WTMJ featured the research of Robert Schneider and Xiao Qin in their June 23 story “UW-Milwaukee researchers receive $1.6M from US-DOT to study pedestrian, bicyclist safety.”
Urban Milwaukee also featured the team’s research in their June 24 story “State’s Pedestrian Deaths Rise By 50%.”
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, pedestrian and bike fatalities make up nearly 20% of all traffic deaths in the nation and that number is on the rise. Qin and Schneider are looking for ways to reverse this alarming trend.
Schneider is a professor of urban planning in UWM’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning. Qin is a Lawrence E. Sivak ’71 professor of civil & environmental engineering in CEAS.