WARRANTS FOR ZEBRA AND PELICAN CROSSINGS USING A MINIMUM WAITING COST CRITERION

Pillai recently suggested that warrants to establish a type of pedestrian crossing should depend on the acceptable delay to vehicles. At a time when the importance of the pedestrian has become more universally recognised, a more realistic approach would consider both pedestrian and vehicle delays. It is the purpose of this paper to describe such an approach in which the change-over criterion from zebra to pelican crossings is based on the minimisation of the sum of pedestrian and vehicle waiting costs. (A) /TRRL/

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• Authors:
  • Griffiths, J D
  • Hunt, J G
  • Cresswell, C
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Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 59-62
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus priority; Costs; Crosswalks; Digital computers; Minimization; Pedestrians; Simulation; Specifications; Traffic delays; Traffic signal preemption; Traffic signals; Vehicles; Waiting time; Zebra crossings
• Uncontrolled Terms: Minimum
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1057: Air transport network; 224: Cost; 9010: Delay; 8673: Digital computer; 9046: Minimum; 1733: Pedestrian; 1659: Pedestrian crossing; 648: Priority (traffic); 9103: Simulation; 177: Specifications; 565: Traffic signal; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137511
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM