Mid-Block Pedestrian Crossing Exposure: Count Protocol and Database
Nearly 80% of US pedestrian fatalities occur at mid-block locations, away from intersections. Despite the problem of the most serious pedestrian crashes occurring at mid-block locations, very few transportation researchers and agencies have collected pedestrian crossing counts at these locations. Therefore, the traffic safety profession has almost no understanding of pedestrian exposure at mid-block crossing locations. This prevents researchers and agencies from calculating pedestrian crash rates and therefore understanding which roadway and adjacent land use characteristics may produce the greatest risk at these crucial locations. This pilot project will be conducted in the City of Milwaukee, WI and will explore the following research questions: 1) What are the most effective methods to collect mid-block crossing counts? 2) What roadway, adjacent land use, and other contextual characteristics can be collected efficiently and included in a database of mid-block crossing counts? 3) What characteristics are associated with pedestrian mid-block crossing crash rates? Answering these questions will also help provide the foundation to eventually explore which roadway, adjacent land use, and other contextual characteristics are associated with mid-block pedestrian crossing volumes. This can lead to mid-block pedestrian crossing volume models and predictive models (safety performance functions) for mid-block pedestrian crossing crashes.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $93649
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Contract Numbers:
69A3552348336
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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
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Performing Organizations:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of Urban Planning/Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation
Milwaukee, WI United States -
Principal Investigators:
Schneider, Robert
- Start Date: 20240601
- Expected Completion Date: 20250531
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash characteristics; Data collection; Land use; Midblock crossings; Pedestrian counts; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01923824
- 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