A Comparison of Gateway In-Street Sign Treatment to other Driver Prompts to Increase Yielding to Pedestrians at Crosswalks

摘要

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.