“Complete Streets” Policies and Eliminating Pedestrian Fatalities

Diffusion of Complete Streets policies Across US communities.

CONTEXT Complete Streets policies guide planning in communities by making the transportation system accommodating to all users including vehicle drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists, as well as those using public transportation. While the number of Complete Streets policies has increased over the past decade, no research has explored the factors attributing to the widespread diffusion of these ...

Towards More Pedestrian-friendly Streets in Cairo

Pedestrian traffic fatalities in Southwestern Croatia.

Pedestrians are often considered the most vulnerable group of road users. The aim of our study was to analyze the forensic aspects of pedestrian traffic fatalities in Rijeka region. We analyzed pedestrian fatalities in a 5-year period (2002-2006), which included 44 fatally injured pedestrians examined at the Rijeka Institute of Forensic Medicine. The male:female ratio was 1:1. The median age wa...

The cell phone effect on pedestrian fatalities

1366-5545/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tre.2008.08.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 973 353 5529; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (P 1 See Loeb et al. (1994) for a detailed review of th This paper examines the impact of cell phone usage on pedestrian fatalities in the United States using econometric models and specification error tests. The model makes u...

Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities.

This study investigates the impact of beer taxes and a variety of alcohol-control policies on motor vehicle fatality rates. Special attention is paid to omitted variables biases resulting from failing to adequately control for grassroots efforts to reduce drunk driving, the enactment of other laws which simultaneously operate to reduce highway fatalities, and the economic conditions existing at...