Assessment of Pedestrian’s Road Crossing Behavior on Selected Road Segments in Addis Ababa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bikila, Teklu (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tewodros, Tsegaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-06T11:03:54Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-11T08:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-06T11:03:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-11T08:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The injuries and fatalities of pedestrians increases time to time in Ethiopia. This is due to either human, environmental, or engineering factors. The interaction between drivers and pedestrians has a great role to minimize accidents. However, the illegal crossing and movement of pedestrians and the driver faults cause life losses on pedestrians. To reduce the pedestrian injury and fatalities, finding out the pedestrian road crossing behavior is important. This study focused on digging out the pedestrian’s behavior at three selected road segment on the selected road section in the capital city of the country and models are prepared by correlating the behaviors with human factors and speed of the pedestrians during crossing. The study focused on human factors that influence utilization of crosswalk and crossing speed. The road crosser data is collected by video recording for the sake of its convenience. Road crosser behaviors are extracted manually then used for analysis. Three road segments of 15 m length with zebra marked crosswalks are taken as a representative and the data recorded in three different working days. The data collected for two times per day to represent the high and low pedestrian movements. The duration for recording and observation was 15 minutes. There are 494 pedestrians observed while crossing illegally from 1350 road crosser pedestrians. These constitute 37% of the total road crosser within 15m road segment. The extracted data from video is used for analysis by SPSS 25 to determine the influence of human factors on crosswalk utilization and crossing speed on 323 pedestrians. The human factors don’t influence the crosswalk utilization preference of pedestrians. The analysis result shows human factors such as gender, number of elders, crossing group, activities and baggage has significant influence on the road crossing speed. Number of children and waiting time have no significant influence on crossing speed. A model developed for crossing speed is: CRspeed = 1.413+ 0.088Gn -0.116El – 0.11Csize – 0.039talk-0.072talkmob – 0.133redtex + 0.054Bagg. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/20958 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | pedestrian’s behavior | en_US |
| dc.subject | road crossing speed | en_US |
| dc.subject | road segment | en_US |
| dc.subject | crosswalk utilization | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Pedestrian’s Road Crossing Behavior on Selected Road Segments in Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |