Study Data from University of Minnesota Update Knowledge of Risk Management (Evaluating the Safety In Numbers effect for pedestrians at urban…

Study Data from University of Minnesota Update Knowledge of Risk Management (Evaluating the Safety In Numbers effect for pedestrians at urban intersections)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Current study results on Risk Management have been published. According to news reporting out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Assessment of collision risk between pedestrians and automobiles offers a powerful and informative tool in urban planning applications, and can be leveraged to inform proper placement of improvements and treatment projects to improve pedestrian safety. Such assessment can be performed using existing datasets of crashes, pedestrian counts, and automobile traffic flows to identify intersections or corridors characterized by elevated collision risks to pedestrians."

Financial supporters for this research include University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, Roadway Safety Institute.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Minnesota, "The Safety In Numbers phenomenon, which refers to the observable effect that pedestrian safety is positively correlated with increased pedestrian traffic in a given area (i.e. that the individual per-pedestrian risk of a collision decreases with additional pedestrians), is a readily observed phenomenon that has been studied previously, though its directional causality is not yet known. A sample of 488 intersections in Minneapolis were analyzed, and statistically-significant log-linear relationships between pedestrian traffic flows and the per-pedestrian crash risk were found, indicating the Safety In Numbers effect."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Potential planning applications of this analysis framework towards improving pedestrian safety in urban environments are discussed."

For more information on this research see: Evaluating the Safety In Numbers effect for pedestrians at urban intersections. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2017;106():181-190. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting B. Murphy, University of Minnesota, Center Transportat Studies, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States. Additional authors for this research include D.M. Levinson and A. Owen.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.06.004. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North and Central America, Risk Management, University of Minnesota.

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