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FHWA Highway Safety Programs

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1. Report No. 2. Government Accession No. 3. Recipient's Catalog No.
4. Title and Subtitle:
Pedestrian Safety and ITS-Based Countermeasures Program for Reducing
Pedestrian Fatalities, Injury Conflicts, and Other Surrogate Measures Draft
Zone/Area-Wide Evaluation Technical Memorandum		 5. Report Date
January 30, 2009
6. Performing Organization Code
7. Authors: K. Pécheux (SAIC);
J. Bauer (SAIC); P. McLeod (Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.)		 8. Performing Organization Report No.
9. Performing Organization Name and Address:
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC),
1710 SAIC Drive,
M/S T1-12-3, McLean, VA 22102

Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.,
18115 US Highway 41 North, Suite 600,
Lutz, FL 33549		 10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)
 
11. Contract or Grant No.
DTFH61-96-C-00098; Task 9842
12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address:
United States Department of Transportation
ITS Joint Program Office, Research
and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA),
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE,		 13. Type of Report and Period Covered
14. Sponsoring Agency Code:
HOIT-1
15. Supplementary Notes
Tamara Redmon and Gabe Rousseau served as COTRs on this project. Morris Oliver served as COTR on the San Francisco Deployment
16. Abstract:
FHWA awarded three cooperative agreements to Las Vegas, NV; Miami-Dade, FL; and San Francisco, CA to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a combined pedestrian safety engineering and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)-based area-wide countermeasures program for reducing pedestrian fatalities, injuries, conflicts, and other surrogate measures of safety. Each of the field teams conducted two-phase studies, which included self-evaluations of the pedestrian countermeasures that were ultimately selected and deployed. The objectives of the evaluations were to assess the safety and mobility impacts of the pedestrian countermeasures deployed through the collection and analysis of quantitative data. A wide range of data was collected. Data included safety surrogate measures of effectiveness (MOEs) (e.g., driver and pedestrian behavioral data), driver mobility MOEs (e.g., travel times and speeds along corridors), and pedestrian mobility MOEs (e.g., average pedestrian delays).

FHWA also sponsored an independent national evaluation of the countermeasures as well as a cross-cutting study of the teams’ findings. This report presents and discusses the evaluation results for 18 pedestrian safety countermeasures (or combination of countermeasures) and contains cross-cutting analyses, where possible, of those countermeasures that were deployed by more than one of the field teams. Lessons learned by the field teams throughout the course of the project are also synthesized and presented herein.

Overall, the implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive pedestrian safety program proved to be a very challenging undertaking for each of the three field teams involved. There were many lessons learned over the course of the more than 6-year project, ranging from assembling and maintaining communications with a diverse set of project partners, to countermeasure selection and procurement, to the details associated with the successful application of particular countermeasures. The quantitative results are fairly mixed and in some cases inconsistent. Nonetheless, there were many notable and promising findings from the field tests and evaluations that might be applied by other jurisdictions in their efforts to improve the safety of pedestrians.
17. Key Words: Pedestrian; Safety; ITS, Countermeasures; Surrogates; Injuries; Crashes; Vehicle; Conflicts; Speed; Delay; Customer; Satisfaction; National Test, Evaluation. 18. Distribution Statement: No restrictions. This document is available to the public from: The National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.
19. Security Classif. (of this report): Unclassified 20. Security Classif. (of this page): Unclassified 21. No of Pages: 117 22. Price: N/A