Pedestrian Safety Roadmap

Making a Commitment This is the first and hardest stage.
You know you are done when you have convinced local decision-makers to take what actions are needed to make your community safer and more walkable.

Activities:

	Create Awareness of Pedestrian Problems
	Determine Level of Interest in Community
	Establish Steering Committee
	Motivate Key Decision-Makers

Getting Organized During this stage you are formalizing the commitment to deal with pedestrian safety. The end of this stage is marked by an announcement to the media that an official Coordinating Committee has been established to address the concerns of pedestrians.

Activities:

	Establish Formal Coordinating Committee
	Recruit Members and Obtain Letters of Commitment
	Draft Community Vision Statement
	Announce Program to Public

Gathering Data This stage focuses on collecting three types of information:

	Safety and Travel Statistics
	Current Program Activity Data
	Citizen Input on what the Vision should be

This stage really never ends, since you should always be monitoring statistics and citizen feedback, but you should move on to Planning when you have prepared a concise statement of the problems facing the community.

Activities:

	Assess Pedestrian Crash Problems
	Survey Pedestrian Facilities
	Review Policies, Ordinances, and Standards & Codes
	Solicit Citizen Input on Safety & Walkability
	Inventory Current Programs
	Identify New Partners

Developing A Plan Using the information you obtain about current conditions, and the vision you have established for the future, the Coordinating Committee needs to determine what the community priorities are, and what actions need to be taken in order to accomplish these goals. It is important to plan carefully but you should not spend too much time and energy on planning. Your focus should always be on making changes, not just planning changes. This stage is ended when you have identified and acquired the resources you will need to implement your action plan.

Activities:

	Establish Program Priorities for Safety & Walkability
	Set Goals and Objectives
	Establish Sub-Committees or Teams
	Provide Training as Needed for Team Members
	Develop Action Plans
	Determine Resource Requirements
	Secure Necessary Resources

Implementing Your Program This is the stage towards which you have been working all along. During this stage your community program will be improving pedestrian facilities, teaching children how to cross the street, enforcing the traffic safety laws, and encouraging the public to get out and walk. At the same time, you should also be keeping the media informed about everything that is happening, so that the community at-large becomes more aware of the importance of walking.

Activities:

	Conduct Program Kick-off Media Event
	Implement Facilities Improvement Program
	Implement Public Information Program
	Implement Traffic Safety Education Program
	Implement Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Program
	Implement Walking Encouragement Program
	Update Policies, Ordinances, and Standards

Evaluation & Feedback While evaluation frequently shows up as the last stage of program development, it must be considered from the very beginning. As you establish your goal and objectives, you must decide on the measures you will use to assess your success. While you are implementing your program, you must seek feedback from the people affected to determine how it is working. And most importantly, you must use the information you obtain to make adjustments to the programs in progress, and in your plans for the next stages.

Activities:

	Determine Performance Measures
	Monitor Pedestrian Crash Data
	Conduct Opinion Polls
	Solicit Citizen Feedback at Public Meetings
	Document what has been done and what is accomplished
	Report Results to Media
	Make Adjustments to Phase I Implementation and Phase II Plans

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Making a Commitment This is the first and hardest stage. You know you are done when you have convinced local decision-makers to take what actions are needed to make your community safer and more walkable.

Activities:

Getting Organized During this stage you are formalizing the commitment to deal with pedestrian safety. The end of this stage is marked by an announcement to the media that an official Coordinating Committee has been established to address the concerns of pedestrians.

Activities:

Gathering Data This stage focuses on collecting three types of information:

Activities:

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Making a Commitment This is the first and hardest stage.
You know you are done when you have convinced local decision-makers to take what actions are needed to make your community safer and more walkable.