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TITLE: Safety Effectiveness of Highway Design Features, Volume VI: Pedestrians and Bicyclists AUTHOR: Charles V. Zegeer, P.E., Janes C. Stutts, William W. Hunter NUMBER: FHWA-RD-93-049 YEAR: 1992 FORMAT: Booklet LENGTH: 34 pages FEE: INTENDED
AUDIENCE:Traffic Engineers, Planners, Safety Activists, Pedestrian Program Coordinators
DESCRIPTION: This report examines the safety effects of improvements to highway design features. The summary of pedestrian research includes the accident characteristics of age, sex, alcohol involvement, times of occurrence, area type, and intersection versus nonintersection. Pedestrian accident types and geometric features relating to safety, including sidewalks and pedestrian paths, grade-separated crossings, refuge islands, street closures and pedestrian malls, neighborhood traffic control measures, curb cuts, and widened and/or paved shoulders are discussed. A list of references is attached
HOW TO GET: Order from:
The National Bicycle and Pedestrian Clearinghouse
1506 21st Street, NW
Suite 210
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 800 760-NBPC, or 202 463-8405
Fax: 202 463-6625CROSS LISTINGS: accident data, engineering