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Toll Facility Safety Study Report to Congress
Strategy Description
Eliminate violation
warning signs.
Post STAY IN VEHICLE
signs at booths.
Install a PA system at
unmanned booths to
enable communication
with drivers.
Some agencies have eliminated or reduced the
conspicuity of toll violation warning signs in
ETC lanes to discourage non-ETC drivers
from stopping and either backing up or
exiting their vehicles to reach a staffed booth.
Such signs should help to prevent drivers
from exiting their vehicles in ETC lanes and
attempting to walk to staffed lanes.
In order to address drivers that stop at
unmanned booths some agencies have
installed public address systems
Rankings from Workshop
Participants and Comments on
Effectiveness 26
Ranked second last (tied) of all strategies
considered for reducing driver confusion
by workshop participants.
Practice may help to reduce unsafe
actions, but does not eliminate them.
Doubts as to the effectiveness of such
signs.
Relatively low cost.
Ranked 7 th (tied) of 16 solutions
considered for reducing driver confusion
by workshop participants.
Considered to be very effective by
agencies that have implemented.
Ranked 6 th of 16 strategies considered by
workshop participants for reducing driver
confusion.
Concerns / Constraints
Questions as to effectiveness of
approach.
Some concerns about legislative
consequences of not providing warnings
of violation prosecution.
Creates additional sign “clutter.”
Questions as to whether or not patrons
actually read them.
May not be cost-effective.
May not work very well in noisy
environments.
Appendix H – Strategies H-20