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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 247 Appendix B: Product Information Campbell Company B-248 Novax Industries B-251 Bob Panich Consultancy B-254 Polara Engineering B-256 Prisma Teknik B-258 Introduction Information on Accessible Pedestrian Signal (APS) manufacturers was obtained directly from manufacturers and manufacturers' web sites in May 2007 and updated in 2009.
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B - 248 Appendix B: Product Information Campbell Company 450 W McGregor Dr.
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 249 Other • Speaker at Pushbutton • Pushbutton locator tone • Tactile arrow • Automatic volume adjustment • Separate volume controls for locator and speech messages • Actuation indicator: tone, message, LED • Synchronization of initiation and destination for target beaconing • Custom speech messages • Rest in Walk • Extended pushbutton functions • Fault indicator Figure B-1. Advisor FIPS 57 Figure B-2.
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B - 250 Appendix B: Product Information Advisor -- Base Broadcast Unit Walk Indications • Speech Messages and Tones VTO -- Vibrotactile only Walk Indications • Vibrotactile signal at push button -- no audible. OPTIONAL FEATURES • Braille • Crosswalk tactile map • Bluetooth capable INSTALLATION NOTES Advanced Accessible Pedestrian System • Utilizes existing 2 wires from Traffi c Control cabinet • Pre-programmed with adjustments and modifi cations made from laptop Advisor -- Fully Integrated Pedestrian Station • Utilizes existing 2 wires from Traffi c Control cabinet • Ethernet cable from pedestrian station to driver in ped head • No special tools required for installation COMMENTS BBU is designed for intersection with no pedestrian actuation.
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 251 Novax Industries 658 Derwent Way New Westminster, BC, Canada V3M 5P8 Phone: 866-977-4APS (1-866-977-4277) Phone: 604-525-5644 Fax: 604-525-2739 http://www.novax.com MODELS • DS100 • DS3000 Additional components for DS3000: Vibrawalk, with functions of pushbutton and vibrating arrow integrated STANDARD FEATURES DS100 WALK indication • Two or four tones standard, cuckoo and chirp (peep-peep)
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B - 252 Appendix B: Product Information OPTIONAL FEATURES • VibraWalk2 unit which provides pushbutton locator tone, actuation indicator (Button Lamp Indicator, BLI) , Pushbutton information message (Pedestrian Acknowledge)
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 253 Figure B-7. The Vibrawalk2 unit for use with the DS3000 to provide a pushbutton locator tone and a vibrotactile arrow.
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B - 254 Appendix B: Product Information Bob Panich Consultancy PO Box 360 Ryde NSW 1680 Australia Phone: 61 2 9809 6499 Fax: 61 2 9809 6962 http://www.bobpanich.com.au/ MODELS • BPC STANDARD FEATURES WALK indication • Tone -- 500 Hz with a repetition rate of 8.5 Hz -- series of rapid thump sounds • Vibrating arrow Other • Pushbutton locator tone (locating tone) -- 880 Hz with a repetition rate of 1 Hz for US market or 1000 Hz with a repetition rate of 0.55 Hz for Australian market • Tactile arrow • Automatic volume adjustment, with three standard settings for response • Alert tone (transitional tone)
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 255 COMMENTS Complies with specifi cations of the Australian standard; standard pushbutton in Australia. Figure B-9.
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B - 256 Appendix B: Product Information Polara Engineering 9153 Stellar Court Corona, CA 92883 Phone: 888-340-4872 Phone: 714-521-0900 Fax: 714-521-5587 www.polara.com MODELS • Navigator STANDARD FEATURES WALK indication • Rapid tick • Speech message or cuckoo/chirp • Vibrating tactile arrow Other • Speaker at pushbutton • Pushbutton locator tone (locating tone) • Tactile arrow • Automatic volume adjustment -- 60 dB range • Separate minimum & maximum volume settings for Pushbutton locator tone (Locate sound)
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 257 • Direction of travel message • Extended pushbutton functions: o Pushbutton Information message (pushbutton message) o Audible beaconing -- volume increase of WALK indication and pushbutton locator tone during the subsequent pedestrian phase o Extended push priority (mutes entire intersection except selected crosswalk to minimize confusion caused by other sounds)
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B - 258 Appendix B: Product Information Prisma Teknik Box 5 Mariestadsvägen 28 543 21 TIBRO, Sweden Tel: +46 (0)
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Accessible Pedestrian Signals: A Guide to Best Practice B - 259 DAPS WALK indication • Rapidly repeating percussive tone • Vibrating arrow Other • Speaker at pushbutton • Pushbutton locator tone • Tactile arrow • Automatic volume adjustment within range of 55 – 95 dB • Actuation indicator -- light and tone • Crosswalk tactile map (Braille map) • Fault indicator OPTIONAL FEATURES • 10 diff erent tones available by setting with PDA • Custom speech WALK messages, recorded and programmable with PDA • Additional beaconing speaker (TS-995)
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B - 260 Appendix B: Product Information
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