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Title: USE OF SIGNS AND SYMBOLS TO INCREASE THE EFFICACY OF PEDESTRIAN-ACTIVATED FLASHING BEACONS AT CROSSWALKS
Accession Number: 00757472
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: This experiment evaluated two strategies for increasing the percentage of motorists yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks equipped with pedestrian-activated flashing beacons. One method involved adding an illuminated sign, with the standard pedestrian symbol next to the beacons. The second method involved erecting signs 50 m before the crosswalk that displayed the pedestrian symbol and requested motorists to yield when the beacons were flashing. Both interventions increased yielding behavior and the effect of both together was greater than either alone. However, only the sign requesting motorists to yield when the beacons were flashing was effective in reducing motor vehicle-pedestrian conflicts.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1636, Bicycle and Pedestrian Research 1998.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Van Houten, RHealey, KMalenfant, JELRetting, RPagination: p. 92-95
Publication Date: 1998
Serial: ISBN: 0309065089
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 4 1998 12:00AM
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