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INCREASING DRIVER YIELDING AND PEDESTRIAN SIGNALING WITH PROMPTING, FEEDBACK, AND ENFORCEMENT
Author(s) -
Houten Ron,
Malenfant Louis,
Rolider Ahmos
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1985.18-103
Subject(s) - pedestrian , warning signs , intervention (counseling) , enforcement , psychology , baseline (sea) , multiple baseline design , law enforcement , applied psychology , transport engineering , engineering , psychiatry , political science , law
The effects of an intervention package on drivers' yielding to pedestrians and on pedestrians' signaling their intention to cross the street were assessed using a multiple baseline design. The intervention, which consisted of publicly posted feedback on the percentage of motorists yielding to pedestrians, small signs prompting pedestrians to engage in appropriate crossing behavior, and an enforcement program involving the use of warning tickets and feedback fliers, was sequentially introduced on two streets. The intervention more than doubled the percentage of motorists yielding to pedestrians and increased the percentage of pedestrians signaling their intention to cross the street to over 13% from a baseline level of less than 1%. Near misses involving pedestrians decreased by more than 50% on the narrower of the two streets.