Reducing conflicts between motor vehicles and pedestrians: The separate and combined effects of pavement markings and a sign prompt

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-456

  Huybers, Sherry ^a   Van Houten, Ron ^b   Malenfant, J E Louis ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Ctr for Educ and Res in Safety

Author keywords

Conflict analysis; Pavement marking prompts; Pedestrian safety; Sign prompts

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144254379     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2004.37-445     Document Type: Article

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