A Review: Researches on the Effects of Pedestrian Crossing Intersections

Yuanyuan HE

The Institution of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, CHINA

Abstract: Pedestrians crossing the street is one of common phenomena in urban traffic, and it has a large significance to research the behaviors of human and vehicle based on pedestrians crossing streets. When vehicles run in the process of traffic caused disturbances by pedestrians crossing the street, vehicles’ behavior can change according to the different locations .At the same, when the pedestrians crossing the street are disturbed by motor vehicles, pedestrians tend to be affected by the psychological factors, such as the decision to adapt themselves to the traffic environment. According to the reasonable analysis about the pedestrian traffic behaviors,

we can provide the theoretical foundation to solve the problems of the traffic efficiency and the safety evaluations. Thro ugh querying the literature, this paper summarized the recent domestic and international research status on the behavior of pedestrians crossing the street, and mainly summarized the research level and the research methods of model.

Keywords: Pedestrians crossing the street; Intersections; Pedestrians’ psychologies; Conflicts of pedestrians

and vehicles; Building models