi-pronged safety project that has resulted in a crash reduction.
Read More >Costs for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Infrastructure Improvements
Source: UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Costs for pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure often vary greatly from city to city and state to state. This document (and associated database) is intended to provide meaningful estimates of infrastructure costs by collecting up-to-date cost information for pedestrian and bicycle treatments from states and cities across the country.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides a searchable database of crash modification factors (CMFs), which can be used to compute the expected number of crashes after implementing an infrastructure countermeasure.
Read More >Countermeasures That Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasure Guide for State Highway Safety Offices
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Provides guidance for selecting effective, evidence-based countermeasures for traffic safety problem areas including bicycle and pedestrian safety.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes the variety of methods used to estimate and evaluate exposure to risk in pedestrian and bicyclist safety analyses.
Read More >NCHRP Research Report 893: Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis
Source: Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Provides a safety analysis method that can be used to proactively identify sites for potential safety improvements based on specific risk factors for pedestrians. A systemic approach, as opposed to a “hot-spot” approach, enables transportation agencies to identify, prioritize, and select appropriate countermeasures for locations with a high risk of pedestrian-related crashes, even when crash occurrence data are sparse. The guidebook also provides important insights for the improvement of data collection and data management to better support systemic safety analyses.
Read More >Evaluation of Pedestrian-Related Roadway Measures: A Summary of Available Research
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
This document represents an effort to compile all known research on the effect of the pedestrian safety countermeasures contained in PEDSAFE.
Read More >Safer Vulnerable Road Users: Pedestrians, Bicyclists, Motorcyclists, and Older Users
Source: US Department of Transportation
This is one paper in a series intended to develop a National Strategy on Highway Safety.
Read More >Strategies for Reducing Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury at the Corridor Level
Source: California Department of Transportation
This study was conducted to develop methods for identifying sites where there is potential for significant reductions in pedestrian and bicyclist injury.
Read More >Safety Benefits of Raised Medians and Pedestrian Refuge Areas
Source: Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) strongly encourages the use of raised medians (or refuge areas) in curbed sections of multi-lane roadways in urban and suburban areas.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Providing walkways separated from the travel lanes could help to prevent up to 88 percent of these "walking along roadway" crashes.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration
There are regulations and available resources that can specifically help workers perform their jobs safely.
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