 Graphic: Alliance for Biking and Walking This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of other resources, the Benchmarking Report shows legislators where the nation’s biking and walking infrastructure stands.
After the jump, TSTC presents some of the report’s most interesting figures.
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Vehicle fatalities in New Jersey Data from NJ State Police (link below)
2012’s just begun, and five people have already been killed in New Jersey car crashes.
This spate of deaths comes after a bad year for vehicle safety in the Garden State: there were 13% more fatal motor vehicle crashes and [...]
 NHTSA's data shows a decrease in fatalities per vehicle mile traveled.
In New York, Connecticut, and many other parts of the country, travelling by foot has gotten more dangerous. A recent analysis from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that pedestrian fatalities in car crashes rose by 4.2% between 2009 and 2010. [...]
Between 2003 and 2010, there were 1,003 pedestrian fatalities and 40,150 pedestrian injuries in New Jersey. Rutgers University’s recent “2011 Pedestrian Safety Tracking Report” provides an in-depth analysis of these pedestrian-vehicle crashes—here are some of their most interesting findings:
In addition to its analysis, the Rutgers report contains lots of valuable data visualizations.
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A new analysis from Tri-State has found that between 2001 and 2010, 8,281 bicyclists were involved in crashes in eight Southern New Jersey counties (Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and Salem). During this period there were 63 bicyclist fatalities.
Based on bicyclist crashes per capita, TSTC found that Cape May County [...]
The cost to society of traffic crashes is over three times that of congestion, according to a new report from AAA. The report makes a clear case for the importance of traffic safety projects – road, bike, and sidewalk improvements that typically cost less than road widenings sold to the public as congestion relievers (but [...]
Data from a Hunter College study shows fewer pedestrians being injured by cyclists between 2007 and 2010, the same time frame in which NYC has improved bike infrastructure and cycling has grown.
[Update 9/26: For further reading, see last week's City Room article about how this study has been critiqued by other members [...]
The percentage of NJDOT's capital program going to road capacity expansion has significantly increased in recent years.
What’s the difference between NJDOT’s Final Transportation Capital Program for Fiscal Year 2012, made publicly available this month, and the agency’s draft program released in March 2011? A lot. And although the agency’s yearly capital programs [...]
While roadway improvements have made biking safer in the tri-state area, in many places bikers must still take their lives into their own hands when they ride. In particular, bicyclists on Long Island have a much higher fatality rate than others in the tri-state region. A recent Newsday article highlights the dangers of biking [...]
Tri-State’s newest report, Older Pedestrians at Risk, finds that older pedestrians continue to be far more likely to be killed while walking than their younger neighbors. In addition, the tri-state region continues to have a much higher older pedestrian fatality rate than the rest of the country.
Between 2007 and 2009, 433 pedestrians aged [...]
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