Citation

Qi Y, Guoguo A. Int. J. Transp. Sci. Technol. 2017; 6(1): 53-62.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijtst.2017.05.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

At intersections with permissive only signal control, pedestrians will move at the phase with the parallel through vehicular movement and the permissive left-turn movement. The left-turn vehicles have to yield to both opposing vehicles and pedestrians at the crosswalk. Under such complicated driving conditions, collision risks rise if left-turn vehicles make misjudgments and fail to yield to the pedestrians. In this research, driving-simulation based experiments were conducted for identifying and assessing the impacts of the factors that contribute to the collision between the left-turn vehicles and the pedestrians during the permissive left-turn phase. The results of this study showed that the percentage of left-turn trucks and the pedestrian volume has significant impacts on the pedestrian safety under permissive left-turn signal control.

Language: en