Figure 1, SWOMA 2017 Logo showing a stick figure women with a cane, stick figure man with a dog guide, a compass with braille letters N, S, E, W, and Conference title of "Exploring Changing Times"
2017 SWOMA Conference
Region 4 ESC Houston, TX
October 20-21, 2017
Street Crossings for Travelers Who are Visually Impaired
Presented by,
Linda Myers, COMS
Wendy Scheffers, COMS
Street Crossing for Travelers Who are Visually Impaired
Linda Myers, TVI/COMS, Marin County Office of Education
and Wendy Scheffers, COMS, San Francisco State University
Slide 1, TAPS 3rd Edition
Part 4: Supplement
Street Crossings for Travelers Who are Visually Impaired
Linda Myers, COMS
Wendy Scheffers, COMS
Slide 2, Why
- Lowers the inherent risk in crossing streets
- Better ability to travel independently in familiar and unfamiliar areas
- Less need for mobility instruction in future
Slide 3, Contents
- Intersection Analysis, 7
- Street Crossings, 117
- Scanning to Monitor Traffic, 205
- Additional Tools, 231
- References, 255
- Glossary, 257
Slide 4, Intersection Analysis Section
- Four quick references
- Analysis and street crossing charts
- Reducing the rist at street crosssings
- Crossing an uncontrolled street
- Understanding signalized intersections
- Channelized right-turn lanes and circular intersections
Slide 5, Reducing Risk at Street Crossings
Figure 1, small, thumbnail photos of slides coming up next
Slide 6, Street Crossings
Figure 2,A sports car driving on an open road about to run over a slippery banana peel
Slide 7, Photo/Image Slide
Figure 3, A graphic of a shared use path with a bicyclist waiting with a vehicle at a traffic light =
Slide 8, Photo/Image Slide
Figure 4, A mother riding a bike with her child in a toddler seat, they are ring in a bike lane alongside vehicles
Slide 9, Image Slide
Figure 5, Close up view of yield line, basically five triangles side by side across the lane; the bases of the triangles are face up, towards the crosswalk or as if the apex of each triangle is pointing toward approaching. Photo also includes the text “Yield Line”.
Figure 6, Yield Lines at Unsignalized Crosswalk, Two-Way Traffic is title of image; displays, lanes approaching a pedestrian crossing and about two car lengths before crosswalk there is a yield line as described in image 5 and the striping between lanes changes from a dashed line to solid line.
Slide 10, Photo Slide
Figure 7, A photograph of a striped pedestrian crossing, also showing the vehicle lane approaching with a stripes oriented perpendicular to direction of vehicle direction to highlight caution and yielding.
Slide 11, Photo Slide
Figure 8, Photo of a pedestrian crossing a two-lane road divided by a developed median with a paved walkway through the middle of the median. The limit lines for the vehicles are off set so the pedestrian walkway through the center of the median is a small zig zag.
Slide 12, HAWK
Figure 9, Photograph of pedestrian crossing a multi-lane roadway with controlled by a HAWK light, also called a Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon.
Slide 13, Bulb-outs (Google FHWA bulb-out)
Figure 10, Graphic showing a bulb-out at a corner; the bulb-out extends into roadway at the corner and extends to block the width of one vehicle land. Notes include- Curb radius: as determined by design vehicle, Length: at least 5’ beyond extension of the corner property line, Width: as determined by adjacent lanes.
Slide 14, Photo slide
Figure 11, Aerial photopgraph of urban community with modernized traffic engineering solution to minimize traffic congestion and keep the main street flowing where possible. The entrances to driveways are set off on a separate lane and divided by a median from the main roadway.
Slide 15, Intersections are changing. Be involved so they are safer for ALL (all in all caps) pedestrians!
Figure 12, Aerial photograph of large volume intersection and an adjacent roundabout.
Slide 16, Photo slide
Figure 13, Closer view of the intersection described in Figure 12.
Slide 17, Unfamiliar Intersections
Blind Traveler
Turn to TAPS 8-29
Handouts 14-15
Slide 18, Familiar Intersections
Blind Traveler
Turn to Handouts 16-17
Slide 19, Signalized Crossings
Turn to TAPS 162-164
Handout 18
Exceptions to the Near Parallel Timing: TAPS 175-190
Slide 20, Charting
Blind Traveler
Turn to Handouts 19-20
Figure 13, Image of handout of Analysis and Street Crossing Chart for Travel Who is Functionally Blind
Slide 21, Channelized Turn Lanes
CTL’s
Turn to TAPS 191-197
Figure 14, Graphic of channelized turn lane at an intersection. Shows the channelized right turn lane with the pedestrian crosswalk area. It is labeled Upstream Street where vehicles enter the channelized lane, and Downstream Street where they exit the channelized land and merge with the new street.
Slide 22, Question?
Slide 23, Thank you!
SWOMA Sponsors
Region 4 Education Service Center (ESC), Houston
Figure 15, Region 4, ESC logo.
Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Outreach Programs, Austin, TX
Figure 16, TSBVI logo.
Street Crossings for Travelers Who are Visually Impaired, SWOMA 20171