Pedestrian and Other Traffic Safety

JP Research has long been involved in studies of both local and global traffic issues, including the effect on those who share the roadways with motor vehicles: pedestrians and bicyclists.

Pedestrian Injury Trends

For the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, JP Research addressed adult and child pedestrian injury trends in crashes involving light trucks and passenger cars. The study considered effects of pedestrian impacts with both recent and older light truck models in the US, as well as injury/fatality patterns in Europe and Japan.

Trauma/Crash Data Linking

The Traffic Safe Communities projects, undertaken for San Mateo County Health Services (Emergency Medical Services) in 2000-2001, involved linking and analyzing police, hospital, trauma center, and other agency records of motor vehicle crashes for high-population counties. Research included trauma injury profile development and linking of motor vehicle crash data (from California Highway Patrol—SWITRS—data files) and trauma center injury data (from San Francisco General Hospital and Stanford University Medical Center).

Analyses included identification of types of injuries in severe crash modes for improperly restrained passengers and culminated in recommendations to the county of the types of information their EMS system should capture for future analyses.