01623052

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2661-08

NHTSA designed the Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum to meet current national learning standards so that it could be added to a school’s regular syllabus. The curriculum focuses on pedestrian safety knowledge and skills identified by previous research as effective in reducing pedestrian crashes. The North Carolina Department of Transportation adapted NHTSA’s curriculum to arrive at the pedestrian module of the Let’s Go NC! pedestrian and bicycle safety program. The objectives of this research project were to examine how implementation of the curriculum was achieved by schools, teachers, and caregivers at a test site and to assess the degree to which the teaching of the curriculum translated to increased knowledge of safety and overall safer behaviors among students taught. The results from this study suggest that the Let’s Go NC! pedestrian safety module had a positive impact on students even when varying instructional approaches were used. The program appeared to be especially effective for increasing the self-reported pedestrian knowledge and supervised crossing behaviors of students in third grade and above. The study also showed only small improvements in child pedestrian behaviors in natural settings around the intervention schools. This finding suggests more may need to be done to have a greater impact on the behaviors of unsupervised children. At this point, it is unknown if repeated exposure to the curriculum, as intended in its design, would further increase the pedestrian safety knowledge and behaviors of students.

01650112

17-01383

English

pp 69–75

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441940

Digital/other

Figures (2) ; References (5) ; Tables (5)

Curricula; Pedestrian education; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian safety; Safety education; School children

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

North Carolina

Education and Training; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:27AM

• Beaconing Signalization Substantially Reduces Blind Pedestrians’ Veer on Snow-Covered Pavement
• Comparison of Analytical Methods on Staged Pedestrian Crossings at Crosswalks with a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon
• Comparison of Time-Proximity and Evasive Action Conflict Measures: Case Studies from Five Cities
• Estimating Pedestrian Exposure for Small Urban and Rural Areas
• Factors Affecting Driver Yielding Compliance at Uncontrolled Midblock Crosswalks on Low-Speed Roadways
• Introducing the Pedestrian Accessibility Tool: Walkability Analysis for a Geographic Information System
• Measuring Walking Accessibility in Metropolitan Areas
• Real-World Demonstrations of Novel Pedestrian Crosswalk Lighting
• Self-Reported Behaviors and Habits of Distracted College Pedestrians While Walking
• The Missing Middle: Filling the Gap Between Walkability and Observed Walking Behavior
• Using Embodied Videos of Walking Interviews in Walkability Assessment
• Validation of an Agent-Based Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation Model at a Scramble Phase Signalized Intersection
• Wayfinding Problems for Blind Pedestrians at Noncorner Crosswalks: Novel Solution