Institute of Transportation, MOTC

　　Traffic safety of pedestrian on local street is generally poor due to the lack of space for pedestrian, and the latter causes serious traffic conflict condition between vehicle and pedestrian. There are various traffic calming countermeasures to improve the poor traffic condition of local street. It’s necessary to develop a method to evaluate the performance of such traffic calming countermeasures. Basing on the Risk Index developed in the preceeding research, the level of safety (LOS) is defined and classified into five levels using fuzzy classification method. For practical application, in this paper several locations were selected to assess their level of safety, and, furthermore, the safety performance of proposed improvement countermeasures. The research results indicated that the method is workable.