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Monthly follow-up data confirmed that permanent in-street installations of the R1-6 gateway treatment led to an increase in the percentage of drivers yielding to pedestrians at midblock and multilane urban and suburban locations from 15% to 70% and that these increases endured without any decrement over the spring, summer and fall of 2016. Speed data collected at each site showed 4 to 5 mph reduction in mean speed when motorists traversed the crosswalk when pedestrians were absent which also endured over time. Data on sign durability showed that signs mounted on a curb type mount with a flexible rubber attachment all survived while only 58% of the flush-mounted signs with a pivoting base survived. Data showed that none of the signs mounted on top of the edge of a curb on a refuge island or median island, curb extension, or the curb on the edge of the roadway under FHWA permission to experiment were destroyed or damaged.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF00 Section - Pedestrians and Cycles. Alternate title: An Examination of the Effects of the Gateway R1-6 Treatment on Driver’s Yielding Right-of-Way to Pedestrians, Speed at Crosswalk, and Sign Durability Over Time

18-00132

English

18p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Crosswalks; Drivers; Pedestrian vehicle interface; Pedestrians; Right of way (Traffic); Speed; Traffic signs; Yielding

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-00132

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:03AM