PEDESTRIAN REGULATION ENFORCEMENT AND THE INCIDENCE OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS

PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION ORDINANCES, THEIR ENFORCEMENT, AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENFORCEMENT IN REDUCING PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS WERE INVESTIGATED. A LITERATURE SEARCH REVEALED A LARGE BODY OF POPULAR MATERIAL BUT A LACK OF SCIENTIFICALLY VALID INFORMATION. ANALYSIS OF EXISTING DATA SHOWED NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEGREE OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY AND PEDESTRIAN CASUALTIES IN URBAN AREAS. THE DATA BASE HOWEVER, WAS CONSIDERED INADEQUATE TO MAKE A VALID STUDY. THE FIELD EXPERIMENT, CONDUCTED IN FORT WORTH, SACRAMENTO, AND SEATTLE, WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PHASES: BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF A TWO- WEEK PERIOD OF INCREASED ENFORCEMENT. NO CONCLUSIVE RESULTS WERE PRODUCED. IT WAS OBSERVED THAT IN MOST STATES, PEDESTRIAN-RELATED REGULATIONS CONFORMED SUBSTANTIALLY WITH THE UNIFORM VEHICLE CODE. THE REPORT RECOMMENDS DEVELOPMENT OF BETTER QUANTITATIVE MEASURES THAN ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS TO INDICATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEDESTRIAN REGULATION ENFORCEMENT, AND CONSISTENT NATION-WIDE COLLECTION OF DATA ON THIS SUBJECT. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report No D/A-SSD-69-726, 91 PP, 71 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Dunlap & Associates Inc

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• Authors:
  • Singer, S
• Publication Date: 1969-8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Field studies; Law enforcement; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Statistical analysis; Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Pedestrian protection
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223110
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 20 1970 12:00AM