Pedestrian Gap Acceptance and Crossing Decision outside Crossing Facilities along Urban Streets in Malaysia: A Case Study of Rughaya Street, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
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Walking considered as one of the safest modes of
travel available, sustainable to human society as well as
environmentally beneficial. In this context, the aim of this
research is to investigate pedestrians’ traffic gap acceptance
and crossing decision for Mid-block Street crossing in urban
areas in Malaysia. Pedestrian crossing behaviour at
Rughaya Street has been examined in terms of the decision
to cross or not the street and size of traffic gaps accepted by
pedestrian, as well as the related contributing factors. A
field study was conducted to collect the data of pedestrians’
decisions under real mix traffic Condition using video
camera on a typical unsignalized urban street section. JPEG
files were obtained from video recording by using Snapshot
Wizard software. The data extracted included traffic
characteristics such as traffic size, traffic speed, etc.
pedestrian individual characteristics such as gender, in
addition to individual behavior such as waiting, frequency
of attempt, etc.). Furthermore, The extracted data were
used to develop and examine a pedestrian gap acceptance
model based on A lognormal regression model and binary
logistic model by SPSS (22) in order to validate the impact
of various parameters on the size of traffic gaps accepted by
pedestrians as well as the effect on the decision of
pedestrians to cross the street or not.
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