@article{ref1,
title="Effects of high-visibility enforcement on driver compliance with pedestrian yield right-of-way laws",
journal="Transportation research record",
year="2013",
author="Van Houten, Ron and Malenfant, Louis and Huitema, Brad and Blomberg, Richard D.",
volume="2393",
number="",
pages="41-49",
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.<p/>",
language="en",
issn="0361-1981",
doi="10.3141/2393-05",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2393-05"
}