Evaluation of pedestrian crosswalk level of service (LOS) in perspective of type of land-use |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;3. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Taiz University, Taiz, Yemen.;1. Department of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Hanyang University Erica Campus, 55 Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan 426-791, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, NWQ4414, P.O. Box 784, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA;1. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa;2. Centre for Transport Studies, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;1. Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, 518C Weil Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States;2. Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, 511 Weil Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States;3. University of Florida Transportation Institute, University of Florida, 512B Weil Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States;4. Highway Systems, Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States;5. Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States |
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| Abstract: | In India pedestrians usually cross the road at mid-block crosswalks due to ease of access to their destination or the development of adjacent land use types such as shopping, business areas, school and residential areas. The behaviour of pedestrian will change with respect to different land use type and this change in behaviour of pedestrian further reflects change in perceived level of service (LOS). So, it is important to evaluate the quality of service of such crossing facilities with respect to different land-use type under mixed traffic conditions. In this framework, pedestrian perceived LOS were collected with respect to different land-use type such as shopping, residential and business areas. The ordered probit (OP) model was developed by using NLOGIT software package, with number of vehicles encountered, road crossing difficulty as well as safety considered as primary factors along with pedestrian individual factors (gender and age), land-use type and roadway geometry. From the model results, it has been concluded that perceived safety, crossing difficulty, land-use condition, number of vehicles encountered, median width and number of lanes have significant effect on pedestrian perceived LOS at unprotected (un-signalized) mid-block crosswalks in mixed traffic scenario. The inferences of these results highlights the importance of land use planning in designing a new set of pedestrian access facilities for unprotected mid-block crosswalks under mixed traffic conditions. Also the study results would be useful for evaluating pedestrian accessibility taking into account different land-use type and planning required degree of segregation with vehicular movement at unprotected mid-block crosswalk locations. |
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| Keywords: | Level of service Mid-block Land-use type Mixed traffic Order probit |
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