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Walking is an important part of a healthy, sustainable transportation system. Yet walking is too often inaccessible, uncomfortable, or unsafe as a practical option for large numbers of people because of traffic risk, discomfort, or inconvenience. Multilane roadways, higher design and posted speeds, and a lack of safe and convenient pedestrian walking and crossing facilities and operations, even at known attractors such as bus stops and grocery stores are consistently associated with pedestrian fatalities in the United States. The risk is much higher at night. Between 2018 and 2022, 76% of U.S. pedestrian crash fatalities occurred in darkness. NCHRP Research Report 1157: Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night: A Guide and NCHRP Web-Only Document 430: Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night, were released this week by TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

Traffic safety public awareness and education efforts are two countermeasures that traffic safety professionals, including those working at state highway safety offices, employ to improve roadway user safety. These efforts are intended to share messaging that will raise awareness of dangerous roadway behaviors, increase knowledge of the impact of these behaviors and safer alternatives, change attitudes about both those behaviors and the alternatives, and ultimately, change those behaviors. BTSCRP Research Report 14: Evaluating Traffic Safety Campaigns: A Guide, and BTSCRP Web-Only Document 7: Objectives, Components, and Measures of Effective Traffic Safety Public Awareness and Education Efforts, were released this week by TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics launched the Transportation Vulnerability and Resilience (TVAR) Data Program in response to Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices from TRB of the National Academies in 2021. The report recommended an analytic framework that incorporated detailed inventories of existing and planned assets, assessing the characteristics and likelihood of future natural hazards, then putting those together to measure and assess resilience.

Find more resources at our Resilient Transportation Systems collection.