Pedestrian

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Active and Completed Projects

• School Zone Research
  (09/2025)
• Evaluating pedestrian considerations for transit advantage at roundabouts
  (09/2025)
• Tribal Pedestrian Safety Project - Phase 3
  (08/2025)
• Human Factors: Optimizing Crosswalks and Aesthetic Surface Treatments (a.k.a. Pavement Art) for Pedestrians with Disabilities
  (04/2025)
• Pedestrian Level of Traffic Stress (PLTS) Pilot Implementation for Cook County, IL
  (02/2025)
• Comparative analysis of grade-separated pedestrian infrastructure and at-grade treatments
  (08/2024)
• School times impact on students walking or biking to school: safe routes to school
  (08/2023)
• Effects of walking in greenspace and the built environment in adults with prediabetes: A randomized crossover trial
  (07/2023)
• Behavioral Investigation of Temporary and Permanent Pedestrian Infrastructure
  (05/2023)
• Assessment of Pedestrian Safety and Driver Behavior Near an Automated Vehicle
  (02/2022)
• Multi-Method Investigation of Pedestrian Safety Impacts of Right Turn Lanes
  (06/2021)
• Mobile-device data, non-motorized traffic monitoring, and estimation of annual average daily bicyclist and pedestrian flows
  (06/2021)
• Pedestrian Engineering and Enforcement at Signalized Intersections
  (07/2020)
• Guidelines for safer pedestrian crossings: understanding the factors that positively influence driver yielding to pedestrians at unsignalized intersections.
  (07/2020)
• Rail-Trails Gentrification Study
  (02/2020)
• Understanding Pedestrian Behavior and Safety in Rural Communities
  (06/2019)
• Criteria and Guidelines for Three-Lane Road Design and Operation
  (09/2018)
• Quantifying the Impacts of Complete Streets: The Case of Richfield
  (08/2018)
• Deploy and Test a Smartphone Based Accessible Traffic Information System for the Visually Impaired
  (07/2018)
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety, Equity, and Street Funding: New Criteria for Prioritizing Multimodal Street Projects in Minneapolis
  (02/2018)
• Evaluation of Sustained Enforcement, Education, and Engineering Measures on Pedestrian Crossings
  (06/2017)
• Understanding Pedestrian Travel Behavior and Safety in Rural Settings
  (06/2016)
• Long-Term Effects of Gateway R1-6 Treatment on Yielding to Pedestrians, Vehicle Speed, and Sign Survival
  (05/2016)
• Assessing the Impact of Pedestrian-Activated Crossing Systems
  (11/2015)
• Exploring Walking Tolerance of Transitway Users
  (04/2015)
• Institutionalizing Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Counts and Data Collection
  (12/2014)
• Safety in Numbers? Accessibility, Traffic, and Safety of Nonmotorized Travelers
  (08/2014)
• Performance Measures for Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety: Methodologies for Monitoring Traffic Volumes and Assessing Exposure to Risk
  (07/2014)
• A Positioning and Mapping Methodology Using Bluetooth and Smartphone Technologies to Support Situation Awareness and Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired
  (07/2014)
• Implementing Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Counts and Data Collection
  (04/2013)
• Multimodalism for Small Cities
  (09/2012)
• Using Smartphone App to Help the Visually Impaired Navigate Work Zones Safely
  (08/2012)
• Measuring particulate air pollution using a mobile, bicycle-based platform: Implications for cyclists' and pedestrians' exposure to urban air pollution
  (05/2012)
• Methodologies for Counting Bicyclists and Pedestrians in Minnesota: An Integrated Approach to Measuring and Modeling Non-motorized Traffic
  (10/2011)
• Video Detection and Classification of Pedestrian Events at Roundabouts and Crosswalks
  (09/2011)
• Spatial Cognition of the Blind and Visually Impaired While Using a Mobile Accessible Pedestrian System (MAPS) at Signalized Intersections
  (07/2011)
• Mode share
  (06/2011)
• Investigation of Pedestrian/Bicyclist Risk in Minnesota Roundabout Crossings
  (06/2010)
• Deployment of Practical Methods for Counting Bicycling and Pedestrian Use of a Transportation Facility
  (03/2010)
• Understanding Use of Non-Motorized Transportation Facilities - FY10 TechPlan
  (11/2009)
• Accessible Traffic Signals for Blind and Visually Impaired Pedestrians
  (11/2009)
• Analysis of Practical Methods for Counting Bicycling and Pedestrian Use of a Transportation Facility
  (10/2007)
• Access to Destinations: Application of Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
  (06/2007)
• Warning Efficacy of Active Versus Passive Warnings for Unsignalized Intersection and Mid-Block Pedestrian Cross-Walks
  (09/2006)
• Non Motorized Transportation Project
  (08/2006)
• Access to Destinations: Parcel Level Land Use Data Acquisition & Analysis for Measuring Non-Auto Accessibility
  (07/2006)
• Access to Destinations: How Close is Close Enough? Estimating Accurate Distance Decay Functions for Different Purposes and Multiple Modes
  (07/2006)
• GIS Protocols: Measuring the Pedestrian Environment
  (03/2005)
• Studying the Needs of the Transportation Disadvantaged: Elderly and Developmentally Disabled
  (01/2005)
• The Safety of Pedestrian and Bicycle Travel in Minnesota
  (08/2004)
• Handling Pedestrian Control Issues at Busy Intersections and Monitoring Large Crowds
  (10/2000)
• Development of a Vehicle/Pedestrian Collision Model to Support Neighborhood Traffic Control
  (11/1998)
• Pedestrian Control at Intersections: Phase IV
  (08/1998)
• Pedestrian Control at Intersections: Phase III
  (02/1997)
• Pedestrian Control at Intersections - Phase II
  (09/1995)
• Pedestrian Control at Intersections - Phase I
  (09/1994)