Category I Dana Talks: Dr. Moses Tefe
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Feb 12, 2025
- 12:00 - 12:50pm
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- Kreitzberg Library
The Charles A. Dana Category I Lecture Series presents "Pedestrian risk perception of marked and unmarked crosswalks in Kumasi, Ghana" with Dr. Moses Tefe, Assistant Professor, Norwich University.
The Charles A. Dana Category I Lecture Series presents "Pedestrian risk perception of marked and unmarked crosswalks in Kumasi, Ghana" with Dr. Moses Tefe, Assistant Professor, Norwich University.
About the Lecture
Pedestrians are overrepresented in urban road crashes in Ghana and road-user behavior has been cited as a major contributing factor to the high crash rates. This study investigated pedestrian risk perception at crosswalks by adopting a mixed-method approach, where secondary crash data for 30 selected crosswalks was correlated with corresponding pedestrian surveys as primary data. The results revealed that pedestrians perceived marked crosswalks to be safer than unmarked crosswalks, but this was contrary to the crash records. It is recommended that indiscriminate road crossing be restricted at high crash locations by channeling pedestrians to protected crossing points in addition to traffic-calming, and public education on safe road-crossing practices while enforcing traffic safety laws.
Event Details:
- Lecture to be held in the Todd Multipurpose Room, Kreitzberg Library.
- Light refreshments will be served, please feel free to bring your own lunch.
About Dr. Tefe
Dr. Tefe received his bachelor’s degree from KNUST, Ghana, and worked in consultancy for a decade before returning to graduate school. His research interests include sustainable transportation planning, transportation planning in developing countries, travel behavior and travel surveys, non-motorized transportation and traffic safety. His professional and scholarly work has been published both nationally and internationally. In 2018, he received a Vermont Genetics Network grant to investigate the safety effect of road sign retro-reflectivity in Vermont.
He received his master’s degree from UNESCO-IHE, Delft in the Netherlands and continued his studies at the University of Alabama, where he completed his PhD in civil/transportation engineering in August 2012. He joined the faculty of the David Crawford School of Engineering at Norwich as an assistant professor in July 2012. He is a graduate of the ASCE ExCEEd teaching workshop.
More information about the Charles A. Dana Category I Grants
The Charles A. Dana Category I Grants are supported by an endowed fund from the Dana Foundation for the purpose of attracting and retaining faculty of exceptional caliber. Grants are awarded annually to tenure-track faculty who demonstrate superior scholarship, teaching ability, and university service.
Grant recipients participate in the Charles A. Dana Category I Lecture Series during the year in which they receive their awards.