Figure 1.
Pedestrian injury hotspot intersections in the City of Vancouver.
The top eight pedestrian injury intersection hotspots were (number of incidents in parentheses): Hastings and Main (16), Broadway and Fraser (11), Georgia and Burrard (11), Hastings and Commercial (11) Hastings and Carrall (11), Broadway and Commercial (10), Hastings and Gore (10), and Howe and Davie (9).
Figure 2.
Total pedestrian and motorist violations observed at intersection hotspots.
Pedestrian and motorist volume and road rule violations were recorded at the top seven high-incident intersections. This map highlights the total combined violations as a proportion of total volume, for pedestrians and motorists. Great variation was observed between hotspots, for example, at Hastings and Commercial almost 40% of pedestrians committed one of the observed road-crossing violations, while only 12% did at Howe and Davie. Meanwhile, just 3.2% of motorists committed a violation at Hastings and Commercial, but 7.4% of motorists did at Howe and Davie.
Table 1.
Violations and volumes of pedestrians and motorists at pedestrian injury hotspots.
Figure 3.
Standardized scores for all violations at seven intersections.
Values above 0 are higher than the mean, below 0 are less than the mean. Using this graph, it is possible to visualize the potential contribution of pedestrian and motorist roadway violations. For example, at Georgia and Burrard, all pedestrian violations are less than the overall mean, while all motorist violations are higher than the mean. This may suggest that interventions at this site might be most effective if motorists are targeted.