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, motorist yielding, and traffic engineering and transit agency perspectives. Conclusions and recommendations based on the supporting information are presented in later sections of this chapter.
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had 15th percentile walking speeds that differed statistically from the 15th percentile walking speeds of the younger pedestrians. • Two studies with databases that contain more than 2,000 pedestrian crossings are the 1996 Knoblauch et al.
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Nearly all the red signal or beacon treatments evaluated were used on busy, high-speed arterial streets. Pedestrian crossing flags and in-street crossing signs also were effective in prompting motorist yielding, achieving 65 and 87 percent compliance, respectively.
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