Investigating the Applicability of Upstream Detection Strategy at Pedestrian Signalised Crossings
| Autor: | Birendra Shrestha, Sitti Asmah Hassan, Nick Hounsell |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Engineering
VISSIM pedestrian crossing Ocean Engineering Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Pedestrian Pedestrian crossing Transport engineering 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Upstream (networking) Engineering (miscellaneous) Civil and Structural Engineering computer.programming_language 050210 logistics & transportation biology business.industry 05 social sciences lcsh:TA1001-1280 biology.organism_classification simulation VisSim Puffin signal control 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing lcsh:Transportation engineering business computer Puffin |
| Zdroj: | Promet-Traffic&Transportation Volume 29 Issue 5 Promet (Zagreb), Vol 29, Iss 5, Pp 503-510 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1848-4069 0353-5320 |
| Popis: | In the UK, the Puffin crossing has provision to extend pedestrian green time for those who take longer to cross. However, even at such a pedestrian friendly facility, the traffic signal control is usually designed to minimise vehicle delay while providing the crossing facility. This situation is rather contrary to the current policies to encourage walking. It is this inequity that has prompted the need to re-examine the traffic control of signalised crossings to provide more benefit to both pedestrians and vehicles. In this context, this paper explores the possibility of implementing an Upstream Detection strategy at a Puffin crossing to provide a user friendly crossing. The study has been carried out by simulating a mid-block Puffin crossing for various detector distances and a number of combinations of pedestrian and traffic flows. This paper presents the simulation results and recommends the situations at which Upstream Detection would be suitable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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