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Pedestrian Safety Engineering and Intelligent Transportation System-Based Countermeasures Program for Reduced Pedestrian Fatalities, Injuries, Conflicts and Other Surrogate Measures: Miami-Dade Site

**Prepared for**
US Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration

Cooperative Agreement
DDTFH61-01-X-00018

**Prepared by**
Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6588
Tel: (352) 392-9537

**In Cooperation With**
Florida Department of Transportation
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Miami-Dade County Public Works Department
Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project was funded by a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) grant under Cooperative Agreement DTFH61-01-X-00018, which is gratefully acknowledged. Additional funding was provided by the Florida DOT and the Miami-Dade County Department of Public Works.

**FHWA Project Guidance was provided by:**
Tamara Redmon, Office of Safety
Dr. Gabriel Rousseau, Office of Safety
Jocelyn Bauer and Kelley Pecheux, SAIC
Leverson Boodlal, KLS Engineering

The project was managed by the University of Florida, Department of Civil and Costal Engineering, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Public Works, with the following project oversight and management staff:

**University of Florida Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering (UF)**
Dr. Ralph Ellis, Overall Principal Investigator
Dr. Ron Van Houten, Technical Principal Investigator

**Miami-Dade Department of Public Works**
Mohamed Hussan, Chief of Traffic Eng Division
David Henderson, Pedestrian Bicycle Coordinator
Vishnu Rajkumar, Signal Design Administrator
Bob Williams, Traffic Signal Engineer

**Private Consultants**
Charles V. Zegeer, P.E.
Richard Blomberg, Dunlap and Associates

**Student Assistants:**
Jose Sanda, Graduate Student
Jin Lee Kim, Graduate Student

Acknowledgement is also made of the contributions of Ed Rice, FHWA, formerly of the FDOT Safety Office, and Rory Santana, FDOT District 6 Office, who were responsible for many of the countermeasures in phase two
      
  CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION
                CHAPTER 2 COUNTERMEASURE IMPLEMENTATION
                CHAPTER 3 DEPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTERMEASURES
                CHAPTER 4 DATA ANALYSIS FOR PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL COUNTERMEASURES
                CHAPTER 5 OUTREACH AND EDUCATION
                CHAPTER 6 PHASE II CONCLUSIONSBook traversal links for Miami-Dade Pedestrian Safety Project Phase II: Final Implementation Report and Executive Summary
      CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION › U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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