The All-University Traffic Committee met Thursday to discuss pedestrian, motorist and bicyclist safety.

MSU police Deputy Chief Mike Rice presented the committee with statistics on bike accidents on campus and ways the university is looking to decrease them.

“There are a lot of facets to the pedestrian safety issue,” Rice said. “Our goal was to get something going, and we have.”

The university has already set up crosswalk yield signs along Shaw Lane between the International Center and the Engineering Building.

Soon, MSU officers will also be monitoring high-accident areas on campus to reduce the risk of injuries.

“This is going to be labor intensive with short durations,” Rice said. “We aren’t going to be out there all day long, just during the busy times where accidents have occurred in the past.”

In the last five years of research, the corner of Chestnut Road and Shaw Lane, the intersection of Farm Lane and Auditorium Road and the crosswalk along the Red Cedar River and Farm Lane are the areas where most accidents occurred.

Of the 47 reported pedestrian accidents, nine were in these areas, including three when the crosswalk sign said “don’t walk.” And of the 61 bike accidents reported, 36 were in these areas.

Although these are the areas of high concentration, Rice said the committee is looking at the whole campus.

But the most important part of this issue is educating students, Rice said.

Suggestions from committee members on how to get the message out to students included having an officer stand on the corner and advertising at the Campus Center theaters in Wells Hall.

Tom Maleck, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and university traffic engineer, has worked on the research project for five years. He said MSU is a special place when it comes to how people get around campus.

“There is no place on Earth like MSU, we are unique.”