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Title:

An Experimental Study of Pedestrian Behavior and Safety Perception

Accession Number:

01515175

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Physiological indicators are selected to find out the characteristics of pedestrians' behavior and safety perception in different traffic environments. Using biofeedback equipment, 36 participants of different age, gender and occupations are asked to do the walking experiment and complete a survey in Nanjing, China. Besides walking along the sidewalks, they should cross two signalized intersections, a pedestrian actuated signal (push-button), an unsignalized mid-block crosswalk in their normal speeds and behaviors. According to the heart rate data of pedestrians in different facilities, different groups, different behaviors and different waiting time intervals, the authors find that heart rate can factually reflect pedestrians' safety perception and psychological state during walking, as well as the inner activities of tenseness, fear and excitement. Pedestrians feel safest when walking on the independent sidewalk, while feel the most dangerous at unsignalized mid-block crosswalks. And pedestrians have higher heart rate when they are running at the red light and under the conditions of external interference as they feel nervous, such as influenced by electrical bicycles' noise in the sidewalk. In addition, it is verified that pedestrians usually get impatient as waiting time increases. Finally, some suggestions are given for the traffic engineers, urban planners and policy makers to improve pedestrian safety.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians. Alternate title: Experimental Study of Pedestrian Behavior and Safety Perception

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-2530

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhou, Zhuping
Wang, Wei
Hu, Qizhou
Li, Haiyuan

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Nanjing (China)

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2530

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:53PM