Discretionary Cooperative Agreement in Support of a Large City/ Jurisdiction Demonstration and Evaluation Program for Pedestrian Safety

Résumé

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announces a discretionary cooperative agreement program to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive behavioral and engineering-based countermeasures program for reducing the occurrence of crashes involving pedestrians of all ages. Past Departmental research efforts typically have focused on developing and, when possible, assessing countermeasures for a single target group, such as school-age children. The idea here is to determine the combined effects of various crash prevention approaches to maximize the safety benefits to all pedestrians. The study will use a recently developed methodology for identifying land areas (or zones) within jurisdictions containing concentrations of crashes for specific target groups. Subsequently, existing, refined, and, as needed, newly developed countermeasures will be directed within these zones at pedestrians of all ages, especially those at high risk of crash involvement. To the extent possible, the program also will determine the impact of countermeasures directed at one or more diverse racial or ethnic group known to have a traffic safety problem. This notice solicit