Pedestrian and bicyclist safety in New York City

Spatial analysis of the association of alcohol outlets and alcohol-related pedestrian/bicyclist injuries in New York City

BACKGROUND Pedestrian and bicyclist injury is an important public health issue. The retail environment, particularly the presence of alcohol outlets, may contribute the the risk of pedestrian or bicyclist injury, but this association is poorly understood. METHODS This study quantifies the spatial risk of alcohol-related pedestrian injury in New York City at the census tract level over a recen...

A multiagency effort to reduce bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries in New York City.

Dear Fellow New Yorker: Bicycling is good for New York City! It offers many benefits to many New Yorkers: • Recreation and sport • Regular physical activity to improve fitness and health • An easy and relatively inexpensive way to get to work or school • A mode of transportation that reduces road congestion and cuts down on pollution • For messengers and delivery people, a means of employment i...

Bicyclist safety performance functions for a U.S. city.

Efforts have intensified to apply a more evidence-based approach to traffic safety. One such effort is the Highway Safety Manual, which provides typical safety performance functions (SPFs) for common road types. SPFs model the mathematical relationship between frequency of crashes and the most significant causal factors. Unfortunately, the manual provides no SPFs for bicyclists, despite disprop...

Diabetes in New York City.

Alternative Ordered Response Frameworks for Examining Pedestrian Injury Severity in New York City

This paper focuses on identifying the appropriate ordered response structure for modeling pedestrian injury severity. The alternative ordered response approaches considered for the empirical analysis include: ordered logit model (OL), generalized ordered logit model (GOL) and latent segmentation based ordered logit model (LSOL). The GOL and LSOL models enhance the traditional OL model in differ...