Dr. Robert Schneider and Master of Urban Planning students Bryan Walter, Natalie Marshall, and William Henning led the literature review and national pedestrian fatal crash modeling analysis for The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 1157, “Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night.”
The guide from this project provides safe system strategies to reduce nighttime pedestrian risk. Managing speeds (e.g., road lane reconfiguration, speed feedback signs, automatic speed enforcement, lower speed limits) is a key strategy that will improve safety for pedestrians as well as all other roadway users at night.