Unpublished Paper
A Model for Better Crosswalk Safety
TREC Project Briefs
Sponsor
This research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, or NITC, a program of TREC at Portland State University.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Subjects
- Pedestrians -- Attitudes,
- Signalized intersections -- Research,
- Traffic flow -- Research,
- Automobile drivers -- Behavior -- Analysis,
- Pedestrians -- Safety measures -- Technological innovations
Disciplines
Abstract
NITC researchers from Portland State University developed models to find what factors affected vehicles’ compliance with pedestrian safety laws.
The results suggest that treatments discouraging accelerating toward a crosswalk could help increase pedestrian safety.
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26913
Citation Information
Figliozzi, Miguel. A model for Better Crosswalk Safety. Project Brief. Project Number 2016-760. Portland, OR: Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), 2017.
This is a summary of TREC research project NITC-RR-760, which can be found at http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/760.
Final Report NITC-RR-760 can be found at http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19535.