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原文传递 Evaluation of the Safety Benefits of Legacy Safe Routes to School Programs.

题名：	Evaluation of the Safety Benefits of Legacy Safe Routes to School Programs.
作者：	Blomberg-R.D.; Cleven-A.M.; Thomas-F.D.; Peck-R.C.
关键词：	Legacy-safe-routes; School-programs; *Safety-benefits.;Pedestrian-safety; Bicycle-safety; Children-; Enforcement-; Countermeasures-.
摘要：	This study first examined the feasibility of conducting a crash-based assessment of the safety effects of legacy Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. These were SRTS programs operating before the passage of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) that was signed into law on August 10, 2005. A design was developed for collecting detailed classification data on a sample of legacy SRTS programs in order to create a profile of their operations. This classification data also provided a basis for examining pedestrian and bicycle crash data for elementary school children (age 4 to 12) on the school trip. Detailed information including school calendars and bell times was collected on 130 legacy SRTS programs. The State Data System (SDS) crash files maintained by NHTSA were used to conduct three case studies of States containing the largest subsets of these 130 programs. The results for each State showed a significant trend in which the numbers of 4- to 12-year-old pedestrians and bicyclists involved in crashes during the school trip at the SRTS focus sites decreased over time. Similar trends were shown for the same age group and approximate school trip times at the State level in all three studied States.
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