Comment:
This manual can be used to describe and define pre-crash actions leading up to crashes between pedestrians/bicyclists and motor vehicles. These codes cover a variety of situations including different crash types, crash locations, initial direction of travel, and other crash-specific scenarios.

Last Updated (Year): 2020

Year Produced: 2020

Abstract:

The development of effective countermeasures to prevent pedestrian and bicyclist crashes is often hindered by State crash files that contain insufficient details about these types of crashes. To remedy this, Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Typing was developed to describe pre-crash actions of involved parties to better define the sequence of events and precipitating actions leading to crashes between motor vehicles and pedestrians or bicyclists. In 2010 NHTSA adopted parts of a stand-alone crash typing application called Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool (PBCAT) into its two records-based data collection systems, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) General Estimates System (GES). In 2016 the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) replaced the legacy NASS-GES. PBCAT was developed by the Federal Highway Administration’s contractor, the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. In FARS and CRSS, pedestrian and bicycle crash typing is accomplished through a software application referred to as the Ped/Bike Wizard, embedded in the electronic data entry system among a larger set of elements collected for non-motorists. The wizard is automatically presented when entering data for a non-motorist with a certain person type from the set of seven non-motorist person types collected in FARS and CRSS. This revision updates that coding manual.

For:Walking, Biking

The E's:Evaluation

Ped Bike Activity:

• Assessment

Ped Bike Topic:

• Schools
• Safety
• Fatalities
• Data
• Crashes
• Crash Types
• Bicycle Operations
• Assessment

Facility Type:Signals, Signage, Sidewalks, Shoulder, Intersection, Driveway Crossing, Crosswalk, Crossings, Bike Lanes

Urban Context:Urban, Rural

Resource Type:

• Information

Link to Content Source:

2019 FARS/CRSS Pedestrian Bicyclist Crash Typing Manual: A Guide for Coders Usi…