Attach <br />Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners <br />Attach <br />Key measures Examples of interventions Effectiveness <br />Proven <br />Promising <br />Insufficient <br />evidence <br />Improve Provide education, outreach and training <br />pedestrian and <br />motorist safety Develop and/or enforce traffic laws on <br />awareness and speed, drinking and driving, pedestrian <br />behaviour right-of-way, red light disobedience, <br />commercial roadside activity and traffic <br />control <br />Implement 'walking school bus' <br />programmes <br />Improve Develop vehicle safety standards and <br />vehicle design laws for pedestrian protection <br />for pedestrian <br />protection <br />Improve Enforce vehicle safety standards and <br />vehicle design laws for pedestrian protection <br />for pedestrian Publicize consumer information on <br />protection pedestrian safety by make and model <br />of car, for example, results of New Car <br />Assessment Programmes <br />Improve care Organize pre-hospital trauma care <br />for the injured systems <br />pedestrians Establish inclusive trauma care systems <br />Offer early rehabilitation services <br />Note: When the terms 'proven', 'promising' and 'insufficient evidence' appear highlighted in the same line, it shows that <br />there are different measures in the same broad category at different stages of development as already explained above <br />with respect to effectiveness. <br />Source: 1-7. <br />There are several important principles practitioners and decision-makers should be <br />guided by when choosing which pedestrian safety measure(s) to implement: <br />Conduct a situational assessment and utilize the results <br />The findings of the situational assessment should inform the selection and <br />prioritization of interventions to address the pedestrian safety problem in a given <br />setting. Other considerations for intervention selection include cost, effectiveness, <br />feasibility and acceptability. <br />A holistic and multifaceted approach is preferable to a narrow focus <br />A combination of the measures presented in Table 4.1 will be more effective <br />than implementing a single strategy. Cost and feasibility should not be the only <br />considerations when choosing interventions. Strategies that may be easier to <br />implement may have a smaller impact. For example, installation of pedestrian <br />warning signs may increase pedestrian awareness and reduce some risk, but a more <br />65 <br />C <br />B <br />11 <br />