Analysis pedestrian’s behavior in expose to vehicles at mid-block crosswalks.

Abstract The most injuries of pedestrians happen when crossings, especially at mid-block crosswalk without traffic lights. Based on this, understanding the behavior of pedestrians and finding effective parameters during crossing can be very important from the point of view of safety. In this article, we tried to analyze pedestrian’s behavior in expose to vehicles, and determine effective factors in gap acceptance at mid-block crosswalk. For this purpose, filming was performed after identify suitable locations. By analyzing videos, effective variables were considered. After analyzing the data, the relationship between the characteristics of pedestrians by with their waiting time along the street to crossing was determined. Also attempts to safety pass and gap acceptance were presented in two models. In the waiting time model, the results showed that women had lower waiting time than men. By increasing  age, the waiting time also increases. The cautiousness of the pedestrian also increases the waiting time. In the gap acceptance model, which was obtained as a probability function by using logistic regression, the distance between the pedestrian to the approaching vehicle and following mode were influential variables on the probability of accepting the distance by pedestrians. The result was shown following pedestrians are more likely to accept the distance.