Fire Safety and Safe Streets: Understanding Conflicts between Safe Streets Improvements and Emergency Response

In this project the research team proposes to address the following questions related to conflicts between fire departments and safe streets efforts: When and why do fire safety and street safety goals come into conflict? What institutional arrangements, design processes, and other practices are emerging to reconcile these conflicts to improve overall community safety? How might best practices for avoiding conflict and finding synergies be replicated from city to city? The project includes four main components: (1) assembling a national Community Advisory Committee of 8-12 members from across a range of relevant areas of expertise; (2) a review of existing scholarly and gray literatures on conflicts between bike and pedestrian safety and emergency response; (3) construction of a national database of conflicts between street safety upgrades and emergency response demands from 2010 to 2024; (4) development of 3 to 5 in-depth case studies of street safety / emergency response conflicts drawing on stakeholder interviews, local media, project documentation, and public meeting records. Deliverables include: the conflict database, a research paper, and a public report.

• Record URL:
  https://www.pedbikesafety.org/projects/24ucb02

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $86736
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552348336

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720
• Principal Investigators:

  Lamb, Zachary

• Start Date: 20240601
• Expected Completion Date: 20250531
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cyclists; Fire departments; Hazards and emergency operations; Highway design; Highway safety; Pedestrian safety; Traffic conflicts
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01923811
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552348336
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 8 2024 2:54PM