Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction at Uncontrolled

Intersections in Mixed Traffic Conditions

First Semester Progress Review

Presented by Supervisor
Lalam Govinda Dr. K. V. R. Ravi Shankar
717109 Assistant Professor

Transportation Division
Department of Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Warangal-506004, Telangana, India
July-2018
 Overview
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 Introduction

 Literature Review

 Summary of Literature Review

 Progress of work

 Plan for next semester

 Overall PhD Plan

 References
 Introduction
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 Pedestrian crossing: Area of road designated specifically for

the people to cross a section of road safely.

 Uncontrolled intersection is one of them.

 Uncontrolled intersection: where no traffic lights, road

markings or signs are used to indicate the right-of-way.

 Provides opportunity for the pedestrians to cross the

intersection.
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Table1 : Total road accident statistics in road crossings from

2014 to 2016 in India
Total number of road accidents At pedestrian crossings

Year Total Persons Persons Total Persons Persons

accidents killed injured accidents killed injured

2014 228089 51344 213819 18755 5661 17042

2015 238637 54066 223129 20320 5934 17534

2016 216638 56643 220868 28397 9486 26365

(Source: http://www.morth.nic.in/searchresult.asp?lang=1)
 Literature Review
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Author
Sl.
Name & Title Findings Remarks
No.
Year
Vehicle-
• Longer TDTC values • Not discussed about
Pedestrian
in VPF case pedestrian safety
Zang et interaction
1. • Distance between w.r.t vehicle type.
al. (2011) analysis in
Pedestrian & Vehicle • Signalized
mixed traffic
is longer in PPF case intersection (China)
conditions
• Pedestrian speed is
Speed different for different • Can be extended for
Distribution locations, gender, and comparing the
Chandra
Curves for facilities. pedestrian speeds at
2. et al.
Pedestrians • Significant difference intersections, mid-
(2013)
during Walking between pedestrian blocks, and
and Crossing walking speed and sidewalks
crossing speed.
 Author
Sl.
No.
Name & Title Literature
Findings Review Remarks
6
Year

• Average travel time

delay of both pedestrians
Travel Time
and vehicles increased
Delay at
Istavan exponentially with • Homogenous
Pedestrian
3. Fi increase in vehicle traffic conditions
crossings based
(2013) volume (Hungary)
on
• Introduction of refuse
microsimulation
island results in smaller
average travel time delay

Marisam Study on
ynathan • Crossing Speed
Pedestrian
Deviation Factor (CSDF)
and crossing • Signalized
4. decreased as the
Vedagiri behaviour at intersections
pedestrian volume
Perumal signalized
increased
(2014) intersection
 Author
Sl.
No.
Name & Title Literature
Findings Review Remarks
Year
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Pedestrian risk • Male pedestrians take • Not included the

weather
Ravishan analysis at more risks than female
uncontrolled pedestrians in crossing. conditions and
5. kar et al.
midblock and • Rolling gap behaviour is road side
(2017)
un-signalised observed in heavy traffic activities in the
intersections condition questioner survey

• Probability of collision
Surrogate
occurring at the end of P-
safety analysis • Signalized
V interaction is higher for
Chen et of P-V conflict
6. smaller PET values. intersection
al. (2017) at intersections
• Walking outside (China)
using UAV
crosswalk is more
videos
dangerous.
 Summary of Literature Review
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 The pedestrian road crossing behaviour depends on many

parameters i.e. pedestrian age, gender, pedestrian crossing
speed, vehicle type, vehicle speed, weather conditions etc.

 Average travel time delay of both pedestrians and vehicles

increased exponentially with increase in vehicle volume

 Significant difference between pedestrian walking speed

and crossing speed.

 Most of them were related to either homogenous conditions

or signalized intersections.
 Objectives
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 To determine the effect of vehicle type on pedestrian

safety at uncontrolled intersections in mixed traffic
conditions.

 To analyse the effect of pedestrian age and gender on

travel time delay at uncontrolled intersections in mixed
traffic condition using microsimulation.

 To develop a model for pedestrian-vehicle interaction at

uncontrolled intersections in mixed traffic conditions.
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First semester progress:

 Course work completed (8 credits)

S. No. Course Name Credits

Probability and Statistics methods in
1 4
Transportation Engineering
2 Highway Capacity Analysis 4
3 English for Scientific communication Satisfactory

 Identify the problem statement

 Literature review and objectives

 Plan for next semester
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 Course work for next semester: Behavioural analysis of

vehicles and pedestrians (4 credits)

 Literature review

 Methodology

 Selection of study locations and data collection

 Pilot study
 Overall PhD Plan
12 Months
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42

Course Work

Literature Review
Problem statement
and Objectives
Methodology
Study area selection
and data collection
Pilot Study

Data Extraction

Analysis

Simulation

Modelling
Thesis preparation
and submission
 References
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 Istvan Fi and Zsuzsanna Kovacs Igazvolgyi (2013)” Travel Time

Delay at Pedestrian crossings based on microsimulation”, periodica
polytechnic, 58/1, pp. 47-53.

 Kodavanti Venkata Raghavendra Ravishankar and Parvathy

Maheswari Nair (2017) “Pedestrian risk analysis at uncontrolled
midblock and unsignalised intersections”, Journal of Traffic and
Transport Engineering, 5(2), pp. 137-147.

 Marisamynathan, Vedagiri Perumal (2014) “Study on pedestrian

crossing behaviour at signalized intersections”, Journal of Traffic and
Transport Engineering, 1(2), 103-110.
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 Nicholas N. Ferenchak (2016) “Pedestrian age and gender in relation

to crossing behavior at midblock crossings in India”, Journal of Traffic
and Transportation Engineering, 3(4), pp. 345-351.

 Satish Chandra, and Anish Kumar Bharti (2013) “Speed Distribution

Curves for Pedestrians during Walking and Crossing”, 2nd Conference
of Transportation Research Group of India, pp. 660-667.

 Yingying Zhang, Danya Yao (2012) “Pedestrian Safety Analysis in

Mixed Traffic Conditions Using Video Data”, IEEE Transactions On
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 13(4), 1832-1844.
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