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Title: USE OF ANIMATED "EYES" SO THAT MOTORISTS LEAVING AN INDOOR PARKING GARAGE LOOK FOR PEDESTRIANS
Accession Number: 00771173
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Approximately 14% of reported pedestrian crashes occur on private property, most often in a commercial or other parking lot. One way to increase pedestrian safety where the sidewalk crosses the exits of indoor and outdoor parking garages is to prompt motorists to look for pedestrians when exiting the garage. As a possible countermeasure, an animated "EYES" display was erected at an indoor parking garage exit. The animated EYES signal head included two eyes with eyeballs that scanned from left to right at a rate of one cycle per second. Analysis of the data collected during the study indicated that more than a third of the motorists leaving the garage did not look in either direction for pedestrians before crossing the sidewalk. The introduction of the animated EYES increased motorists' observing behavior and reduced pedestrian-motor vehicle conflicts.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1674, Pedestrian and Bicycle Research 1999.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Van Houten, RVan Houten, JMalenfant, JELAndrus, DPagination: p. 57-60
Publication Date: 1999
Serial: ISBN: 0309070724
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 15 1999 12:00AM
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