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... 1 Summary Introduction In 2017, on a typical day in the U.S., approximately 38.9 million trips were undertaken primarily by walking, representing 10.5% of trips made by all modes, making walking the second-most prevalent transportation mode after driving or riding in a private motor vehicle (National Household Travel Survey)
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... 2 NCHRP Project 17-87's objective was to develop guidance for urban, suburban, and rural jurisdictions to: (1) identify techniques to efficiently and accurately estimate pedestrian volume and exposure; (2)
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... 3 Pedestrian Satisfaction Crossing Roadways Treated with Safety Countermeasures Background A variety of pedestrian safety countermeasures, such as curb extensions, median refuge islands, rectangular rapid-flashing beacons (RRFBs) , and leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs)
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... 4 Findings at Uncontrolled Crossings The following statistically significant factors were found to affect pedestrian satisfaction at uncontrolled crossings:  Average annual daily traffic (AADT) of the street being crossed;  Whether or not the pedestrian was delayed making the crossing (a function of the crossing length, traffic volume at the time of crossing, and motorist yielding behavior)
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... 5 Table S-1. Effect of Pedestrian Crossing Treatments on Motorist Yielding Rates.
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... 6  The pedestrian delay method for signalized crosswalks only calculates average delay for pedestrians who arrive randomly at a street corner and then make their crossing in one stage (i.e., not waiting in the median, if one exists)
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... 7 Pedestrian Network QOS Background The research team investigated a method for evaluating the QOS for a pedestrian network covering a large area, ranging in size from a neighborhood or campus to an entire city. The FHWA's Guidebook on Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity (Twaddell et al.
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... 8 Figure S-1. Conceptual network connectivity map.

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