Previous studies have shown that traditional traffic conflict indicators that depend on time-proximity are not a viable measure of conflicts severity in all driving cultures. Behavior-based indicators that are dependent on road-users evasive actions were shown to better reflect severity in less-organized traffic environments. The objective of this paper is to examine the use of time proximity-based and evasive action-based indicators on pedestrian conflicts in five major cities; Shanghai, New Delhi, New York, Doha, Vancouver. Time-to-collision is used as the primary time proximity indicator. Pedestrian evasive actions are reflected in the sudden variation of pedestrian gait parameters. Ordered-response models were utilized to relate both indicators to severity taking into account the unobserved heterogeneity in conflicts. Results show that the evasive action-based indicator is most effective in less-organized traffic environments such as Shanghai and New Delhi while the time proximity measure was shown effective in more structured environments such as Vancouver.
Models to evaluate the severity of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts in five cities
Transportmetrica A: Transport Science ; 15 , 2 ; 354-375
2019-11-29
22 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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