Abstract
Abstract Pedestrian safety is a major and growing problem in Indian cities. The current investigation examines crash data (2011–2016) obtained from the Kolkata Police and identifies high-risk intersections for fatal pedestrian crashes in Kolkata City, India. To recognize the significant risk of fatal pedestrian crashes, a set of safety performance functions (SPFs) is developed. These SPFs are an attempt to analyze a host of risk factors ranging from road infrastructure to land use, traffic volume and operational parameters, pedestrian attributes, and the spatial characteristics of an intersection. The study findings show that high speed by approaching vehicles, high levels of pedestrian–vehicular interaction, road width, on-street parking, the absence or encroachment of a footpath, pedestrians’ perceived difficulty of crossing, distractions, signal violations, post-encroachment time, and a number of spatial features such as slum population, share of working population, and population density significantly affect the frequency of fatal crashes involving pedestrians.
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