Pedestrian Fatality and Severe Injury Accidents in New York City

Abstract: This project will identify policy and modeling issues in severe pedestrian injuries and fatalities in NYC. The relationship between pedestrian crashes and other independent variables such as roadway-geometry (transportation environment variables) and socio-demographic variables of the pedestrians/drivers. This will be performed using the comprehensive database compiled by the research team. Different severity models will be developed for pedestrian crashes which are classified into fatal and injury crashes. The analysis will identify controllable factors based on intersection and corridor types that mainly contribute to the occurrence of pedestrian crashes in New York City. The pedestrian crash risk analysis will include two distinct components: 1) crash frequency analysis; and, 2) severity or crash consequence analysis