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Category Archives: Pedestrian Injury
Tree Canopy Cover Linked to Lower Risk of Pedestrian Falls
Our latest research, just published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology, suggests that higher levels of tree canopy cover helps prevent injurious pedestrian falls. The research found that during summer months, locations on streets and sidewalks where pedestrians fell … Continue reading
Expanding the BEH Research Portfolio
This summer we had the good fortune to start working with Emergent BioSolutions and have recently completed our first round of deliverables: an abstract accepted to the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference; and a paper on new methods to … Continue reading
Posted in Injury, Methods, Pedestrian Injury, Safety, Transportation
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Pedestrian Injury Research
Our work on pedestrian safety is an extension of our work on how urban design can be used to support engagement in pedestrian activity and physical activity. As we have built our portfolio of pedestrian injury research, we have come … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Alcohol, Bike Share, CANVAS, Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Street View, Transportation, Urban Design, Walkability
Tagged cycling, News, road-safety, traffic, Transportation
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Falls prevention focuses on indoor falls, but outdoor falls are just as severe.
Continuing our work on pedestrian falls we just published a paper in Injury Epidemiology focused on describing the clinical severity of injurious falls, distinguishing between falls that occur indoors and those that occur outdoors. While falls prevention guidelines focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Walkability
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The Burden of Pedestrian Falls on Streets and Sidewalks in the U.S.
After doing substantial work documenting the links between greater neighborhood walkability and higher engagement in pedestrian activity and reduced weight gain, in recent years we have launched research projects on pedestrian safety. In new work just published in the Journal … Continue reading
Newly Funded Work on Pedestrian Injury
We have recently been funded by NIH to conduct a four-year study of how urban design, the locations of alcohol selling establishments, night life districts and locations of services for the homeless influence pedestrian fatality risk. We will be conducting … Continue reading
National Geographic Cities Issue
Just a quick note: The April 2019 issue of National Geographic focuses on Cities and how to redesign them to support health, sustainability and community. The issue covers transit oriented design, China’s new urban design regulations, walking through Tokyo, the … Continue reading
Launching the Interactive-Pedestrian Injury Mapper (I-PIM)
In 2015 in the U.S. 5,376 pedestrians were killed and 70,000 were injured. The Built Environment and Health Research Group has just launched the Interactive-Pedestrian Injury Mapper (I-PIM) website (HERE), to crowd source the collection of data on locations where … Continue reading
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Using Google Street View to Understand Pedestrian Injury Risk
In 2013, an estimated 70 000 pedestrians were injured or killed by motor vehicles in the United States. In New York City more pedestrians than vehicle occupants have been killed by motor vehicles each year since at least 1910. Pedestrian … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Pedestrian Injury, Safety, Street View
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