Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling

By P. Jacobsen. Injury Prevention, 2003

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Transportation

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Part II: Policy instruments for sustainable road transport (2010, background): “Jacobsen (2003) carries out an extensive study across several European countries and cities in the UK, Denmark and California and concludes: ‘the likelihood that a given person walking or bicycling will be struck by a motorist varies inversely with the amount of walking or bicycling. This pattern is”
Walkability: what is it? (2009, background): “…bias toward lower volumes of pedestrians – and, by inference, lower density land-use contexts – conflicts directly with urbanist values for both accessibility and security, as well as recent literature promoting the idea of “safety in numbers” for non-motorized transportation (Jacobsen 2003).”
Evaluating Active Transport Benefits and Costs (2013, background): “Jacobsen (2003) found that collision rates between motor vehicles and pedestrians and cyclists increases at roughly 0.4 power of walking and cycling activity (e.g., doubling NMT travel in a community will increase pedestrian/cycling injuries by 32%), a pedestrian’s risk declines 34% if walking and…”
Health impact assessment of active transportation: A systematic review. (2015, background): “, 2013); and (3) the concept of ‘safety in numbers’ assumes a less than proportional increase in incidents, with increased walking and cycling share and acquired modal co-existence (Jacobsen, 2003; Elvik, 2009).”
Infrastructure, programs, and policies to increase bicycling: an international review. (2010, background): “Moreover, as bicycling levels increase, injury rates fall, making bicycling safer and providing even larger net health benefits (Elvik, 2009; Jacobsen, 2003; Robinson, 2005).”
Meta-analysis of the relationships between space syntax measures and pedestrian movement (2018, background): “Second, increasing PM reduces automobile use and thus enhances environmental sustainability (Frank et al., 2006), traffic safety (Jacobsen, 2003), as well as the overall vibrancy and quality of public realm (Appleyard, 1980).”
‘Eyes on where children play’: a retrospective study of active free play (2015, background): “…children to play with has been previously cited as a factor that encourages children’s play (Valentine 1997; Veitch et al. 2006; Tucker, Gilliland, and Irwin 2007) and incidents such as road traffic accidents are less likely when people are walking or cycling together in numbers (Jacobsen 2003).”
Cycle commuting in Belgium: Spatial determinants and ‘re-cycling’ strategies (2011, methodology): “Finally, the Jarque-Bera statistic was used to test the assumption of normality.”
Promoting walking and bicycling: assessing the evidence to assist planners (2010, background): “Places with more such activities have lower collision rates (Jacobsen, 2003).”