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Citation

Van Houten R, Malenfant L, Huitema B, Blomberg RD. Transp. Res. Rec. 2013; 2393: 41-49.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.3141/2393-05

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study examined the effects of a 1-year high-visibility pedestrian right-of-way enforcement program on yielding to pedestrians at uncontrolled crosswalks, some of which received enforcement and some of which did not. The program included four 2-week enforcement waves supported by education and engineering components that increased the visibility of enforcement. The study produced five results: ( a ) enforcement led to a slow and steady increase in the percentage of drivers yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians over the year; ( b ) the program produced a large change in yielding over the course of the year; ( c ) the program produced higher levels of yielding to natural pedestrian crossing than to staged crossings, and the changes in both were highly correlated; ( d ) the effects of the program generalized to crosswalks that were not targeted for pedestrian right-of-way enforcement; and ( e ) the amount of generalization to unenforced sites was inversely proportional to the distance from sites that received enforcement.

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