Pedestrian safety under permissive left-turn signal control
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2017
Abstract
At intersections with permissive only signal control, pedestrians will move at the phase with the parallel through vehicular movement and the permissive left-turn movement. The left-turn vehicles have to yield to both opposing vehicles and pedestrians at the crosswalk. Under such complicated driving conditions, collision risks rise if left-turn vehicles make misjudgments and fail to yield to the pedestrians. In this research, driving-simulation based experiments were conducted for identifying and assessing the impacts of the factors that contribute to the collision between the left-turn vehicles and the pedestrians during the permissive left-turn phase. The results of this study showed that the percentage of left-turn trucks and the pedestrian volume has significant impacts on the pedestrian safety under permissive left-turn signal control.
Recommended Citation
Qi, Yi and Guoguo, Aohan, "Pedestrian safety under permissive left-turn signal control" (2017). Faculty Publications. 193.
https://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/facpubs/193