Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management (2019) / Chapter Skim
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1 This synthesis aims to document what is known about strategies and countermeasures to address pedestrian safety via traffic-speed management in urban environments. This topic is ripe for exploration, given the thousands of pedestrians who are killed and hundreds of thousands who are injured in traffic collisions annually.
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2 Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management effectiveness with regard to slowing speed, and alternatives to setting speeds, and 2. interviews with practitioners to learn more about their speed-management efforts and results.
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Summary 3 for extensive community outreach before making big changes even when the data clearly indicate a speeding problem and safety issues. In many ways, the interviewees confirmed the dominance of a culture of speed created from and reinforced by prioritizing mobility over safety for decades in the United States.
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