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Title:

A Comparison of Gateway In-Street Sign Treatment to Other Driver Prompts to Increase Yielding to Pedestrians at Crosswalks
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Accession Number:

01506409

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

An important goal to reduce the number of collisions between motorists and pedestrians is to increase motorist's yielding right-of-way to pedestrians in crosswalks. A Gateway installation of in-street signs (one in-street sign installed between the two travel lanes in each direction, and one on both edges of the roadway in each direction) was evaluated on multilane roads. The first experiment compared the efficacy of adding multiple in-street signs used in a gateway configuration with a single sign between the two travel lanes in each direction. The second experiment compared the in-street sign gateway treatment with a more expensive Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon. The third experiment compared the in-street sign gateway with the more expensive Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB), The results demonstrated that the Gateway in-street sign treatment produced very high levels of drivers yielding behavior, and that the Gateway treatment was as effective as the two more expensive treatments.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF00 Pedestrians and Cycles.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-0222

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bennett, Miles K
Manal, Hana
Van Houten, Ron

Pagination:

28p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-0222

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:10PM