AUDIBLE PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC SIGNALS: PART 3. DETECTABILITY

This paper, the last of 3 companion papers in this journal, describes the detectability of the sounds emitted by the Nagoya/Traconex audible traffic signal, the unit most commonly found in the western U.S., and especially so in California. Three groups of subjects with normal hearing--young sighted adults (controls), elderly sighted adults, and elderly blind adults--participated in an audiological study. Auditory stimuli, consisting of audible pedestrian traffic signal sounds embedded in various levels of interfering traffic noise, were presented to subjects seated inside a double-walled sound-treated chamber. The subjects' speed of response to the auditory stimuli indicated how quickly a pedestrian might begin to cross the intersection upon hearing the audible pedestrian traffic signal.

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  • Authors:
    • Szeto, AYJ
    • Valerio, N C
  • Publication Date: 1991

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 00964590
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 24 2003 12:00AM