| Traffic Safety |  | 
| Key Metrics |  | 
| Crashes and injuries to motorists and other vehicle occupants, pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists |  | 
| Travel speeds and times |  | 
| Traffic volumes |  | 
| Treatment | Measurements | 
| Pedestrian Infrastructure |  | 
| Sidewalks (Physical buffer, pedestrian rails) | Do the streets have side walks? If have, Is there have any infrastructures to provide safe walk for pedestrian? | 
| High-visibility pavement | Does the sidewalk have high-visibility pavement markings? | 
| Handicapped Design (detectable warnings, curb ramps) | Dose the sidewalk have handicapped design? | 
| Pedestrian walkway width | Minimum Standards of Sidewalk width (Best 5 and 7 feet) (ITE guidelines) | 
| Pedestrian Crossing |  | 
| Crossing signage (“Look Both Ways” Sign,  “Stop Here” marking, signal devices) | Do the pedestrian crossings have crossing signage to help crossing street? Numbers of signage/street | 
| Pedestrian crossing marking | Do the streets have clear crossing marking for pedestrian to walk, or for drivers to watch out? | 
| Street |  | 
| Width | 
Minimum Roadway width (curb to curb) (Best: 36-40 feet) (ITE guidelines) | 
| Lighting | Illumination level (0.5 foot-candles or more), pole spacing (best: 1 street light / 100-120 feet) (DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES OF ARLINGTON COUNTY) | 
| Traffic calming devices (speed humps and bumps, ramble strips, street closures, traffic diverters, traffic islands, chokers and road narrowing, on-street parking) | 
Do the streets have traffic calming devices?  | 
| 
Traffic control devices [stop signs, yield signs, speed limit signs, turn prohibitions, one-way streets, commercial vehicle prohibitions, special warning signs (watch for children, children at play), portable signs, traffic signals, etc.] | 
Do the streets have traffic control devices? | 
| Intersection | Numbers of intersection/mile street | 
| Intersection sight distance | Corner radii (Best 20 to 25 feet) (Santa Barbara, CA) | 
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Traffic Safety
This is a sheet I made to evaluate traffic safety in a community.
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