Traffic Safety
Traffic Safety Solution: Design, Not Enforcement
Alon Levy argues that the best path to traffic safety is through design rather than traffic law enforcement.
Feds Finally Onboard With Bike Boxes
The federal government officially downgraded the safety risk of installing bike boxes at intersections.
U.S. DOT Adopts Vision Zero
"With this campaign, we’re making clear that zero is the only acceptable number of deaths on our roads."
Rethinking Traffic Safety
The United States has, by far, the highest traffic fatality rate among peer countries. Don’t blame drivers; planners need to rethink transportation safety.
Commercial Vehicles Are No Match for Bike Safety
All six bicyclists killed in Chicago this year had something in common: commercial vehicles. Still missing from the discussion: what to do about it.
New York Ponders How to Stop Cars from Parking in Bike Lanes
You can write all the tickets in the world but you can't stop drivers from parking in bike lanes.
Indianapolis: Where the Streets Have No Lights
The IndyStar shines a light on the city of Indianapolis' neglect of its infrastructure.
Sweeping Speed Limit Reductions Proposed for Seattle's Streets
Two Seattle councilmembers are proposing a large, necessary step toward slowing drivers enough to eliminate traffic deaths in the city.
The App That Puts Street Design Powers Into the Hands of Children
For the first time ever, Norway is crowdsourcing public safety information from kids—made possible through the powers of smart phones and gamification.
Planetizen Week in Review: September 10, 2016
The fastest two minutes in planning news.
High Quality Public Transportation Can Provide Huge Traffic Safety Benefits
Public transportation increases safety. Transit travel has a tenth of the traffic fatality rate as automobile travel, and transit-oriented communities have about a fifth the per capita traffic casualty rate as in automobile-oriented communities.
A 'Call to Action' to Find Reasons for Increase in Traffic Fatalities
The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to hear from the public to help explain the 35,092 traffic deaths last year, an increase of 2,348 people from 2014. It has issued a 'call to action' to help interpret the data.
Questioning the de Blasio Administration's Commitment to Vision Zero
Results showing progress in the fight to end traffic fatalities have disappeared, just like some of the safety projects installed under the banner of Vision Zero.
How U.S Road Safety Compares to Other Countries
That is, not very well.
Traffic Deaths Take a Big Jump in 2016
A 9 percent increase in fatalities on the nation's highways compared to the same period in 2015 does not appear to be a result of increased driving, which jumped 3.3 percent during that period, but rather an increase in the rate of fatal crashes.
Florida DOT Taking a New, Data-Driven Approach to Pedestrian Safety
The Florida Department of Transportation is trying to change the state's status as the most dangerous in the nation for pedestrians, with 5,100 people killed while walking between 2003 and 2010.
Traffic Safety Advocates Taking Action Into Their Own Hands
The San Francisco Transformation Agency is tired of watching cyclists and pedestrians die while the city promises more Vision Zero improvements.
Put the Morals of Self-Driving Cars to the Test
Meet the Moral Machine, which echoes a standard many people hope self-driving cars can achieve.
Portland Introduces 'Crossbikes'
It's like a crosswalk, but for bikes.
Safety Got Worse Before it Got Better on Cincinnati's Central Parkway Bike Lane
The controversy over a protected bike lane along Central Parkway in Cincinnati continues. The latest grist for the mill comes from a report finding that crashes increased in the first complete year of the lane's operation.
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