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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Accid Anal Prev. 2018 Mar;112:116–126. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.12.026

Table 2.

Description of variables (N=863).

Category Variable Description Source

Crash Pedestrian crash frequency Number of pedestrian crashes SDOT
Road network 3-way intersection Number of 3-way intersections/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
4-way intersection Number of 4-way intersections/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
5-way intersection Number of more than 5-way intersections/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
Sidewalk density Sum of sidewalk length/zonal area (1km/km2) SDOT
Street elements Steep area proportion Proportion of steep areas (0~ 1) PSRC
Bus stop density Number of bus stops/zonal area (1/ha) King County
Stop sign density Number of stop signs/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
Zonal Speed Limit Zonal-mean posted driving speed limit (mph) SDOT
Land use Household density Number of households/zonal area (1k/ha) PSRC
Employment density Number of employments/zonal area (1k/ha) PSRC
Land use mixture Entropy of five types of land use (0~1) PSRC
Commercial land use Proportion of commercial and mixed land use PSRC
Government & office Proportion of office and government land use PSRC
Public parks Proportion of public parks SDOT
Industrial land use Proportion of industrial land use SDOT
School density Number of schools/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
Activity center density Number of activity centers/zonal area (1/ha) SDOT
Traffic demand Walking mode share Proportion of pedestrian trips divided by total number of trips (0~ 1) PSRC
Number of trips Total number of trips (1k) PSRC