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CHAPTER 4: ONLINE SURVEY OF PRACTITIONERS INTRODUCTION This chapter provides a summary of the findings from a web-based survey of practitioners at transit agencies in the United States. The survey, conducted through the internet, asks practitioners for information on current and previous treatments used to reduce conflicts between pedestrians and rail vehicles, as well as other approaches they have used with respect to pedestrian safety at transit rail crossings.
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The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is conducting a research project sponsored by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
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Type of Transit rail Service Operated 1. What type(s)
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Pedestrian Crossing Treatment Removal 10. Has your transit agency installed any pedestrian crossing treatments listed in the previous question (also listed below)
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Thank you for participating in this survey. Your responses will be helpful in generating the guidebook for safe and effective treatments for pedestrian crossings for public transit rail services.
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Table 4. Pedestrian treatments currently in use.
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Table 5. Pedestrian safety treatments in use by type of rail service offered.
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platform and sidewalk across the tracks and street and channels them to the crosswalk at either end of the platform. • Audible Pedestrian Units in certain low noise areas.
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treatments, education/enforcement, markings, operational treatments, signals, and signing all had representation on a relatively widespread basis. Question 3: Treatments Removed from Use The survey asked respondents to indicate if they had removed any pedestrian crossing treatments that were previously installed.
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agencies. The same four agencies did not use all four of those methods, but three agencies had all of those approaches in common.
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opportunities. Provide appropriate lighting, and required emergency backup power.
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• Every treatment had at least one response, and each of the treatment categories except for Operations had at least one treatment with eight or more responses, suggesting that transit agencies are utilizing a variety of approaches in addressing pedestrian safety. Gate skirts, in-pavement flashing lights, and low-rise flashing lights were rarely used by respondents.
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