Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior

Discussion

An overarching goal of the present project was to determine which environmental factors influence where pedestrians cross the roadway. Pedestrian crossing behaviors were observed and coded at five different locations in this phase. It was hoped that these data would help to identify factors that influence pedestrians to cross at unmarked non-intersection locations. As was discovered in phase 1 of this study, the number of unmarked non-intersection crossings is overall quite low. As a result, modeling was not attempted for the phase 3 sites alone. Instead all data were combined to create a predictive model. It is discussed in more detail later.

In phase 3, none of the locations were identified as outliers in terms of crossing location, yielding, or evasive actions. Next, all 20 locations (phases 1–3) are compared with one another and environmental factors are explored.