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                Pg 81-90: USDOT PedSafe Countermeasures Final System Impact Report
  
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      General lessons learned in assessment of different countermeasures for pedestrian safety: (1) Assemble a Diverse Set of Project Partners to Address the Range of Issues That Might Arise
During the Study, (2) Implement Regular Communication and Participation Mechanisms for Project Partners from Project Kick-Off, (3) Use a Variety of Methods/Sources to Understand Problems and to Determine Causes of Crashes at Prominent Pedestrian Crash Locations, (4) Begin the Program by Implementing Low-cost Countermeasures for the Greatest Potential of Widespread Use, (5) Pursue a Variety of Funding Sources for the Pedestrian Safety Program, (6) Do Not Underestimate the  Complexity of Procurement, (7) Budget Ample Time for Deployment and Coordinate with the Appropriate Jurisdictions, (8) Consider How the Timing of Countermeasure Deployment May Impact the Experimental Design And Evaluation, (9)Consider the Unique Aspects of Collecting and Reducing Pedestrian Safety Data
    
          **Last Updated (Year):** 2009
    
          **Year Produced:** 2009
    
          **Abstract**:FHWA awarded three cooperative agreements to Las Vegas, NV;Miami-Dade, FL;and San Francisco, CA to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a combined pedestrian safety engineering and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)-based areawide countermeasures program for reducing pedestrian fatalities, injuries, conflicts, and other surrogate measures of safety.
Each of the field teams conducted two-phase studies, which included self-evaluations of the pedestrian countermeasures that were ultimately selected and deployed. The objectives of the evaluations were to assess the safety and mobility impacts of the pedestrian countermeasures deployed through the collection and analysis of quantitative data. A wide range of data was collected. Data included safety surrogate measures of effectiveness (MOEs) (e.g., driver and pedestrian behavioral data), driver mobility MOEs (e.g., travel times and speeds along corridors), and pedestrian mobility MOEs (e.g., average pedestrian delays).
FHWA also sponsored an independent national evaluation of the countermeasures as well as a cross-cutting study of the teams’ findings. This report presents and discusses the evaluation results for 18 pedestrian safety countermeasures (or combination of countermeasures) and contains cross-cutting analyses, where possible, of those countermeasures that were deployed by more than one of the field teams. Lessons learned by the field teams throughout the course of the project are also synthesized and presented herein.
Overall, the implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive pedestrian safety program proved to be a very challenging undertaking for each of the three field teams involved. There were many lessons learned over the course of the more than 6- year project, ranging from assembling and maintaining communications with a diverse set of project partners, to countermeasure selection and procurement, to the details associated with the successful application of particular countermeasures. The quantitative results are fairly mixed and in some cases inconsistent. Nonetheless, there were many notable and promising findings from the field tests and evaluations that might be applied by other jurisdictions in their efforts to improve the safety of pedestrians.

    
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