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Title: USING AUDITORY PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS TO REDUCE PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLE CONFLICTS
Accession Number: 00743136
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Turning vehicles are a potential threat to pedestrians at intersections. As a possible countermeasure, an experimental auditory pedestrian signal was developed to prompt pedestrians to look for turning vehicles at the start of the walk signal. Analysis of observational data collected during the experiment shows that the auditory signal increased pedestrian-observing behavior and almost eliminated pedestrian motor vehicle conflicts at a signalized intersection. The presence of the auditory message appeared to prime pedestrians to respond more rapidly to turning vehicles.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1578, Pedestrian and Bicycle Research 1997.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Van Houten, RMalenfant, JELVan Houten, JRetting, R APagination: p. 20-22
Publication Date: 1997
Serial: ISBN: 0309061687
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Nov 18 1997 12:00AM
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