BACKGROUND Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a federally funded transportation program for facilitating physically active commuting to and from school in children through improvements of the built environment, such as sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and safe crossings. Although it is evident that SRTS programs increase walking and bicycling in school-age children, their impact on pedestrian and bicycli...

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...

This study examined the association between the presence of pedestrian and bicycle plans to pedestrian and bicyclist nonfatal and fatal injuries from 1997 to 2009 among 553 North Carolina (NC) municipalities. We considered all municipal plans (n=92; 49 pedestrian; 34 bicycle; and 9 combined plans featuring pedestrian and bicyclist components) published through 2009. Counts of pedestrian and bic...

This research explores the factors contributing to the injury severity of bicyclists in bicycle-motor vehicle accidents using a multinomial logit model. The model predicts the probability of four injury severity outcomes: fatal, incapacitating, non-incapacitating, and possible or no injury. The analysis is based on police-reported accident data between 1997 and 2002 from North Carolina, USA. Th...

Bicyclists face a high risk of being involved in collisions with motor vehicles when cycling in daytime conditions. Thus, bicyclist conspicuity is an important issue to consider when assessing the safety of bicyclists in daytime conditions. Fluorescent clothing has previously been found to provide safety benefits but has never been examined with regard to conspicuity during the day. The present...

BACKGROUND Despite reductions in youth pedestrian and bicyclist deaths over the past two decades, these injuries remain a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality for children and adolescents. There is a need for additional information on non-fatal pediatric pedestrian injuries and the role of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a leading cause of acquired disability. METHODS Using a multi-year...

This research presents a comprehensive analysis of motor vehicle-bicycle crashes using 4 years of reported crash data (2004-2007) in Beijing. The interrelationship of irregular maneuvers, crash patterns and bicyclist injury severity are investigated by controlling for a variety of risk factors related to bicyclist demographics, roadway geometric design, road environment, etc. Results show that ...

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...

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This report addresses an important need for fundamental understanding of bicycleautomobile mixed-traffic. It presents models of (1) gap acceptance behavior and (2) bicyclist behavior at the onset of a yellow traffic signal indication, in addition to analysis of (3) coordinating traffic signals to provide (simultaneous) progression for both bicycles and automobiles. Fundamental insights into mix...