Designing Streets for Pedestrians Safety

Orange County (2-Day Course)

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Dates: July 9-10, 2007
Location:

City of Brea Civic and Cultural Center
Room: Conference Center
1 Civic Center Circle
Brea, CA 92821
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Special Note:
The training location for the Orange County Class has changed from Irvine to Brea.
Training Time: July 9, 2007; 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
July 10, 2007; 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Description:

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.


Agenda
The class starts promptly at 8:00 and ends at 4:30. Attendees should arrive by 7:45.

Day 1 - July 9, 2007

  I.
Introductions
•   Attendees explain their background and what they hope to learn.
  II.
Planning factors that impact pedestrian safety:
•   Land use; street connectivity; access management; site design; LOS;
  III.
Sidewalk design elements that impact pedestrian safety:
•   Basic sidewalk design: width, clearances, accessibility, the need for buffers
•   Driveways & alleys: maintaining sidewalk continuity
  IV.
Street Crossings:
•   Principals of human behavior; the need to provide safe, frequent and convenient crossings; midblock vs. intersection crossing safety
•   Crosswalks: justification, where they're applicable; crosswalk markings
•   Tools for improving the effectiveness of crosswalks: Illumination; flashing lights and beacons; signing; advance stop or yield lines - reduce multiple threat crashes
•   Medians & islands: break up long crossings into 2 steps
•   Pedestrian signals: meeting warrants, providing a hot response; innovative techniques
•   Grade-separation: why it fails, where it's applicable, how to make it succeed
  V.
Intersection Geometry:
•   Geometric concerns: intersections size; choosing the right size radius; complex and skewed intersections
•   Curb extensions: reducing crossing distance
•   Crosswalk placement: how to place crosswalks where they’ll be used
•   Islands: right trun slip lane design
•   Interchanges: accommodating pedestrians at exit and entrance ramps
  VI.
Adjourn
 

Day 2 - July 10, 2007

  I.
Intersection Signalization:
•   The purpose of signals; their effect on pedestrian safety; meeting warrants
•   Ped signal placement
•   Countdown pedestrian signals
•   Push-button placement
•   Signal timing techniques: pedestrian signal timing; restricting turn movements; Leading Pedestrian Interval (LPI); all ped scramble; ITS applications
  II.
Roundabouts:
•   Proper design, essential pedestrian safety considerations
  III.
Transit:
•   Bus stop design; location of bus stops & pedestrian crossing safety
  IV.
Road Diets:
•   Reducing street width enhances pedestrian safety without compromising capacity
  V. Prepare for Field Trip
  VI. Field Trip
  VII. Lunch (on your own)
  VIII. Exercise: Problem solving / brainstorming policy changes
  IX. Exercise: Solutions and policy reports
  X. Exercise: Selecting high priority policy changes
  XI. Wrap-up; next xteps
  XII. Adjourn