Do pedestrian countdown signals influence vehicle speeds?

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2149, 2010, Pages 70-76

  Nambisan, Shashi S ^a   Karkee, Ganesh J ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; VEHICLES;

PEDESTRIAN COUNTDOWN SIGNALS; SIGNAL-ON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEHICLE SPEED;

SPEED;

EID: 78651336766     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2149-08     Document Type: Article

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