David Zipper

New paper from the US Department of Transportation's Volpe Center examines pedestrian deaths and urban arterial design across rich nations. https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/programs/mrp/docs/FHWAPL2-020_GBP_Ped_Safety%20_Desk_Review_final102822.pdf

Only one country studied saw an increase in ped deaths from 2000-19. Guess which one?

#safety #transportation #cars #pedestrians

Nov 14, 2022 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadhikewithrichardNov 14, 2022
@davidzipper England too, shows an increase.
Show thread(Abhi) Abhijit ChowdharyNov 14, 2022
@harmonicarichard @davidzipper Well, it shows an increase from 2010-2019, but net decrease from 2000-2019. Still, you're right that the regression isn't great.
Show threadJanNov 15, 2022
@harmonicarichard @davidzipper it's an increase compared to 2010, but not compared to 2000
Show threadMark Rogaski  🏳️‍🌈🦓Nov 14, 2022

@davidzipper "Black and Hispanic men are four times more likely to be killed while walking than the general
U.S. population."

That blows my mind.

Show threaddanNov 15, 2022
@mrogaski @davidzipper Found the source that was cited by the report: “Right of Way” by Angie Schmitt. https://islandpress.org/books/right-way
Right of Way

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Show thread(Abhi) Abhijit ChowdharyNov 14, 2022
@davidzipper I think the fatality count graph (Figure 1 on pg. 10) is really indicative of the problem here. They have to use a separate scale for the USA. Of course, I think a better figure would be one normalized by population size. I would make one, if I had the raw data: maybe I can estimate one instead.
Show thread(Abhi) Abhijit ChowdharyNov 14, 2022

@davidzipper I didn't include all of the countries, since the ones clustered at the bottom of Figure 1 were hard to differentiate. Regardless, similar results; but perhaps puts the UK into the perspective of its population.

https://gist.github.com/abhijit-c/1107eef62eacb0f49014a4f192c2e184

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