2/25/2015. The Best of Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place Continuing Education. Today s presenters

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1 The Best of Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 For technical assistance during the webinar, call Choose these audio prompts: 2, 1 February 25, 2015 Continuing Education To document Professional Development Hours (PDH) or Certification Maintenance (CM) credit for the AICP: Log your attendance on the site host s sign in sheet Site hosts: return the completed sign in sheet to APBP after the webinar (fax to or e mail webinars@apbporg) A Certificate of Attendance may be downloaded and printed here: Planners: APBP has applied to the AICP for 15 CM credits for this webinar Today s presenters Vision Zero for Pedestrian Safety: New Thinking from San Francisco Oliver Gajda, Senior Transportation Manager, SFMTA Dana Weissman, Transportation Planner/Engineer, Fehr & Peers 1

2 Today s presenters Oliver Gajda is a Senior Transportation Planner within the Livable Streets Subdivision of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) During his 13 years with the San Francisco Municipal SFMTA, he has directly managed both the City s Bicycle Program and Pedestrian Program Previously, he was the Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Asheville (NC) and the Asheville Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Within San Francisco, all onstreet bicycle and pedestrian improvements are within SFMTA s implementation purview Dana Weissman is a Transportation Planner/Engineer with Fehr & Peers in the San Francisco office Dana has experience on a wide range of multimodal projects throughout the Bay Area, and her particular interest lies in pedestrian and bicycle planning, safety, and research Dana led the technical analysis for SFMTA s WalkFirst efforts, which provided the foundation for San Francisco s Vision Zero campaign Dana recently applied the methodology that she helped develop for WalkFirst to another San Francisco prioritization project, working with the city to identify the highest need locations for streetscape capital improvements The paper that Dana co authored on the WalkFirst approach to prioritizing and defining pedestrian safety capital improvement projects won the 2015 TRB Pedestrian Committee Best Paper Award Through Vision Zero SF we commit to working together to prioritize street safety and eliminate traffic deaths in San Francisco by 2024 : ELIMINATING TRAFFIC DEATHS BY 2024 Presentation Outline San Francisco Vision Zero: Context and History WalkFirst: Prioritizing Pedestrian Safety Projects in Support of Vision Zero 2

3 A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES Annual Pedestrian Fatalities/100,000 Population Miami Jacksonville *San Francisco *Wash DC *New York *Seattle *Chicago Boston *City with a Vision Zero or Toward Zero Deaths Policy IN SAN FRANCISCO 3

4 12% of street miles* Severe/Fatal Injuries: 70% People in Vehicles 76% People on Motorcycles 72% People Walking 74% People Riding Bikes * non-freeway HIGH INJURY NETWORK (SWITRS ) 4

5 wwwvisionzerosforg WALKFIRST WALKFIRST: GUIDING QUESTIONS How can SFMTA develop site specific, data driven recommendations for a geographic area that encompasses thousands of intersections? 5

6 WALKFIRST: GUIDING QUESTIONS How can SFMTA develop site specific, data driven recommendations for a geographic area that encompasses thousands of intersections? How can capital funds be allocated effectively and efficiently to reduce pedestrian injury in a fiscally constrained environment? WALKFIRST: DATA WalkFirst Approach 1 Define the problem: collision profiles 2 Define the solution: effective countermeasures 3 Prioritize the projects: recommended investment strategy WALKFIRST: DATA 6

7 WALKFIRST: PEDESTRIAN HIGH INJURY NETWORK WALKFIRST: COLLISION PROFILES Collision Profile Factor 1 logic Factor 2 logic Factor 3 logic Factor 4 logic Factor 5 census tract with high 1 CHILDREN child victim AND near school OR OR near park child concentration 2 SENIORS senior victim AND near senior center OR census tract with high senior concentration 3 NIGHTTIME VISIBILITY prevailing lighting AND lack of PUC lighting 4a LEFT TURNS AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION collision involving left turn AND signalized intersection 5 RIGHT TURNS AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION collision involving right turn AND signalized intersection 7 PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION pedestrian failure to obey traffic signal AND signalized intersection lack of pedestrian AND countdown signal 8A COMPLEX INTERSECTIONS 5-leg+ OR freeway ramps OR 2 two-way arterials intersecting 9A UNCONTROLLED MARKED CROSSWALK ON ARTERIAL driver failure to yield AND marked crosswalk AND high speed AND no traffic control OR partial traffic control ped failure to cross high vehicle 10a MID-BLOCK WITH CROSSWALK driver failure to yield OR AND mid-block collision AND mid-block xwalk AND in xwalk volumes 11a HIGH SPEED ON BUSY ARTERIAL WITH LOW VEHICLE VOLUME high vehicle speed AND arterial AND low vehicle volumes 11b HIGH SPEED ON BUSY ARTERIAL WITH HIGH VEHICLE VOLUME high vehicle speed AND arterial AND high vehicle volumes 12 HIGH SPEED ON NON-ARTERIAL STREET driver failure to high vehicle speed AND yield AND NON ARTERIAL (4,5) AND high vehicle volumes 13 PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR pedestrian violation high vehicle 17C HIGH RISK FACTORS high violent crime AND volumes AND high vehicle speed WALKFIRST: COLLISION PROFILES 7

8 WALKFIRST: COUNTERMEASURES Countermeasure Wheel WALKFIRST: COUNTERMEASURES Countermeasure MOE Relevant Collision Profiles Pedestrian countdown signal Left turn prohibitions Road diet Pedestrian refuge island 25% Collision Reduction 10% Collision Reduction 30 50% Collision Reduction 20 35% Collision Reduction Complex intersection Pedestrian crossing against signal High pedestrian volume Left turn at signalized intersection Right turn at signalized intersection Complex intersection High pedestrian volume Uncontrolled marked xwalk on arterial High vehicle speed Left turn at signalized intersection Complex intersection Uncontrolled marked xwalk on arterial WALKFIRST: PREFERRED SCENARIO Phase I: relatively cheap, highly effective Phase II: comprehensive, long term 8

9 IN ACTION Painted Safety Zones Before After 6 th and Market wwwvisionzerosforg z Thank you Oliver J Gajda San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency olivergajda@sfmtacom Dana Weissman Fehr & Peers dweissman@fehrandpeerscom 9