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https://doi.org/10.3141/1828-10

http://scholar.google.com...+Gan&publication_year=2003

From 1997 to 2001, pedestrian fatalities represented 25.9% (2,065 fatalities) of all traffic fatalities in Florida. The latest available statewide crash data from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reveals 8,487 pedestrian crashes, resulting in 510 deaths and 7,894 injuries, in 2001. However, a methodology is not currently available to identify pedestrian high-crash locations in Florida as part of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). A study was conducted to provide the framework for the systematic identification of pedestrian high-crash locations on the state highway system as part of the HSIP. The study methodology uses the Poisson distribution to determine abnormally high pedestrian crash frequencies in a year for 1-mi roadway segments. Four-lane and six-lane divided roadways with continuous sidewalks on both sides of the road in Miami-Dade County were included. The crash data, the latest available from the crash database of the Florida Department of Transportation, correspond to the years 1997, 1998, and 1999. A chi-squared goodness-of-fit test was performed to determine how well the data could be modeled by a Poisson process. The goodness-of-fit test was significant at the 2.5% level for the 1999 data, at the 10% level for the 1998 data, and less than 1% for the 1997 data. With a confidence level of at least 90%, a pedestrian crash frequency of three crashes in a 1-mi segment was found to be abnormally high for the four-lane divided facilities. For the six-lane divided facilities, four pedestrian crashes per 1-mi segment were established as the threshold value. From these threshold values, 22 1-mi segments were identified as pedestrian high-crash locations in Miami-Dade County for 1999.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1828, Pedestrians and Bicycles 2003.

English

p. 83-88

2003

Transportation Research Record

0309085616

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Chi square test; Divided highways; Fatalities; Four lane highways; Goodness of fit; High risk locations; Highway safety; Improvements; Injuries; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Poisson distributions

Six lane highways

Florida; Miami (Florida); Miami-Dade County (Florida)

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

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