Investigating Drivers’ Behaviour at Non-Signalised Pedestrian Crossings
Pedestrian safety is one of the most serious problems in Estonian traffic. Thus every third person killed on the roads is a pedestrian. The main goal of this paper was to find which factors could affect drivers’ attitude to give way to pedestrians at non-signalised crossings. By the obtained data we...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Riga Technical University Press
2007-09-01
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| Series: | The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering |
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| Online Access: | https://bjrbe-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/3869 |
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| Summary: | Pedestrian safety is one of the most serious problems in Estonian traffic. Thus every third person killed on the roads is a pedestrian. The main goal of this paper was to find which factors could affect drivers’ attitude to give way to pedestrians at non-signalised crossings. By the obtained data we could follow up that the main factor influencing drivers willingness to give way at non-signalised urban crossings was motor vehicle traffic volume. The second part of the study involves drivers speed choice at pedestrian crossings. Here we considered that: 1. The driving speeds at crossings are rather high. At almost 60 % of runs the speed was higher than a speed limit. 2. The change in speed at the vicinity of zebra crossing is minor. The situation is especially critical at the crossings with speed limit of 70 km/h. On these sites an average speed is dangerously high at the whole vicinity of zebra crossing and does not allow breaking safely when driver occurs the pedestrian waiting at the roadside. |
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| ISSN: | 1822-427X 1822-4288 |