"Road safety for vulnerable users must... be understood not merely as a function of street geometry or user behavior, but as a spatial outcome of transportation and land development configurations."
Ken McLeod
New research by Eric Dumbaugh and (my former post-doc) Jonathan Stiles shows that the locations of groceries, pharmacies, gas stations, and fast-food outlets along busy arterial streets are strongly associated with the death and injury of vulnerable road users.
Pedestrian and bicyclist deaths now account for nearly one in five traffic fatalities in the United States. They continue to rise even as peer nations have reduced deaths dramatically. We examined ...
