Traffic Safety |
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Key Metrics |
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Crashes and injuries to motorists and other vehicle occupants, pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists |
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Travel speeds and times |
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Traffic volumes |
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Treatment |
Measurements |
Pedestrian Infrastructure |
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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 |
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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 |
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Width |
Minimum Roadway width (curb to curb) (Best: 36-40 feet) (ITE guidelines)
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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?
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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.]
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Do the streets have traffic control devices?
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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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