Factors Affecting Pedestrian Crossing Behaviors at Signalized Crosswalks in Urban Areas in Beijing and Singapore

This paper reports an observation investigation of pedestrian crossing behaviors conducted at signalized crosswalks in urban areas in Singapore and Beijing on typical workdays. Each crosswalk was observed 3 times in different periods, i.e. normal hours, lunch hours, and rush hours. A total of 103,956 pedestrians were observed. The results showed that lane type, lane number, intersection type, and culture had significant effect on illegal pedestrian crossing in both cities; observation period had no significant effect on pedestrian violation in both cities; the violation rate in Singapore was lower than that in Beijing. However, observers reported that illegal crossing of vulnerable pedestrians, e.g. pregnant, the lame, old men and women, was more obvious in Singapore than that in Beijing. Evidence proved the hypothesis that the violations were related to pedestrians' cognition of the definition of safety.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/41177(415)138
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Jiang, Nan
  • Shi, Mi
  • Xiao, Yilong
  • Shi, Kan
  • Watson, Barry
• Conference:
  • First International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)
  • Location: Wuhan , China
  • Date: 2011-6-30 to 2011-7-2
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1090-1097
• Monograph Title: ICTIS 2011: Multimodal Approach to Sustained Transportation System Development: Information, Technology, Implementation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crosswalks; Pedestrian safety; Signalized intersections
• Geographic Terms: China; Singapore
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01450522
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411773
• Files: TLIB, TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Oct 30 2012 9:29AM