Estimating lives saved and serious injuries reduced by bicycle helmet use in Colorado, 2006-2014.

Using the methodology developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for motorcyclists, this paper estimates bicycle helmet effectiveness factors (HEFs), defined as the percentage greater chance that a helmeted bicyclist will avoid a fatality or serious injury relative to a non-wearer. We analyse reported motor vehicle-bicycle collisions in Colorado between 2006 and 2014. We conclude that NHTSA's motorcycle HEF methodology did not provide reasonable results given underreporting of low-severity collisions of helmeted bicyclists.

Bus rapid transit as arterial corridor traffic calming: The relationship between transit infrastructure and motor vehicle operating speeds.

Objectives: This article presents an analysis of the traffic-calming effects of bus rapid transit (BRT) by studying changes to motor vehicle speeds before and after implementation of Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) infrastructure in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Methods: While ART construction was completed in spring 2018, the BRT buses did not operate until December 2019; providing a unique opportunity to explore the influence of BRT infrastructure sans BRT buses (i.e.

Database Integration Correlates Street Crossing Design Strategies With Pedestrian Injury.

Introduction: Transportation databases have limited data regarding injury severity of pedestrian versus automobile patients. To identify opportunities to reduce injury severity, transportation and trauma databases were integrated to examine the differences in pedestrian injury severity at street crossings that were signalized crossings (SCs) versus nonsignalized crossings (NSCs). It was hypothesized that trauma database integration would enhance safety analysis and pedestrians struck at NSC would have greater injury severity.

Shedding light on the pedestrian safety crisis: An analysis across the injury severity spectrum by lighting condition.

Objective: Pedestrian fatalities in the United States increased 51% from 2009 to 2019. During that time, pedestrian fatalities occurring at night increased by 63.7%, compared to a 17.

Police-reported pedestrian crash matching and injury severity misclassification by body region in New Mexico, USA.

Between 2009 and 2019, pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. increased 51.

Nighttime pedestrian fatalities: A comprehensive examination of infrastructure, user, vehicle, and situational factors.

Introduction: Pedestrian fatalities in the United States increased 45.5% between 2009 and 2017. More than 85% of those additional pedestrian fatalities occurred at night.

Redefining the child pedestrian safety paradigm: identifying high fatality concentrations in urban areas.

Objectives: Child pedestrians are some of the most vulnerable users of our transportation systems, and they deserve particular attention when we consider traffic safety. The objective of this work is to identify urban locations in which child pedestrians are at particular risk for fatal collisions with vehicles.

Methods: This paper examines 30 years of crash data for six American cities to locate areas with high child pedestrian fatality concentrations.