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Title:

Does Transit-Oriented Development Create a Bicycle and Pedestrian Safe Environment?

Accession Number:

01555480

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been a popular planning tool within urban transportation and land use planning. TOD projects are often touted as being designed to promote bicycle and pedestrian trips and activities. However, bicycle and pedestrian friendly environments cannot be created without the guarantee of bicycle and pedestrian safety. There has been lack of research addressing whether TOD stations provide a safe environment for cyclists and pedestrians. The goal of this research is to determine whether or not the development of these TOD projects across Los Angeles County have had an effect on bike and pedestrian collisions. Applying a longitudinal regression approach, this research analyzes historical trends of bicycle and pedestrian collisions before and after TOD project implementation along LA Metro Rail, comparing bicycle and pedestrian collisions around non-TOD stations. The outputs of this study suggest that TOD implementation contributes to the increase of bicycle and pedestrian collisions, particularly bicycle collisions, rather than reducing bicycle and pedestrian collisions.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-2202

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kim, Dohyung
Rojas, Daniel

Pagination:

13p

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:

References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bicycle safety

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-2202

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:47PM