Anthony, some good links. My city has a well-known road safety issue. My real challenge is "simply" getting the authorities to acknowledge they have a problem - and hire me!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Anthony Hempell <ahemp...@telus.net> wrote: > I saw the following article in Slate on roundabouts (and the cultural > aversion to them in the US) which may provide some starting points for you; > the hyperlinks are very good as well. > > http://www.slate.com/id/2223035/ > > > "roundabouts are safer than traditional > intersections<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1446639> > for > a simple reason: By dint of geometry and traffic rules, they reduce the > number of places where one vehicle can strike another by a factor of four. > They also eliminate the left turn against oncoming traffic—itself one of the > main reasons for intersection danger—as well as the prospect of vehicles > running a red light or speeding up as they approach an intersection to "beat > the light." The fact that roundabouts may "feel" more dangerous to the > average driver is a good thing: It increases vigilance." > > > On 21-Jul-09, at 11:28 AM, Rob Epstein wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Monnier <monn0...@umn.edu > >wrote: > > Here's an example from Minneapolis where the two terminals at MSP > > airport (as well as the signs directing freeway traffic to the > > airport) are being relabeled (at tremendous cost) because the current > > labels are uninformative. Currently the airport's two terminals are > > labeled "Lindberg" and "Humphrey," but those names don't mean > > anything to most travelers. So the terminals are being relabeled as > > "Terminal 1" and "Terminal 2," respectively. Additionally, the > > signs will indicate which airlines are associated with which > > terminal. > > > Some up-front usability testing would have revealed the hubris of > > using cryptic terminal labels when it would have been cheap to make > > changes and could have saved the airport and whoever's paying for > > the freeway signs a lot of money. > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
