Week 10 Bicycles Flashcards

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What is the link between walking and bicycling and safety?

A

Many people will not walk or bicycle if they believe it to be unsafe.

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  1. How can we reduce the amount of fuel used?
A

ü Car Pooling
ü Preferential Lanes
ü Bicycle, Walk or Transit
ü Electric Vehicles
ü Ride Sharing Aps

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  1. What is the relationship between speed and pedestrian traffic deaths?
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People are not typically killed if drivers are driving 25 mph. The fatality rate increase exponentially after that.

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

Allowing pedestrians to start crossing before drivers are allowed to turn. Called a leading pedestrian phase.

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

Narrowing the turning radius.

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

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

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  1. How can you reduce the chance of pedestrians violating the DON’T WALK signal at crosswalks?
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By keeping the wait time short.

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  1. How can you reduce the likelihood of a multiple threat crash at a marked crosswalk without a traffic signal?
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  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.
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  1. What are three proven methods to reduce the chance of a pedestrian fatality at an uncontrolled crosswalk on a multilane road?
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  1. The use of a hybrid beacon or a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon
  2. Use of advance stop or yield lines
  3. Installing a refuge island or median
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  1. How can one change the yielding culture at crosswalks
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  1. The use of low cost engineering
  2. A police enforcement program the uses warnings
  3. The use of feedback signs
  4. Establishing motivating operations for yielding right-of-way to pedestrians.
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  1. How does the US compare with Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands on the percentage of trips by bicycle?
A

Each of these countries has far more bicycle trips.

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  1. What does the trend toward obesity look like in the US?
A

Obesity has steadily increased in the US

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  1. What is the trend in pedestrian and bicycle fatal crashes since 2008.
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A steady increasing trend.

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  1. Many pedestrian crashes happen at night. What are good strategies cyclists can take to improve the odds?
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  1. Wear reflective material on parts of your body that move.
  2. Wear 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.
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  1. What were the results of the Blomberg and Van Houten study?
A

Motorists increased their passing distance

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