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1 GUIDANCE TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY AT INTERSECTIONS Guidance to Improve Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety at Intersections: Summary Background Organizations across the United States are seeking to improve transportation safety for all modes. Improving pedestrian and bicyclist safety is increasingly important, as these vulnerable roadway users represent almost 20 percent of traffic fatalities despite making many fewer trips proportionally than motorists (NHTSA 2018; see Figure A)
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2 GUIDANCE TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY AT INTERSECTIONS of bicyclist fatalities. An overarching objective is to provide practitioners with fundamental safety, operations, and design principles to develop intersections that address safety needs and match community expectations.
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3 GUIDANCE TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY AT INTERSECTIONS Chapter 4: Identify Treatment Options for Creating Safer Intersections explains how to use identified crash characteristics, risk factors, and other criteria to select potential countermeasures for bicyclists and pedestrians at intersections. Chapter 5: Refine the Countermeasure Options focuses on considering the needs of bicyclists, pedestrians, and other road users in combination within the land use and transportation context to help refine the countermeasure options.
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