Use of an emergency call-box system on an urban freeway. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1971.

Author(s)
Goolsby, M.E. & McCasland, W.R.
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Abstract

The authors describe the experience with a push-button call-box system in Houston, Texas. Four types of assistance can be requested, and data for a 6-month period showed that two-third of the disabled motorists failed to use the system either because they were not aware of its existence or because they were fearful of the cost involved. One-third of the calling motorists were classed as being gone on arrival.

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B 2711 (In: B 2710 S) /73/ IRRD 200660
Source

In: Communications and emergency services, Highway Research Record HRR No. 358, 1971, p. 1-7, 4 fig., 11 tab., 3 ref.

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