Pedestrian Crossing Speed: The Case of Malaysia

Abstract

Pedestrians are vulnerable road users, and they are always at risk when making their daily trips. Hence, roadway design and tra c control devices need to consider pedestrians' safety. Pedestrian walking speed is fundamental to any roadway and tra c control design. Unfortunately, no speci c guidelines exist for pedestrian crossing speed in Malaysia. e ultimate goals of this research are to establish the local pedestrian crossing speed and to identify the contributing factors. A total of 1579 samples on pedestrian crossing speed were collected at signalised and non-signalised crosswalks. e Bivariate analysis (chi-square test) was carried out to study statistically the association of the contributing factors. e Bivariate analysis shows that crosswalk type, age and gender signi cantly contribute to pedestrian speed in Malaysia. However, lighting (daytime and night-time) and race are not contributing to the pedestrians' speed. Besides, pedestrians at non-signalised crosswalk have signi cantly faster crossing speed than at signalised crosswalk. Chi-square test also showed that children pedestrians are the fastest group, and elderly pedestrians are the slowest group in terms of pedestrian crossing speed. Moreover, male pedestrians have signi cantly faster crossing speed than female pedestrians do.

Analysis of Pedestrian Crossing Speed and Waiting Time at Intersections in Dhaka

“…[13,19,[29][30][31] and unsignalized intersections [19,26,32,33]. Previous studies found that male pedestrians were significantly faster than female pedestrians while crossing the road [13,19,26,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. While observing the impact of age on crossing speed, previous studies suggest that with the increase of the age, pedestrian crossing speed tends to slow down [13,19,26,29,30,32,34,35].…”

“…Mean speed in different countries [19]. [13,19,[29][30][31] and unsignalized intersections [19,26,32,33]. Previous studies found that male pedestrians were significantly faster than female pedestrians while crossing the road [13,19,26,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

“…In addition, Brazil and Malaysia also considered a design speed of 1.21 m/s [27,28]. Goh et al showed that the 15th percentile speed for Malaysia is 1.09 m/s and they summarized the mean crossing speed of pedestrians in different countries; these findings are shown in Table 1 [19]. Table 1.…”

“…Table 1. Mean speed in different countries [19]. [13,19,[29][30][31] and unsignalized intersections [19,26,32,33].…”

“…Tanaboriboon and Guyano showed that the speed of pedestrians is lower in Asia compared to Western countries [18]. Therefore, foreign guidelines may not be applicable in the context of Dhaka [19]. Hence, microscopic level research on pedestrian crossing speed and waiting time, and factors affecting these, is required for proper traffic management and pedestrian safety enhancement.…”