Pedestrian deaths account for approximately twenty per cent of the total fatalities resulting from motor vehicle accidents. Approximately two-thirds of all pedestrian casualties occur while crossing or entering streets. In response to the pedestrian accident problem municipal authorities have devised a variety of pedestrian safety programs, including the adoption of pedestrian protection ordinances and an attempt to increase compliance with these laws by the threat, actual or implied, of legal sanctions. However, no objective research studies have been performed to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of these programs, or to develop practical police counter-measures to prevent pedestrian casualties. The objective of this study is an investigation of pedestrian protection ordinances, their enforcement and their effectiveness in accident reduction in urban areas. The research program described in was structured around three basic tasks--a review of the technical traffic safety literature, including an examination of pedestrian protection ordinances; the collection and analysis of existing statistical data pertaining to the enforcement of pedestrian ordinances and their relationship to the incidence of pedestrian accidents; and the conduct of a field experiment designed to investigate the effect of an increase in the level of enforcement on pedestrian violation behavior in crossing urban intersections. (Author)


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    Titel :

    Pedestrian Regulation Enforcement and the Incidence of Pedestrian Accidents


    Beteiligte:
    S. Singer (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1969


    Format / Umfang :

    91 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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