Allan Jacobs
November 1994 | 21 minutes
format: DVD

This video complements IURD Working Paper 625, "Boulevards: A Study of Safety, Behavior, and Usefulness," authored by Allan Jacobs, Yodan Y. Rofe, and Elizabeth Macdonald in November 1994.

In this study, a number of research tasks were carried out to gain a better understanding of boulevards and their relative safety. These included: an analysis of accident and traffic volume data on selected boulevards and nearby central streets; detailed measurements of the physical qualities of 19 boulevards (eight in the U.S. and eleven in two European cities); counts of pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the boulevards studied; extended observation and documentation of behavior that included time-lapse and video filming; and a study of existing rules, guidelines, and norms that govern the design of boulevards today, that determine their characters, and that, for all intents and purposes, make it impossible to recreate the best of them.

This video presents both the research and the findings in a more visual manner than does the report referenced above.