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This paper begins by examining descriptive statistics on bus boarding and alighting volumes at bus stop locations and pedestrian accidents in Honolulu. Each of the bus stops and pedestrian accidents are geocoded to the same coordinate system that matches with Honolulu’s city street map. Then a 100 meter buffer zone is created around each bus stop, which is called as focus bus stop, to aggregate the location of pedestrian accidents and other stops. Using Euclidean distances between focus stops and pedestrian accident as well as other stop locations, a measure of the spatial concentration of both accidents and volumes over distance is derived. Rank ordered and Pearson’s correlation coefficients as well as other statistical techniques are used to establish the relationships between bus stop locations, pedestrian activity, and accidents. The research also provides some insight into pedestrian volumes and underlying exposure based on activity near bus stops. Another way of thinking about the geocoded bus volumes is that they provide valuable insight into pedestrian activity and movements. Key locations in which to focus on pedestrian safety are a function of both the activity generators (represented by bus stop volumes) and the actual number of pedestrian collisions. These measures could be used to identify hazardous zones important to motor vehicle drivers, pedestrians, and bus operations.

01147878

10-3525

English

16p

2010

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

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Boarding and alighting; Bus stops; Crash locations; Crash rates; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrians; Spatial analysis; Traffic volume; Transit buses

Honolulu (Hawaii)

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3525

BTRIS, TRIS, TRB

Jan 25 2010 11:47AM