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Intersections are widely known to pose increased risk for road users due to the concentration of conflict points and potential for collisions at non-Safe System speeds. Raised safety platforms (RSPs) have been acknowledged as an effective treatment in reducing vehicle speeds through urban signalised intersections and are also emerging as promising treatments in certain rural applications. Speed results forthcoming from the before-and- after evaluation of six treated and five control intersections have been published previously, where it was found that the RSPs achieved an overall 15.6% reduction in the central tendency of vehicle speed.