---
title: "Safe Speed Index: Ranking America’s Cities for Pedestrian Safety"
description: See where the top 30 American cities rank on unsafe traffic speeds and learn how you can use speed data to advance pedestrian safety.
image: https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/eBooks%20and%20Research/Safe%20Speed%20Index/Safe%20Speed%20Index%20Social%20Image.png
---

[![SLD-logo-homepage](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/SLD-logo-homepage.png)](https://www.streetlightdata.com/)

EBOOK

# Safe Speed Index: Ranking America’s Cities for Pedestrian Safety

##### With pedestrian traffic deaths up over 80% since 2009, road safety is an urgent crisis. 

##### Speed is among the top factors contributing to unsafe streets. Data shows pedestrians are five times more likely to die from crashes when cars are traveling 40 mph vs. 20 mph. So how can we zero in on unsafe corridors and leverage speed and pedestrian data to make streets safer?

##### Download our Safe Speed Index to learn:

- Which U.S. cities have the highest distribution of unsafe speeds 
- Why pedestrian crash risk is higher in southern U.S. cities 
- How to overlay crash data with speed and pedestrian activity to reveal high-risk corridors 

### Download the Index

\*indicates a required field

![Safe Speed Index LP](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/eBooks%20and%20Research/Safe%20Speed%20Index/Safe%20Speed%20Index%20LP.png)

##### “The amount that speeding increased was surprising. It emphasizes the fact that our streets trigger this behavior... We were very grateful to bring attention to this critical issue using the \[StreetLight\] tools.”

![](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/eBooks%20and%20Research/Safe%20Speed%20Index/Nora%20Kern.jpg)

**Nora Kern**

Executive Director, Walk Bike Nashville

## Design safer streets for all with powerful transportation insights

![multimode-1](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Icons%20for%20Landing%20Pages/multimode-1.svg)

Power multimodal safety solutions with metrics for any mode, any road.

![pedestrian](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Icons%20for%20Landing%20Pages/pedestrian.svg)

Quantify equity impact to address disparities in transportation safety.

![metrics-3](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Icons%20for%20Landing%20Pages/metrics-3.svg)

Perform before-and-after studies to measure safety outcomes.

### Powering 10,000+ Projects Every Month

![Siemens Logo](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Siemens%20logo.jpg)

![New York City](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/new%20york%20city%20Department%20of%20transportation%20logo.jpg)

![arup](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/arup%20logo.jpg)

![Toronto](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Toronto%20logo.jpg)

![Arcadis](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/arcadis%20logo.jpg)

![Fehr Peers](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Fehr%20Peers%20logo.jpg)

![VHB](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/VHB%20logo.jpg)

![sandag logo](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/sandag%20logo.jpg)

![NVTA](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/NVTA%20logo.jpg)

![SSTI](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/SSTI%20logo.jpg)

![VDOT logo](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/VDOT%20logo.jpg)

![Stantec logo](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/Stantec%20logo.jpg)

### Safe Speed Index: Ranking America’s Cities for Pedestrian Safety

[DOWNLOAD THE INDEX](https://learn.streetlightdata.com/pedestrian-safety-vehicle-speed-index#form-section)