FHWA: A Focused Approach to Pedestrian Safety

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FHWA A Focused Approach to Pedestrian Safety

• 2006 Regional Traffic Safety Planning Conference
• Partners Embracing Safety
• Houston-Galveston
• Peter Eun, Safety Engineer
• Resource Center SD TST
• 360-753-9551
• peter.eun_at_fhwa.dot.gov

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Instructors and Technical Experts

• FHWA Team
• Gene Amparano - KS
• Aida Berkovitz - CA
• Peter Eun - WA
• Fred Ranck IL
• Pete Rusch - WI
• Keith Sinclair - MD

• Consultants
• Charlie Zegeer NC
• Michael Ronkin OR
• Peter Lagerwey WA
• Michael Moule FL
• John LaPlante IL
• Sue Newberry NV
• Paul Zykofsky - CA

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Benefits for Focus States

• Technical Assistance
• Pedestrian Safety Training
• Answering technical questions
• Providing speakers
• Reviewing plans
• Site reviews
• Whatever else you need us for

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Training

• Designing for Pedestrian Safety
• 2-day course
• Target audience Engineers and planners
• Engineering countermeasures

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9 Modules

1. Introduction
2. Walking along the road crashes
3. Crossing crashes
4. Intersection Geometry
5. Interchanges
6. Signalized intersections
7. Roundabouts
8. Transit
9. Road diets

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Countermeasures
Sidewalks CRF 88
Medians CRF 40
Shoulders CRF 80
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Countermeasures cont.
Two Stage Pedestrian signal
Lead Pedestrian Interval
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Countermeasures cont.
Curb Extensions
Roundabouts
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Course Objectives

• Learn that pedestrians belong in all geometric
  design, operations and safety considerations
• Understand human behavior pedestrians and
  drivers must interact safely
• Understand the role planning and street design
  play in pedestrian safety
• Learn best practices in design and operations for
  pedestrian safety effective solutions

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Developing a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan

• Course Overview
• The goal of this course is to equip you with
  information and decision making skills to develop
  and implement a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
  tailored to your agencies specific problems and
  needs.

www.walkinginfo.org
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DPSAP Course Overview

• The Big Picture
• Stakeholders
• Data
• Collecting
• Analyzing
• Countermeasures
• Engineering
• Education
• Enforcement
• Funding
• Course Exercises

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Developing a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan

• 2-Day Course
• Target Audience
• Engineers
• Educators
• Enforcement
• EMS
• Planners
• Transit
• Health community
• Advocacy groups
• Politicians

Distance Learning version also available
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Why develop a plan?

• How many of you know your agencies strategy to
  reduce the number of pedestrians being killed?

Whats the Plan?
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Benefits to a Plan

• Gets people focused
• Better utilizes resources
• Change in key personal wont halt progress
• Make you go through the planning process which is
  invaluable

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is
deciding how you will go about achieving it and
staying with that plan. Tom Landry
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Recap

• Texas is an opportunity and focused state
• More technical assistance than in the past
• Technical assistance come in many forms
• Just ask
• Training course
• Designing for Pedestrian Safety
• Developing a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan

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• Questions/Comments