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Title:

Protection of Pedestrians as the Key Action for Implementing Poland’s Vision Zero
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Accession Number:

01551501

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports show that pedestrians account for 10 to 70% of total road crash fatalities. In Poland, pedestrians also represent a significant road safety problem. For many years, pedestrian collisions have accounted for approx. 30% of total road crashes with more than 30% of pedestrians killed. Therefore, pedestrian safety has been one of Poland’s main objectives in its road safety programs implemented over the past 20 years. The paper describes the implementation of Poland’s national road safety program GAMBIT 2005, which adopted the far-reaching Vision Zero. Despite the lack of a dedicated pedestrian safety program, pedestrians are key to the implementation of Vision Zero. Therefore, one of the program’s main objectives was the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and children. Because pedestrian fatalities have not decreased, the implementation of Vision Zero requires a more focused approach to pedestrian safety. To manage pedestrian safety, a risk-based approach is used. The paper describes pedestrian safety management based on methods for estimating measures of strategic societal risk, tactical risk classification, and assessing the effectiveness of operational level actions. The paper also describes the effectiveness of pedestrian safety studies and their evaluation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-0691

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Jamroz, Kazimierz
Kiec, Mariusz
Kustra, Wojciech

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Vision Zero

Geographic Terms:

Poland

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0691

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:19PM