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Title:

Improvements to Statewide Collision Reporting to Understand Sidewalk-Related Bicycle Collisions

Accession Number:

01624591

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Identifying collision patterns is critical to designing effective infrastructure, education, and enforcement countermeasures, but details regarding bicycle involved collisions are often limited in statewide reporting systems. Location prior to a collision is an essential element of collision reporting and typing for all modes. Nevertheless, bicyclist location is not adequately detailed in many states’ collision report templates to enable definitive collision typing. This study was motivated by a bicycle-involved collision analysis in Santa Ana, CA, in which sidewalk-related bicycle collisions were especially difficult to identify because of the lack of bicyclist location information. Upon reviewing other states’ collision report templates, it became clear that this deficiency was not unique to California. Sidewalk riding is prevalent in Santa Ana and other communities around the country, and in order to implement effective countermeasures analysts must be able to understand the incidence of sidewalk-related bicycle collisions on an aggregate level. This study conducted a critical review of all state collision report forms in the U.S. to understand how each form was capturing locational information about bicyclist-involved collisions in report fields. The results indicated that many state collision report forms do not provide the necessary level of detail for bicycle involved collision typing, particularly for collisions related to sidewalk riding. Even among the more detailed reports reviewed, there were several opportunities for ambiguity in collision description. This paper defines these ambiguities and provides recommendations for improving statewide collision report forms to better understand sidewalk-related bicycle collisions.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB20 Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-05645

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Berkow, Mathew
van Hengel, Drusilla
Blanc, Bryan
Wilkerson, Cory

Pagination:

22p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Santa Ana (California)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-05645

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:15PM