Designing Streets for Pedestrians Safety

Caltrans District 7 Office
100 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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The Designing Streets for Pedestrian Safety Workshop is a 2- day course that focuses on engineering countermeasures and designs for pedestrian safety.  This course is intended primarily for engineers, planners, and agency officials who have the responsibility of improving streets and highways to make them safer for pedestrian travel. The course includes such topics such as planning factors that affect pedestrian safety, sidewalk and walkway design, pedestrian access to transit, street crossings, popular countermeasures, and intersection design and signalization. A field trip is also provided, where course participants go into the field and review a location in terms of pedestrian safety problems and needs. A workshop is then held where small groups of course attendees develop recommended site solutions based on the field visit. Finally, attendees recommend agency-wide policy changes that are needed to improve pedestrian safety.

Funded by the Federal Highway Administration.