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This article estimates the pedestrian crash risk at intersections in Albuquerque, NM and then investigates factors associated with different risk levels. The authors define risk as the number of pedestrian crashes per number of crossings at major roadway intersections. Most crash statistics and many prior pedestrian crash studies report the frequency of pedestrian crashes but not crash risk. Crash risk estimates can help identify the most dangerous intersections and roadways which may not always be those with the largest number of crashes. Crash risk estimates can also be used to understand what factors may result in different risk levels. This study finds that pedestrian crash risk varies widely across the intersections in this study and that the most heavily used intersections and those with greatest number of pedestrian crashes are not those with the high crash risks. The authors find that younger age, lower educational achievement, and lower income are associated with higher crash risk and that higher population density is associated with higher crash risk. While the association with age offers an intuitive explanation of increased crash risk, the remaining factors point to possible land-use and social causes of increased crash risk which require additional investigation.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Standing Committee on Pedestrians.

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16-5836

English

14p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Web

Maps; References (9) ; Tables

Age groups; Crash rates; Crash risk forecasting; Demographics; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Social factors

Albuquerque (New Mexico)

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-5836

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 6:34PM