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An Analysis of Pedestrian Safety Programs with Recommendations for Plan Development

This report, prepared by the Florida Planning and Development Lab, offers an evaluation of the current pedestrian safety planning process for the State of Florida. This project was made possible through a Section 402 Grant from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Safety Office.

This report was completed using a variety of research techniques to evaluate the pedestrian safety planning process for the State of Florida. Specifically, five functional areas were targeted by the research team in regards to this plan evaluation. These five functional areas were: data collection, enforcement, education/encouragement, engineering/planning and implementation.

In order to better understand the practices currently in place in Florida, each researcher undertook a review of the current processes, programs and impediments attached to their specific functional area. This was accomplished in two parts. First, an extensive review of literature was conducted to assist in determining what questions should be asked in regards to this evaluation. Once the correct questions had been determined, the second part involved a series of interviews
conducted to determine what exactly was occurring in Florida practice. Existing Florida conditions were thus documented and held for future comparative use.

Once Florida conditions had been documented, the plan evaluation moved to the second phase. In this second phase, Florida practice would be compared with the practices implemented in six case study states. For this case study research project, subject states were chosen where growth and population patterns converged with a higher rate of improvement in crash fatality statistics than had been seen in Florida. In the case study phase of this project the research method consisted again of a state literature survey and a series of personal interviews, but with a federal literature survey supplementing the data. Existing conditions in these case study states were thenpooled for comparison with each other, and ultimately with Florida.

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