The Built Environment and Pedestrian Safety in the Philadelphia Region

This paper investigates relationships between neighborhoods’ urban form, roadway characteristics, traffic collisions, and fatalities in the Philadelphia region. Particular attention is given to neighborhood population density, the most commonly used and discussed measure of urban form and a measure that is directly related to the most commonly used traffic safety statistic, fatalities per 100,000 people. A better understanding of whether denser neighborhoods correlate with higher or lower traffic fatalities could shed light on the likely public health effects of promoting compact cities. Better understanding of the factors that promote neighborhood traffic safety could also help households make more informed decisions about the tradeoffs between different types of neighborhoods.

• Record URL:
  https://ppms.cit.cmu.edu/media/project_files/Built_environment_and_crashes_-_Mobility21_Final_report_gFQpTDY.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://ppms.cit.cmu.edu/projects/detail/75
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/63294
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  Department of City and Regional Planning, 210 S 34th Street
  Philadelphia, PA  United States  19104-6311

  National University Transportation Center for Improving Mobility (Mobility21)

  Carnegie Mellon University
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Guerra, Erick
  • 0000-0002-7769-2581
  • Dong, Xiaoxia (Summer)
  • Kondo, Michelle
  • Artavia, Lucia
  • Benitez, Juan
  • Berman, Jake
  • Gold, Ilan
  • Kearney, Jack
  • Li, Meiqing
  • Lin, Lufeng
  • Shen, Diwen
  • Siulagi, Alma
  • Zhou, Xinyi (Elynor)
  • Zhang, Chi (Zoe)
• Publication Date: 2019-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 35p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Crash data; Crash injuries; Crash rates; Fatalities; Injury severity; Neighborhoods; Pedestrian safety; Population density; Statistical analysis
• Geographic Terms: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01696715
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747111
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 2019 4:37PM