Week 10 Bicycles

Question 1

What is the link between walking and bicycling and safety?

Answer 1

Many people will not walk or bicycle if they believe it to be unsafe.

Question 2

2. How can we reduce the amount of fuel used?

Answer 2

ü Car Pooling
ü Preferential Lanes
ü Bicycle, Walk or Transit
ü Electric Vehicles
ü Ride Sharing Aps

Question 3

4. What is the relationship between speed and pedestrian traffic deaths?

Answer 3

People are not typically killed if drivers are driving 25 mph. The fatality rate increase exponentially after that.

Question 4

5. What is a low cost way to decrease crashes between turning vehicles and pedestrians at intersections with traffic signals

Answer 4

Allowing pedestrians to start crossing before drivers are allowed to turn. Called a leading pedestrian phase.

Question 5

6. What is a design factor that can reduce the danger from turning vehicles?

Answer 5

Narrowing the turning radius.

Question 6

7. Where should signs be installed to prompt or remind drivers to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk when turning at signalized intersections.

Answer 6

Next to the traffic signal because that is where they are looking

Question 7

8. How can you reduce the chance of pedestrians violating the DON’T WALK signal at crosswalks?

Answer 7

By keeping the wait time short.

Question 8

9. How can you reduce the likelihood of a multiple threat crash at a marked crosswalk without a traffic signal?

Answer 8

1. Putting in advance stop or yield markings,
2. Teaching pedestrians to stop before stepping out from behind a vehicle stopped close to the crosswalk
3. Treating passing a crosswalk at speed as a crosswalk as reckless endangerment.

Question 9

10. What are three proven methods to reduce the chance of a pedestrian fatality at an uncontrolled crosswalk on a multilane road?

Answer 9

1. The use of a hybrid beacon or a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon
2. Use of advance stop or yield lines
3. Installing a refuge island or median

Question 10

11. How can one change the yielding culture at crosswalks

Answer 10

1. The use of low cost engineering
2. A police enforcement program the uses warnings
3. The use of feedback signs
4. Establishing motivating operations for yielding right-of-way to pedestrians.

Question 11

12. How does the US compare with Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands on the percentage of trips by bicycle?

Answer 11

Each of these countries has far more bicycle trips.

Question 12

13. What does the trend toward obesity look like in the US?

Answer 12

Obesity has steadily increased in the US

Question 13

14. What is the trend in pedestrian and bicycle fatal crashes since 2008.

Answer 13

A steady increasing trend.

Question 14

15. Many pedestrian crashes happen at night. What are good strategies cyclists can take to improve the odds?

Answer 14

1. Wear reflective material on parts of your body that move.
2. Wear reflective clothing or a reflective vest.
3. Use LED flashing lights.
4. Don’t enter a possible drivers path unless you can see whether a car is present and avoid the right hook and left cross.

Question 15

16. What were the results of the Blomberg and Van Houten study?

Answer 15

Motorists increased their passing distance