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Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Performance Functions for the Highway Safety Manual

项目名称：	Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Performance Functions for the Highway Safety Manual
摘要：	While overall traffic fatalities are decreasing, the percentages of those fatalities among walking and cycling are increasing. For 2015, NHTSA estimates that compared with 2014, pedestrian fatalities increased by 10% and bicycle fatalities increased by 13%, and the two categories now account for more than 16% of all traffic fatalities. Most crash data sets have insufficient data for pedestrian and bicycle safety analysis at all severity levels. The lack of quality crash data (frequency, severity, injury patterns, contributing factors, crash types) and exposure data (volume, severity, and event data) for different contexts, precludes the development of safety performance functions (SPFs) for pedestrians and bicycles, as well as rigorous safety analysis to inform and use tools such as PEDSAFE and BIKESAFE, the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM), and AASHTO�s Highway Safety Manual and its online tools. The ability to estimate crashes for pedestrians and bicycles would inform national safety improvements and countermeasures selections. Research is needed beyond traditional data collection to provide practitioners with reliable pedestrian and bicycles crash estimates that can be used throughout the planning and project development process, and to measure performance. The objective of this research is to develop pedestrian and bicycle safety performance functions (SPFs) using risk-based or predictive methods, for transportation practitioners at all levels to better inform planning, design, and operations decisions. The results of the research will be used to update the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) and associated tools. The research to inform pedestrian and bicycle performance-based decisions can be independent from each other, but should recognize the intermodal relationships.
状态：	Active
资金：	500000
资助组织：	Federal Highway Administration
项目负责人：	Rogers, William C
执行机构：	MRIGlobal
主要研究人员：	Torbic, Darren
开始时间：	20170327
预计完成日期：	20200228
实际结束时间：	0