The next phase of the scheme will focus on improving pedestrian safety in Market Street.
The study will also look into removing traffic pinch points and pedestrian safety in villages along the route.
Pedestrian safety is an important concern in urban areas, and European manufacturers are leading the way toward enhanced pedestrian safety, probably due to regulation.
Now it has added six new research partners and 10 more initiatives in areas such as driver distraction, pedestrian safety, child safety and elderly drivers.
For example, the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), David Strickland, convened a roundtable meeting with the Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco to discuss traffic and pedestrian safety issues.
One of the key goals of the trail upgrade is to create safe options for active transportation by improving lighting, traffic controls and other measures that have been shown to increase pedestrian safety and reduce injuries and deaths.
The proposed standard, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 141, would fulfill Congress' mandate in the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act that hybrid and electric vehicles meet minimum sound requirements so that pedestrians are able to detect the presence, direction and location of these vehicles when they are operating at low speeds.
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In part this is to meet expected pedestrian-safety legislation, because hybrid and electric cars can be hard to hear at low speeds.
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Both cars and trucks have a long way to go in pedestrian and cyclist safety.
According to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), pedestrian deaths rose slightly in the first six months of 2010, the first time that has happened in four years.
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In this case, the assumption that greater safety is achieved by separation of vehicle and pedestrian is being challenged, and may turn out not to hold up at all for specific city areas.
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