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65 This synthesis aimed to document the extent of knowledge and understanding about using traffic-speed management to improve pedestrian safety in the United States. To accomplish this task, the project employed a literature review of countermeasures known to reduce speed effectively and interviews with cities known to be working to improve pedestrian safety via trafficspeed management.
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66 Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management created instant wins that could be used as leverage for future projects. The City of Los Angeles has begun piloting the use of real-time, aggregated speed data from speed feedback signs.
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Conclusions 67 Information about Effectiveness of Countermeasures and Combinations within Various Contexts: Additionally, it is conceivable that certain countermeasures and countermeasure combinations work better for improving pedestrian safety than others or work better in some geographic or land use contexts than others. Information about effectiveness of speed management efforts in various combinations and contexts is important for cities specifically seeking to improve pedestrian safety via managing traffic speed.
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68 Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management that control. This was true for local roads as well as state roads within a community, but the state roads were associated with the additional complication of also not necessarily being under design control of the local jurisdictions -- even when safety problems were present that cities wanted and felt obligated to address.
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