The analysis of the impact between motor vehicles and pedestrians at signalized intersection.

Abstract: As more and more trips increase in the decades, the conflicts between the participants are more and more frequent. The main topic of the thesis is to study the impact of the conflicts: the impacts of conflicts between right turn motor vehicles and pedestrians at signalized intersection. The study focus the impacts on urban area. In these areas, the conflicts between pedestrians and motor vehicles are particularly distinct. The situation thesis describes is: most of the signalized intersections whose signal for right-turn vehicle and pedestrian going through are at the same phase, thus unavoidably causes a lot of conflicts between pedestrians and motor vehicles during that time, and it also brings about a great chance of accidents as well. The behavior of motor vehicles drivers and pedestrians highly affects the how they will be conflicted. In addition, the impacts could be different with different flow of motor vehicle and pedestrians. In this process, gap acceptance of the pedestrian weighs a lot. And two models are used here to analyze the conflict. One is from the Swedish Capacity Manual and the other is from HCM 2010. In the thesis, a typical signalized intersection is chosen and the video are recorded to obtain data. The thesis discusses the differences of the two models, and some observed behaviors. And, according to the result, 500 pedestrian flow increase will bring 100 saturation flow rate decrease; and pedestrians flow at peak hour will increase travel time of motor vehicle over 100%. After that, some further studies and alternate methods are discussed.