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Guide for Improving Pedestrian Safety at Uncontrolled Crossing Locations

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Every Day Counts
This guide assists State or local transportation or traffic safety departments that are considering developing a policy or guide to support the installation of countermeasures at uncontrolled pedestrian crossing locations.
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Publicly-Supported Road Diet Reduces Speeds in Alexandria

Source: Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Synthesizes a corridor project that improved safety for all road users, especially pedestrians.
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Marketing Campaign and PHBs Improve Safety for Pedestrians in Tampa

Source: Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Features a multi-pronged safety project that has resulted in a crash reduction.
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Road Diet Case Studies

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes case studies from nine different agencies and features projects that use a variety of pedestrian and bicycle safety countermeasures.
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Costs for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Infrastructure Improvements

Source: UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Costs for pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure often vary greatly from city to city and state to state. This document (and associated database) is intended to provide meaningful estimates of infrastructure costs by collecting up-
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Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides a searchable database of crash modification factors (CMFs), which can be used to compute the expected number of crashes after implementing an infrastructure countermeasure.
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Countermeasures That Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasure Guide for State Highway Safety Offices

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Provides guidance for selecting effective, evidence-based countermeasures for traffic safety problem areas including bicycle and pedestrian safety.
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Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018

Source: World Health Organization
The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million.
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Vision Zero Traffic Fatalities: 2018 End of Year Report

Source: San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco Police Department
Report summarizes characteristics of traffic deaths in San Francisco from 2014-2018.
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Risk Factors for Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes

Source: Oregon Department of Transportation
The primary goal of this research was to develop a tool for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to improve methods to identify and prioritize locations with increased or elevated risk for pedestrian and bicycle crashes.
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