Pedestrian Safety

A coalition of transportation safety and consumer groups is urging Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to push for laws aimed at decreasing the pedestrian death toll on America's roadways, which reached a 30-year high of 6,590 last year.

The idea of a "High Injury Network" isn't new. But a surprising number of cities don't bother to map it.

Cities across America are telling the pedestrian "beg" button to bug off, thanks to thermal imaging technology designed to detect and protect human bodies on our roadways. 

One of South Dakota's most powerful elected officials killed a pedestrian in a bizarre rural car crash on Saturday evening. He claimed he hit a deer.

Cities need to keep their youngest residents safe, healthy, and learning in their own neighborhood thanks to a pandemic that is putting roughly 80 percent of U.S. students on remote learning. Here's how.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on City Observatory and is republished with permission from the author. One of the biggest lies in transportation planning is calling something “multi-modal.”  When somebody tells you a project is “multi-modal,” you can safely bet that its really for cars and trucks with some decorative frills appended for bikes […]

Only 40 percent of pedestrian master plans commit to concrete goals to actually reduce equity disparities.

Federal transportation officials have never done much to center the needs of pedestrians in their policies or funding decisions. But in 2012, things took a turn for the even worse.

A pilot program in Bellevue, Wash. is using anonymized video and big data to stop crashes before they happen.