Pedestrian crossing behavior at midblock crosswalks

Tezcan, Hüseyin Onur; Elmorssy, Mahmoud; Aksoy, Göker

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2019.09.014

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“…For average crossing time, both the flashing beacon and smartphone app scenarios have a lower average crossing time compared to the as built scenario; additionally, there is no significant differences between the flashing beacon and smartphone app crossing time. The pedestrians have a lower wait time before crossing, but spend more time during the crossing, this is aligned with an observational study conducted by 18 at midblock crosswalks in which pedestrians who waited for little or no at the curbside generally lost time during the crossing.…”

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“…Among all road users, Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and bicyclists are gaining more attention as they have an increasing fatalities in recent years 16,17 . Among these, VRUs, pedestrians are facing more safety challenges on the road, especially during the midwalk crossing as they have less protective equipment and slower speed than the vehicles, scooters, and bicycles 18 . National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has reported a 35% increase in pedestrian fatalities nationwide between 2008 and 2017 16 .…”

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Rethinking infrastructure design: Evaluating pedestrians and VRUs' psychophysiological and behavioral responses to different roadway designs

Guo¹,

Angulo²,

Tavakoli³

et al. 2022

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The integration of human-centric approaches has gained more attention recently due to more automated systems being introduced into our built environments (buildings, roads, vehicles, etc.), which requires a correct understanding of how humans perceive such systems and respond to them. This paper introduces an Immersive Virtual Environment-based method to evaluate the infrastructure design with psycho-physiological and behavioral responses from the vulnerable road users, especially for pedestrians. A case study of pedestrian mid-block crossings with three crossing infrastructure designs (painted crosswalk, crosswalk with flashing beacons, and a smartphone app for connected vehicles) are tested. Results from 51 participants indicate there are differences between the subjective and objective measurement. A higher subjective safety rating is reported for the flashing beacon design, while the psychophysiological and behavioral data indicate that the flashing beacon and smartphone app are similar in terms of crossing behaviors, eye tracking measurements, and heart rate. In addition, the smartphone app scenario appears to have a lower stress level as indicated by eye tracking data, although many participants don't have prior experience with it. Suggestions are made for the implementation of new technologies, which can increase public acceptance of new technologies and pedestrian safety in the future.

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Rethinking infrastructure design: Evaluating pedestrians and VRUs' psychophysiological and behavioral responses to different roadway designs

Guo¹,

Angulo²,

Tavakoli³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…The data collection method of pedestrian crossing behavior is mainly photography, but the data processing methods are different. Pedestrian behavior data can be collected through video capture of pedestrian crossing preferences, roadside and traffic characteristics, and pedestrian characteristics [6,7]. These data can be used to establish binary logistic regression models for pedestrian crossing strategies.…”

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Analyzing Pedestrian Behavior at Unsignalized Crosswalks from the Drivers’ Perspective: A Qualitative Study

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This study investigated drivers’ perceptions of pedestrian crossing behavior at unsignalized crosswalks, which was less fruitful in quantitative and qualitative traffic research. Subjective and snow-ball sampling were used to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews based on drivers’ daily driving experience from qualitative research. A theoretical model of pedestrian behavior at unsignalized crosswalks was constructed using the grounded theory and the theoretical saturation test. The model involved 4 three-level codes and 13 two-level codes (main category) used to obtain seven subcategories. The results show that drivers believe that pedestrian characteristics, driver characteristics, and age factors are the three factors that affect pedestrian crossing safety. Targeted improvement measures are put forward to guide the design of pedestrian crossing facilities, pedestrian management and guidance, and future research on conflicts between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians.

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“…Despite jaywalking events are particularly risky, they had received less attention. Most of the literature studies have focused on the behaviour of pedestrians during crossing (Deb et al 2017;Zhou et al 2019;Zafri et al 2020;Tezcan et al 2019), their crossing speed (Iryo-Asano et al 2017;, the acceptance of the time gap (Petzoldt 2014;Lobjois, Cavallo 2007;Lobjois et al 2013;Shaaban et al 2019) or on the analysis of driver's behaviour while approaching pedestrian crossings under different conditions of traffic calming measures (Fisher, Garay-Vega 2012;Bella, Silvestri 2015;Domenichini et al 2019).…”

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Vehicle–pedestrian Interactions Into and Outside of Crosswalks: Effects of Driver Assistance Systems

Bella¹,

Silvestri²

2021

Transport

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This study aimed to analyse the driver’s behaviour during the interaction with a pedestrian crossing into and outside the zebra crossing, and evaluate the effectiveness of two kinds of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) that provided to the driver an auditory alert, and a visual alert to detect the pedestrian. 42 participants joined the experiment conducted using the fixed-base driving simulator of the Department of Engineering (Roma Tre University). They experienced different crossing conditions (legal and illegal) and ADAS conditions (no ADAS, visual warning and auditory warning) in an urban scenario. The parameters Time-To-Arrive (TTA) and Speed Reduction Time (SRT) were obtained from the drivers’ speed profiles in the last 150 m in advance of the conflict point with the pedestrian. Results clearly showed the criticality of illegal crossings. When the pedestrian crossed outside of the crosswalk, the highest number of collision occurred and the ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) returned significant effects on both the dependent variables TTA and SRT, highlighting the higher criticality of the vehicle–pedestrian interaction and the more abrupt yielding manoeuvre. Positive effects (the vehicle–pedestrian interaction was less critical and the yielding manoeuvre was smoother) emerged for both the driver assistance systems, although not statistically significant. Besides, both the driver assistance systems positively affected the behaviour of the average cautious drivers. No significant effects of the warning systems were recorded on the aggressive drivers, which because of their behavioural characteristics ignored the warning alarm. In addition, no significant effects of the warning systems were recorded for the very cautious drivers, which adjusted their behaviour even before the alarm trigger. Finally, the outcomes of the questionnaire submitted to the participants highlighted the clear preference for the auditory warning, probably because of the different physical stimuli that are solicited by the warning signal. The results confirm that adequate pedestrian paths should be planned to avoid jaywalker conditions, which induce the driver to assume critical driving behaviour and provide useful findings of the effectiveness of driver assistance systems for pedestrian detection.

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Pedestrian crossing behavior at midblock crosswalks

Cited by 41 publications

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Rethinking infrastructure design: Evaluating pedestrians and VRUs' psychophysiological and behavioral responses to different roadway designs

Rethinking infrastructure design: Evaluating pedestrians and VRUs' psychophysiological and behavioral responses to different roadway designs

Analyzing Pedestrian Behavior at Unsignalized Crosswalks from the Drivers’ Perspective: A Qualitative Study

Vehicle–pedestrian Interactions Into and Outside of Crosswalks: Effects of Driver Assistance Systems

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