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Presenters: Eugene Bouquin COMS and Robert Wall Emerson COMSPart I: Risk and the impact of the built environments: Serious risk to blind pedestrians at street crossings comes nearly exclusively from drivers who do not stop or slow down. Many variables of our built environment present greater or lesser risk. In part 1, presenters will review some of the major variables to consider when deciding where to cross and some of the science of why drivers do not yield.Part 2: Risk and pedestrians control over drivers: Serious risk to blind pedestrians at street crossings comes nearly exclusively from drivers who do not stop or slow down. Until recently, the factors that influence drivers yielding were considered mostly external to the traveler. Part 2 presents the latest findings which can be applied directly to O&M practices at crosswalks. |
