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Toll Facility Safety Study Report to Congress
Appendix G – Agency Workshop / Workshop Ratings
Participants of the June 25/26 Toll Facility Safety Study Workshop were asked to review each of
the safety strategies that the study team had uncovered throughout the course of this study. The
team presented the strategies in 7 categories and the 20 participants were asked to select and rank
3 strategies within each category that they believed would have the greatest potential to improve
safety for both workers and customers at toll plazas. The tables that follow present the workshop
findings. Each table represents one category; the categories of challenges include: Worker
Exposure to Vehicles; Environmental Issues; Ergonomics; Assault 13 ; Merging and Lane
Changing; Speeding; and Driver Confusion and Distraction. Note that the categories presented
in the workshop differ slightly from the categories presented in this report. The table titles
indicate the category names as presented at the workshop while a footnote below each table
indicates the title of the category as presented in Section 4 of this report.
The results are ranked by the number of participants who selected the strategy as among the top
three most effective strategies to improve safety in that category. The strategies are listed in the
first column, followed by the number and percent of participants who thought it would be the
most effective, second most effective, and third most effective. The last two columns show the
number and percentage of respondents who selected the strategy as one of the top three most
effective in that particular category of strategies.
For example, for the first strategy listed as a potential option for addressing safety issues
resulting from merging and lane changing behavior, 15 participants (75 percent) indicated that
this was the strategy with the greatest potential to improve safety for workers and customers at
toll plazas. Three respondents thought this would be the second most effective strategy, resulting
in 90 percent of respondents selecting this as one of the top three strategies to consider when
addressing safety issues resulting from merging and lane changing behaviors.
Much of the information gathered through the agency workshop is presented, together with a
synthesis of the site visits and interviews, in Section 4, Findings – Factors Affecting Safety at
Toll Plazas.
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Note that data for the category entitled “Assault” was not able to be retained from the system due to a power
outage that occurred during the workshop.
Appendix G – Agency Workshop / Workshop Ratings Page G-1