Design and Demonstration of Pedestrian Waiting Time Countdown at Pedestrian Activated Signals

In response to the increasing concerns of pedestrian compliance and safety at intersection/roadway crossings, this study intends to investigate all critical human-factors issues and intersection-design features that may collectively trigger some pedestrians to ignore the pedestrian-activated signals during intersection/roadway crossing. All identified key factors will subsequently serve as the input information for design and evaluation of a Pedestrian-Waiting-Time Countdown (PWTC) at pedestrian-activated signals.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $153468
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR20B4K

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration

  707 North Calvert Street
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
• Project Managers:

  Xiang, Hua

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  College Park, MD  United States  20742
• Principal Investigators:

  Gang-Len, Chang

• Start Date: 20191220
• Expected Completion Date: 20230531
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compliance; Design; Pedestrian actuated controllers; Pedestrian safety; Waiting time
• Geographic Terms: Maryland
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01743456
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Maryland State Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: SPR20B4K
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 22 2020 1:15PM