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67 chapter eight WORK ZONE SPEEDING PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH INTRODUCTION Many state transportation departments and other agencies engage in public education and outreach aimed at increasing compliance with work zone speed limits and improving work zone safety in general. To date there have been very few assessments of the effectiveness of these campaigns.
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68 Views/ Day Views Date Published Length (min:sec) Sponsor Title Theme Description 116.02 77,150 11-Jun-12 0:32 Vermont DOT AOT Summer Work Zone Safety Be considerate of workers Clips of workers asking people to respect them and slow down and be safe.
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69 Views/ Day Views Date Published Length (min:sec) Sponsor Title Theme Description 1.15 15 25-Mar-14 3:57 Oklahoma DOT Workzone Awareness Respect and awareness for highway workers Anecdotes from two workers involved in a work zone crash.
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70 Views/ Day Views Date Published Length (min:sec) Sponsor Title Theme Description 0.38 142 25-Mar-13 5:32 Iowa DOT The Work Zone "Twilight Zone" theme Over-achieving driver with license plate GOGETR is so impatient she hits a flagger, then suddenly finds she is the flagger.
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71 GENERAL FINDINGS A number of observations emerged from this process: • In general, agencies produce work zone safety videos in two formats: short PSAs (typically 30 seconds in duration) and longer videos probably intended for use in driver education classes (typically about 5 minutes long)
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72 zone at speeds in the mid-60s if there was no visible work activity. When there was activity, drivers slowed by about 10 mph and went through the work zone at speeds in the upper 50s to low 60s -- still above the work zone limit.
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73 To date, very little information has been published about the extent to which work zone PSAs influence driver behavior. In 2013, Saskatchewan conducted an online panel survey as a follow-up to the highly publicized worker fatality described in Case Example 1.
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74 Canadian guidance on work zone speed management recommended that the following information be considered for inclusion in driver instruction manuals (Harmelink and Edwards 2005) : • The importance of safety for both motorists and workers.
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