ATSSA Signal September October 2020

The Signal | September/October 2020 15 ATSSA News such as highway safety improvement funds or project funds. “There’s a lot of options available, and many times those who can make those decisions are unaware of these options available to them to use better positive protection,” he said. DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS Below are highlights of the draft FHWA Current and Future Federal Actions to EnhancePedestrianSafety. Theguidelines will be distributed for nationwide use. For completion by the end of 2020: • Produce a lighting design guide and implementation policy to promote pedestrian safety in an urban street environment (including lighting at walkways adjoining schools) that are applicable throughout the country. • Provide a community-based bicyclist and pedestrian behavioral safety assessment to include a tool, manual, and data analyzer for communities to assess their pedestrian and bicycle safety issues, and identify local recommendations; conduct the initial pilot in 10 high-risk pedestrian injury communities in the NHTSA regions. • Develop cost-effective countermeasures that have known safety benefits, such as Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons (PHB), pedestrian refuge islands, leading pedestrian intervals and road diets, raised crosswalks, crosswalk visibility enhancements, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, etc. • Test vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communications that can sense the environment around them and communicate that information to other vehicles, infrastructure, and to personal mobile devices. For completion by the end of 2021: Plan for multimodal communication in a connected and automated vehicle (CAV) future by conducting research and describing scenarios on how pedestri - ans and bicycle network planning may change as deployment of this technol- ogy becomes more widespread. For completion by the end of 2022: Conduct astudy todetermine theusability of automated technologies andproducts inside and outside the vehicle for indi - viduals with disabilities and vulnerable road users, utilizing user needs analysis, participatory design, empirical research, and interface approaches.  To reach Shandra Martinez, [email protected] .