Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures

Road transport is failing pedestrians more than other road users. For pedestrians, roads are not safe or improving: Globally pedestrian deaths have increased at nearly twice the rate of other road crash deaths (12.9% increase from 2013 to 2016, vs. a 6.6% increase for other road users). Pedestrians...

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Main Author:	Raymond Franklin Soames Job
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:	Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Subjects:	pedestrian speed speed-crash risk relationship safe system road safety management sustainability
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frsc.2020.00030/full

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spelling	doaj-a43cb9c4547e4bbbb1c1d431ca7c12132021-04-02T11:31:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Cities2624-96342020-06-01210.3389/frsc.2020.00030553681Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the FailuresRaymond Franklin Soames JobRoad transport is failing pedestrians more than other road users. For pedestrians, roads are not safe or improving: Globally pedestrian deaths have increased at nearly twice the rate of other road crash deaths (12.9% increase from 2013 to 2016, vs. a 6.6% increase for other road users). Pedestrians commonly lack safe crossings, safe speeds, and in many locations, footpaths. This paper briefly identifies successes and failures for pedestrian safety, reviews weaknesses, and limitations to actions for pedestrian safety, and identifies barriers to effective action. Barriers include current culture on road usage, victim blaming, under-estimation of the pedestrian crash death problem in particular, and other crash data issues. Advocacy, policies, and actions are recommended to overcome these barriers and to improve pedestrian safety.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frsc.2020.00030/fullpedestrianspeedspeed-crash risk relationshipsafe systemroad safety managementsustainability
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title	Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures
title_short	Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures
title_full	Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures
title_fullStr	Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures
title_full_unstemmed	Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures
title_sort	policies and interventions to provide safety for pedestrians and overcome the systematic biases underlying the failures
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
series	Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
issn	2624-9634
publishDate	2020-06-01
description	Road transport is failing pedestrians more than other road users. For pedestrians, roads are not safe or improving: Globally pedestrian deaths have increased at nearly twice the rate of other road crash deaths (12.9% increase from 2013 to 2016, vs. a 6.6% increase for other road users). Pedestrians commonly lack safe crossings, safe speeds, and in many locations, footpaths. This paper briefly identifies successes and failures for pedestrian safety, reviews weaknesses, and limitations to actions for pedestrian safety, and identifies barriers to effective action. Barriers include current culture on road usage, victim blaming, under-estimation of the pedestrian crash death problem in particular, and other crash data issues. Advocacy, policies, and actions are recommended to overcome these barriers and to improve pedestrian safety.
topic	pedestrian speed speed-crash risk relationship safe system road safety management sustainability
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Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures

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