National Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Data Clearinghouse Phase I: Inventory & Framework

Safety researchers, especially those studying bicycle and pedestrian safety, often struggle to obtain sufficiently high-quality data to conduct robust safety studies. The goal of the project is to create an online centralized data clearinghouse for bicycle and pedestrian safety-related data as a national resource for safety researchers to expedite research on this topic. CSCRS Project R14, the first phase of this work, produced a pilot online pedestrian and bicycle safety data resource clearinghouse available at pedbikedata.org. It allows researchers to search from over 4,000 pedestrian and bicycle safety-related data resources by geographic location (national, state, region, county or city), data type (collision, counts, infrastructure, or other), data format, and availability. The search results provide information on the time period for which the data are available as well as the owner of the data and a link to the online dataset itself. The final report details a system for rating the datasets and shows that there is a great need for higher quality data of all types. This project is continuing with a second phase to improve the clearinghouse and user interface.

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• Summary URL:
  https://www.roadsafety.unc.edu/research/projects/2018r14/
• Summary URL:
  https://www.roadsafety.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/R14_SafetyDataClearinghouse.pdf
• Summary URL:
  https://www.roadsafety.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CSCRS_SlideDeckR14.pdf
• Dataset URL:
  http://pedbikedata.org/
• Record URL:
  https://www.roadsafety.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CSCRS_Report_R14_FINAL.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56814
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Supporting datasets available at: http://pedbikedata.org/
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599

  University of California, Berkeley

  Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
  2614 Dwight Way, #7374
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-7374

  Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27514

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Nordback, Krista
  • 0000-0001-7967-1998
  • Kumfer, Wesley
  • 0000-0002-6705-5298
  • LaJeunesse, Seth
  • 0000-0003-4908-3823
  • Thomas, Libby
  • 0000-0002-7557-7272
  • Heuser, Katie
  • 0000-0002-5757-7623
  • Griswold, Julia
• Publication Date: 2019-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 52p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycling; Cyclists; Data collection; Databases; Pedestrian safety; Traffic safety; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01759937
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CSCRS-R14
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 14 2020 9:14AM