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Title:

A Study on the Confirmation of Pedestrians to Approaching Right/Left Turning Vehicle While Crossing the Crosswalk

Accession Number:

01477727

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In this study head-turning behavior is analyzed to understand where is the best location for the pedestrian to confirm the approaching vehicle in crossing the crosswalk. From the result of the head-turning frequency, it is found that head-turning frequency is increasing towards the entry of the crosswalk and the conflict point. Moreover, results by the analysis of different attributes, head-turning frequency at nighttime or of the elderly person tends to be low; and head-turning was performed more at the conflict point. These results might show that there is a need to provide the information about approaching vehicle. In the pattern that vehicle approaches behind the research participants, head-turning frequency is low; and this imply the need of information for the pedestrians. By the result of the comparison with the different experiment settings, it is found that the position where pedestrian just enter the crosswalk is the best location to confirm the approaching vehicle in the 3 kinds of cases, such as elderly person (having difficulty in crossing), nighttime (restricted visibility), wearing headphones (restricted hearing sense). Moreover, many head-turning behavior were performed at the middle of crosswalk in the case that start position of research participant is R and right-turning vehicle is approaching, and this could be an appropriate confirming action. From the result described above, there exist many critical locations for the crossing pedestrian to confirm the approaching vehicle in a safe manner.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2793

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hamaoka, Hidekatsu
Hagiwara, Toru
Tada, Masahiro
Munehiro, Kazunori
Kono, Takashi
Haga, Kentaro

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2793

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:34PM