Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis

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September 20th, 2018

This Guidebook was developed to provide a framework for transportation agencies to take the steps needed to advance toward implementing a risk‐based, systemic pedestrian safety management process to reduce pedestrian crashes. It aims to:

Provide rationale and motivation for taking a systemic approach;
Clarify key terms and definitions;
Describe the data needs for a systemic process, and offer guidance on how agencies can acquire
necessary data;
Offer guidance for conducting a systemic analysis, as well as provide alternative methods and
troubleshooting; and
Highlight real‐world examples that can provide motivation and models for systemic approaches.