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Pedestrian temporal and spatial gap acceptance at mid-block street crossing in developing world

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Title Pedestrian temporal and spatial gap acceptance at mid-block street crossing in developing world
 
Creator PAWAR, DS
PATIL, GR
 
Subject HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC FLOW
CRASHES
MODEL
Pedestrians midblock crossings
Gap acceptance
Temporal gap
Spatial gap
Logit model
 
Description Introduction: Most of the midblock pedestrian crossings on urban roads in India are uncontrolled; wherein the high degree of discretion in pedestrians' behavior while crossing the traffic stream, has made the situation complex to analyze. Vehicles do not yield to pedestrians, even though the traffic laws give priority to pedestrians over motorized vehicles at unsignalized pedestrian crossings. Therefore, a pedestrian has to decide if an available gap is safe or not for crossing. Method: This paper aims to investigate pedestrian temporal and spatial gap acceptance for midblock street crossings. Field data were collected using video camera at two midblock pedestrian crossings. The data extraction in laboratory resulted in 1107 pedestrian gaps. Available gaps, pedestrians' decision, traffic volume, etc. were extracted from the videos. While crossing a road with multiple lanes, rolling gap acceptance behavior was observed. Using binary logit analysis, six utility models were developed, three each for temporal and spatial gaps. Results and conclusions: The 50th percentile temporal and spatial gaps ranged from 4.1 to 4.8 s and 67 to 79 m respectively, whereas the 85th percentile temporal and spatial gaps ranged from 5 to 5.8 s and 82 to 95 m respectively. These gap values were smaller than that reported in the studies in developed countries. The speed of conflicting vehicle was found to be significant in spatial gap but not in temporal gap acceptance. The gap acceptance decision was also found to be affected by the type of conflicting vehicles. Practical applications: The insights from this study can be used for the safety and performance evaluation of uncontrolled midblock street crossings in developing countries. (C) 2014 National Safety Council and Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2016-01-15T04:29:40Z
2016-01-15T04:29:40Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH, 52,39-46
0022-4375
1879-1247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2014.12.006
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17760
 
Language en