Similar tactile paving is also used at many ramped crossing points.
However, elevated runways and stages should be ramped for easy access by senior models with mobility issues.
In the case of the ramped sinusoid, shifting to the local max criterion has a dramatic effect.
Human listeners judge ramped sinusoids to sound more like an unmodulated sinusoid than damped sinusoids.
The Pentium 4 was pretty tough for us to get ramped into the marketplace.