3. WHY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY?
Urban sprawl has often left pedestrians stranded.Wide
roads have been built without sidewalks or frequent
crosswalks, and high-speed traffic makes these roadways
particularly deadly. In many areas, intersections with
crosswalks may be as much as a kilometer apart, leaving
pedestrians with no safe way to cross the street.
2012 data on global safety of pedestrians
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4. DEATHS PER BILLION KILOMETERS
0
38
75
113
150
Air Bus Rail Car Bicycle Motor-bike Walk
54.2
108.9
44.6
3.10.60.40.1
4
5. 0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Driver Cyclist Pedestrian MotorCycle Road Condition Weather Others
14%
1%1%2%3%1%
78%
Who’s Failure lead to an Accident
%age
0
20
40
60
80
Truck Bus Car Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Pedestrian
Traffic Fatalities by Road User
Mumbai Delhi
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6. 5000
pedestrians are killed
84000
pedestrians are injured
Every Year
Pedestrian accidents
make up
11%
Of all motor
vehicle accidents
180000
Pedestrians were killed
in motor vehicle accidents
Between 1975 and 2005
60%
Of accidents occurred in
Place where no crosswalks
88%
of accidents occurred in
normal weather condition
64%
of accidents occurred
at night
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7. Pedestrian crashes typically occur during
the late afternoon and early evening hours
presumably because of the reduced levels of
visibility at a time when many people are on the road.
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13. “equitable space
allocation
for all road users
with a focus on
people rather
than vehicles.”
The National UrbanTransport Policy, India
Photographs are fromTier-1/II cities in India, taken during 2009-2013
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14. BANGALORE
• Rush Hour (on a10m wide road)
• Bike (1 PAX)
• Car (1 PAX)
• Bus (70 PAX)
• 1 KM of this road (No Buses)
• Approx. 300 cars & Bikes
• This reduces to only few
buses if public transit to be
used
• But public transit itself is in poor
condition
Congestion??
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16. MITIGATION
If we can develop and design streets so that they are
wonderful, fulfilling places to be – community-building places,
attractive for all people
Then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the
city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest
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17. MITIGATION PLAN
• Bicycles lanes, Pedestrian walkways & PublicTransit can:
• Reduce the amount traffic and congestion on the road
• Reduce the amount of air pollution
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21. • Pollen, dirt and debris can increase glare and reduce visibility
• Keeping windshield clean, so that pedestrians are more visible
• Defensive driving "scan and search" to include pedestrians
along the road and on the sidewalks
• Older pedestrians walk slower, which makes them more
difficult for the eye to pick up. They also need more time to
cross the street.
MITIGATION PLAN
SAFE DRIVING
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22. For bike and pedestrian accident prevention,
Give the road your full attention.
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