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Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night

Posted: 10/19/2025

NCHRP's Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night serves as a state-of-the-art resource for state DOTs to address the high pedestrian fatalities on their roadways, especially at night.

Walking is an important part of a healthy, sustainable transportation system. Yet walking is too often inaccessible, uncomfortable, or unsafe as a practical option for large numbers of people because of traffic risk, discomfort, or inconvenience.

Multilane roadways, higher design and posted speeds, and a lack of safe and convenient pedestrian walking and crossing facilities and operations, even at known attractors such as bus stops and grocery stores, are consistently associated with pedestrian fatalities in the United States. The risk is much higher at night: between 2018 and 2022, 76% of U.S. pedestrian crash fatalities occurred in darkness.

This report features strategies for transportation professionals to implement that can directly enhance pedestrian safety at night; strategies that have been informed by a multi-method study of pedestrian safety in darkness in the U.S.

Supplemental to this report is the web-only document Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night.

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Who is NCHRP?

The National Cooperative Highway Research Program conducts research in problem areas that affect highway planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance in the United States.

Administered under the Transportation Research Board (TRB), NCHRP is a collaborative effort between the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the National Academy of Sciences.

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