Pedestrian Safety Factors in Rural New England Crossings

Several hundred pedestrian injuries and fatalities occur annually in traffic accidents in rural New England. This dataset, from research by John N. Ivan, likely contains environmental and exposure factors like population density, crossing type, traffic control, land use, highway type, vehicle speed, and traffic volumes. The study uses statistical analysis to identify combinations of factors significant for explaining differences in pedestrian injury and fatality experience.

Use Cases

• Modeling pedestrian accident risk based on environmental factors like population density and land use type.
• Analyzing the impact of crossing type and traffic control on safety outcomes.
• Identifying significant factor combinations for pedestrian injury and fatality rates using statistical analysis.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific and understudied problem: pedestrian safety in rural areas.
• Considers multiple environmental and exposure factors such as vehicle speed, volume, and crossing type for analysis.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

John N. Ivan

Collection Method

Statistical analysis of factors at pedestrian crossing sites.

Geography

Rural parts of New England