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Title:

Impact of Pedestrian Road Crossing on Capacity and Level of Service of Urban Undivided Roads in Indian Traffic Conditions

Accession Number:

01630559

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Road side frictions are defined as those actions related to the activities taking place on the sides of the road and sometimes within the road, which interfere with the traffic flow on the carriageway. Pedestrians are one of the important road side factor normally seen in densely populated areas in India. These road side frictions have a significant impact on capacity of urban roads as well as pose a serious threat to the safety of road users. Quantification of these side friction factors is a challenging task to traffic engineers. Therefore, this paper deals with the study of impact of pedestrian road crossing behaviour on the capacity and level of service of urban undivided roads. For this purpose, traffic video data were collected from pedestrian cross flow locations and ideal locations on urban undivided roads located in Kollam city and Calicut city, India. It was found that the reduction in capacity at pedestrian cross flow locations were found to be 37% for Kollam location and 30% for Calicut location when compared with the ideal locations. It was observed that there is an improvement in the capacity (13% increase) of pedestrian cross flow location at Kollam when traffic cones were temporarily installed in the form of medians. Pedestrian crossing speed was found to be significantly lesser compared to the design speed (1.2 m/s) suggested by Indian Roads Congress (IRC: 103-2012). The quantitative analysis shows that the Level of Service (LOS) of the selected pedestrian cross flow locations changes with change in pedestrians cross flow and vehicular flow. The study will be helpful for traffic planners and designers to improve the existing pedestrian facilities and also, to provide pedestrian safety measures.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-04900

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kuttan, Manu O
Babu, Surjith
Asaithambi, Gowri

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Traffic friction; Undivided highways

Geographic Terms:

India

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-04900

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 11:52AM