1. PBCAT Software Upgrade Progress and Plans Carol Tan Esse Federal Highway Administration David Harkey University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center Traffic Records Forum July 14 - 17, 2003 Denver, Colorado

2. Presentation Overview What is crash typing? Overview of PBCAT version 1.0 Ongoing applications of PBCAT Planned upgrades for version 2.0

3. Crash Typing Traditional crash data provide where, when and whom facts about ped and bike crashes Lacks information on the sequence of events/causes leading up to crash –important in selecting countermeasures Crash typing fills this gap –initially developed by NHTSA in the 1970’s for peds and bikes

4. PBCAT Version 1.0 Development Goals –Create an automated tool for quickly and easily typing ped and bike crashes –Update/refine the definitions of the 1970’s –Provide links between crash types and potential countermeasures –Provide limited report capability Released in 1999

5. PBCAT Distribution Widely distributed - more than 600 software orders from all 50 states and 28 countries www.walkinginfo.org/pbcat

6. FHWA Pedestrian ITS & Safety Engineering Countermeasures Demo Project Projects in three municipalities –Miami-Dade –Las Vegas –San Francisco Determine high crash locations Identify specific types of pedestrian crashes –Application of PBCAT Implement appropriate countermeasures

7. NC Ped/Bike Crash Query System  5 years of data  11,000 ped crashes  5,000 bike crashes  Annual Crash Facts  On-line Query Function  Summary Reports www.pedbikeinfo.org/pbcat

8. PBCAT Version 2.0 Product Goals –Enhanced crash analysis tool in a more familiar user interface –More user options and greater customization –Greatly enhanced countermeasure information to help improve walking and bicycling safety

9. General Enhancements Navigation and appearance more familiar and user-friendly –i.e., Windows Look Compatibility with existing Access databases Section 508 compliant

10. Version 1 Style and Navigation

11. Version 2 Style and Navigation

12. Crash Typing and Data Entry New, customizable data entry form Ability to capture additional information - including detailed pedestrian crash location variables Abbreviated crash typing option based on fewer crash groups

13. Version 1 Data Entry

14. Version 2 Form Designer & Data Entry

15. Version 1 Crash Typing

16. Version 2 Crash Typing

17. Crash Reports Analysis results will be exportable to Excel Options of displaying tables & charts in frequencies or percents Easy-to-use parameter selection

18. Version 1 Reporting

19. Version 2 Reporting

21. Countermeasures PedSafe Guide and Countermeasure Selection System will be incorporated –under development for FHWA Companion bike expert countermeasure selection system to be added later

22. Version 1 Countermeasures

23. PedSafe Countermeasures

26. PBCAT Upgrade Schedule Beta Version - September 2003 Beta Testing - October 2003 Software Revisions - December 2003 Software Release - January 2004 Technical Support - through December 2005

27. More Information David Harkey UNC Highway Safety Research Center david_harkey@unc.edu Carol Tan Esse Federal Highway Administration carol.tan.esse@fhwa.dot.gov www.walkinginfo.org/pbcat