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Nicolae Duduta: Saving Lives with Sustainable Transport
- 1. Saving Lives with Sustainable Transport! ! Nicolae Duduta, Associate Transport Planner, EMBARQ, World Resources Institute! ! December 5, 2013 — Washington, DC! Calz. Independencia, Guadalajara, Mexico - 2009
- 2. Main questions! What are the safety impacts of reducing car traffic and promoting transit, walking, and cycling?! How do we better integrate safety into transportation planning?!
- 3. Agenda! ! Different approaches to traffic safety! ! Motivation for the report! • Example: Rio de Janeiro — The place of safety in transport planning! ! Report findings! • Evidence of the safety impact of sustainable transport! ! Outcomes! • Example: Mexico City — integrating safety into transport planning!
- 4. Approaches to traffic safety! ! Pre-crash | Crash | Post-crash! ! The three E’s: ! • Engineering! • Enforcement! • Education! ! EMBARQ: Safety should be an integral part of all stages of urban transportation planning!
- 5. Approaches to traffic safety! ! Traffic Safety and Sustainable Transport! ! Road Safety Community à WHO, UNRSC! • Decade of Action on Road Safety! • Global Status Report on Road Safety! ! Transport planning! • Planning and engineering professionals! • Local decision makers!
- 6. The place of safety in transport planning ! 300 ft (100m) wide! ! ! ! 50mph (80km) speed limit! ! 1,800ft (600m) blocks ! ! ! !! Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by EMBARQ. !!
- 7. Sidewalk provision is at the discretion of property owners along the street. Streets often lack sidewalks.
- 8. From the time of pressing the button, until finishing the crossing: 8 min, 14 s
- 9. Pedestrians almost always cross on red
- 10. Report Overview! Safety impact:! ! Reductions in traffic (congestion charging)! ! Improvements to cycling and pedestrian infrastructure! ! Investment in high quality mass transport!
- 11. Vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT)! ! There is a strong correlation between VKT and safety! ! Policies that reduce VKT have been shown to also have a positive safety impact!
- 12. Traffic volumes and traffic safety! U.S. states Traffic fatalities per 100,000 people (urban roads) 35 30 25 R² = 0.69 20 15 10 5 10 20 30 Daily VMT per person (urban roads) 40 50 Source: FHWA Highway Sta4s4cs, 2008
- 13. VKT and fatality trends over time! 450 400 350 300 250 Fatalities indicator 200 150 100 VKT indicator 50 0 VKT indicator Fatalities indicator Relationship between VKT and traffic fatalities in Denmark, 1950-2010.
- 14. Congestion Charging! ! London introduced a charge for driving a car inside a specific area within the downtown! ! 15% reduction in injury accidents compared to citywide trends in London ! Source: Transport for London (TfL)!
- 15. Cycling and safety! ! In several cities around the world, increases in cycling were associated with reductions in the cycling injury rate! ! Examples from Copenhagen, New York, Minneapolis!
- 16. Cycling and safety! 9000 400 8000 Bicycle crashes 7000 350 300 250 5000 200 4000 Bicycle commuters 150 3000 100 2000 50 1000 0 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 ! Bicycle commuters and bicycle crashes, Minneapolis! Bicycle crashes Biicycle commuters 6000
- 17. Mass transport and traffic safety! ! In the developed world, mass transport is the safest urban transport mode! ! In the developing world, well designed, high-quality mass transport systems have had significant safety benefits!
- 18. Mass transport! ! Calz. Independencia, Guadalajara, Mexico - 2007!
- 19. Mass transport! Reduction in the number of lanes Shorter Central pedestrian median crossings ! Calz. Independencia, Guadalajara, Mexico - 2009! Existing buses and minibuses replaced with a single operating agency
- 20. Conclusions! Evidence of safety impact from: ! ! Reductions in car traffic (e.g. congestion charging)! ! Improvements in cycling infrastructure and increases in cycling volumes! ! High quality mass transport systems (including evidence from the developing world)! ! Reductions in exposure, improvements in infrastructure!
- 21. Counterflow – Mexico City! ! Eje 3 Oriente, Mexico City, July 2011!
- 22. Counterflow – Mexico City! ! Road safety audits: three between 2010-2013 recommended removal of counterflow! ! Safety impact of counterflow: +75% all crashes, +125% injury crashes! ! Design recommendations, workshops with city and transit agency!
- 23. Counterflow – Mexico City! ! Eje 3 Oriente, Mexico City, July 2011 - October 2013!
- 24. Thank you! ! Nicolae Duduta, Associate Transport Planner, EMBARQ, World Resources Institute! ! nduduta@wri.org! This presentation will be made available on Slideshare at slideshare.net/EMBARQNetwork! Connect with EMBARQ! Twitter: @EMBARQNetwork! Facebook: EMBARQNetwork!
