ROAD MARKINGS TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AT CROSSINGS

This article describes research to investigate aspects of pedestrian safety and amenity at traffic signals, commissioned by the DITM (now TMT) Division of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR). The aim of the project was to investigate how pedestrians behave at traffic signals, and to relate geometric and control aspects of current layouts to accident records and to attempt to identify features leading to safe/unsafe operation. Following 'before' and 'after' studies at three sites using video surveys, it is clear that there is scope for using low-cost engineering measures to improve pedestrian safety at signal-controlled junctions. (A)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Hemming Group, Limited

  32 Vauxhall Bridge Road
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1V 2SS
• Authors:
  • Wall, G
• Publication Date: 2000-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 136,138-40
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Behavior; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrians; Road markings; Safety; Traffic signals
• ITRD Terms: 9148: Before and after study; 9001: Behaviour; 562: Carriageway marking; 1667: Crossing the road; 1733: Pedestrian; 1665: Safety; 565: Traffic signal
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792951
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 2000 12:00AM