This guide identifies the various strategies or programs that are being successfully implemented in communities across the country to improve pedestrian safety and reduce pedestrian fatalities and injuries as a result of crashes. To compile this guide, traffic safety experts in big cities and small towns around the country were contacted regarding their pedestrian safety efforts. The goal is to provide an informational resource for community leaders and pedestrian safety activists in planning and developing their own pedestrian safety projects. The guide consists of two primary sections: Community Overviews and Lessons Learned. The Community Overviews section includes a brief introduction that provides the interview questions and describes the criteria for selecting the communities. Also included is background information describing the events that prompted each community to focus specifically on pedestrian safety and the various strategies and programs each community has developed and implemented. The Lessons Learned section describes what a pedestrian safety advocate can learn from the successes and challenges that the communities have faced in the following areas: education; enforcement; partnerships; funding; and evaluation. (Author/publisher)
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