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Effectiveness of Leading Pedestrian Intervals for Pedestrian Safety in New York City

2024-05-06 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Road traffic crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in large cities. Cities including New York City (NYC) in the United States (US) have implemented a suite of interventions to reduce road traffic crashes. Leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs) are a low-cost physical environmental intervention premised to reduce vehicle-pedestrian crashes by providing pedestrians a head-start over the turning vehicular traffic. Using a spatial ecological panel design, we assessed the impact of LPIs...

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