Long-Range Transportation Safety Planning: Institutionalization of Safety Impact Analysis

Though important, safety has unfortunately been a long-missing element in numerous localities' transportation impact analysis or Long-Range Transportation Planning process for a myriad of factors. Nevertheless, it is increasingly recognized that efforts to reduce congestion impacts of new land...

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Published inITE journal Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 21 - 27
Main Authors Capers, William, Chen, Xueming Jimmy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Institute of Transportation Engineers 01.02.2024
Subjects
Big Data
Fatalities
Human error
Impact analysis
Induced traffic
Injuries
Institutionalization
Land development
Land use
Pedestrian safety
Pedestrians
R&D
Research & development
Roads & highways
Safety
Safety factors
Safety research
Traffic accidents & safety
Transportation planning
Transportation safety
United States > US
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Summary:Though important, safety has unfortunately been a long-missing element in numerous localities' transportation impact analysis or Long-Range Transportation Planning process for a myriad of factors. Nevertheless, it is increasingly recognized that efforts to reduce congestion impacts of new land developments could potentially produce unintended and negative outcomes, especially jeopardizing the safety of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users due to faster traffic speeds. Here, Caper and Chen explore the ways to institutionalize land development- induced safety impacts as a transportation planning policy. They contend that safety factors should be incorporated into the Long-Range Transportation Planning process. This establishes a nexus that ensures land development-induced traffic safety impacts are addressed with the change of land use and development density, as well as transportation infrastructure improvement. It is also necessary to upgrade narrowly scoped safety impact analysis to a comprehensive Long-Range Transportation Safety Planning (LRTSP).
ISSN:0162-8178