pedestrians and bicycles

Question 1

What is the link between walking and bicycling and safety?

Answer 1

Many people will not walk or bicycle if they believe it is unsafe

Question 2

How can we reduce the amount of fuel used?

Answer 2

1. carpooling
2. preferential lanes
3. bicycle, walk, or transit
4. electric vehicles
5. ride sharing apps

Question 3

What is the relationship between speed and pedestrian traffic deaths?

Answer 3

people are not typically killed if drivers are driving 25mph. the fatality rate increases exponentially after that

Question 4

What is a low cost way to decrease crashes between turning vehicles and pedestrians at intersections with traffic signals?

Answer 4

allowing pedestrians to start crossing before drivers are allowed to turn. called Leading Pedestrian Phase

Question 5

What is a design factor that can reduce the danger from turning vehicles?

Answer 5

narrowing the turning radius

Question 6

Where should signs be installed to prompt or remind drivers to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk when turning at signalized intersections?

Answer 6

Next to the traffic signal because that is where they are looking

Question 7

How can you reduce the chance of pedestrians violating the DON’T WALK signal at crosswalks?

Answer 7

By keeping the wait time short

Question 8

How can you reduce the likelihood of a multiple threat crash at a marked crosswalk without a traffic signal?

Answer 8

1. Putting in advance stop or yield markings
2. Teaching pedestrians to stop before stepping out from behind a vehicle stopped close to the crosswalk
3. Treating passing a crosswalk at speed as a crosswalk as reckless endangerment

Question 9

Whar are the three proven methods to reduce the chance of a pedestrian fatality at an uncontrolled crosswalk on a multilane road?

Answer 9

1. the use of a hybrid beacon or a rectangular rapid flashing beacon
   2.use of advance stop or yield lines
2. installing a refuge island or median

Question 10

How can one change the yielding culture at crosswalks?

Answer 10

1. the use of low cost engineering
2. a police enforcement program that uses warnings
3. the use of feedback signs
4. establishing motivating operations for yielding right-of-way to pedestrians

Question 11

How does the US compare with Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands on the percentage of trips by bicycle?

Answer 11

Each of these countries has more bicycle trips

Question 12

What does the trend toward obesity look like in the US

Answer 12

has steadily increased

Question 13

what is the trend in pedestrians and bicycle fatal crashes since 2008

Answer 13

a steady increasing trend

Question 14

many pedestrian crashes happen at night? what are good strategies cyclists can take to improve their odds?

Answer 14

1. wear reflective material on parts of your body that move
2. weare reflective clothing or a reflective vest
3. use LED flashing lights
4. don’t enter a possible drivers path unless you can see whether a car is present and avoid the right hook and left cross

Question 15

whar were the results of the bloomberg and van houten study

Answer 15

motorists increased their passing diatance