TY - JOUR
T1 - Pedestrian Safety and the Built Environment
T2 - A Review of the Risk Factors
AU - Stoker, Philip
AU - Garfinkel-Castro, Andrea
AU - Khayesi, Meleckidzedeck
AU - Odero, Wilson
AU - Mwangi, Martin N.
AU - Peden, Margie
AU - Ewing, Reid
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on a literature review report that was prepared as a background resource for developing a pedestrian safety manual by the World Health Organization in 2013. The World Health Organization gratefully acknowledges the financial support received from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which made possible the production of the pedestrian safety manual. We are also grateful for the contributions of M. Connors and J. Gulden.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built environments that should enhance safety and security for pedestrians, but this ideal is not always the case. This article presents an overview of the evidence on the risks that pedestrians face in the built environment. This article shows that design of the roadway and development of different land uses can either increase or reduce pedestrian road traffic injury. Planners need to design or modify the built environment to minimize risk for pedestrians.
AB - Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built environments that should enhance safety and security for pedestrians, but this ideal is not always the case. This article presents an overview of the evidence on the risks that pedestrians face in the built environment. This article shows that design of the roadway and development of different land uses can either increase or reduce pedestrian road traffic injury. Planners need to design or modify the built environment to minimize risk for pedestrians.
KW - built environment
KW - pedestrian safety
KW - risk factors
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U2 - 10.1177/0885412215595438
DO - 10.1177/0885412215595438
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945317370
VL - 30
SP - 377
EP - 392
JO - Journal of Planning Literature
JF - Journal of Planning Literature
SN - 0885-4122
IS - 4
ER -