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18 C H A P T E R 3 This chapter provides an overview of key pedestrian safety issues associated with public transit rail services. Pedestrian Characteristics In order to effectively plan and design pedestrian crossings for public rail transit services, an understanding of the characteristics of pedestrians can be beneficial.
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Pedestrian Safety 19 • Pedestrians may be inattentive. Pedestrian inattentiveness to the surrounding environment has increased with the rapid emergence of mobile device use.
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20 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services Pedestrian Group Characteristics and Behaviors Child Pedestrians May have difficulty choosing where and deciding when it is safe to cross the street. May have difficulty seeing (and being seen by)
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Pedestrian Safety 21 • Lack of appropriate physical separation between motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, and the LRV. • Risky behavior by motorists and pedestrians.
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22 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services designations into light rail and streetcar. Table 7 contains the total combined light-rail and streetcar fatalities and injuries for 2008 to 2011 and the separate light-rail and streetcar fatalities and injuries for 2012.
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Pedestrian Safety 23 – The person attempted to pass over, under, or between cars or locomotives occupying the crossing. • Other Categories.
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24 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services Safety Audit TCRP Report 137 presents a light-rail risk analysis methodology and defines a safety audit as using "a multi-disciplinary approach to identify potential crash risks through a detailed examination of all relevant design and environmental factors" (4)
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Pedestrian Safety 25 4. Development of recommendations 5.
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26 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services • Number and types of rail vehicles daily during peak periods. • Multiple trains approaching a crossing simultaneously.
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