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In the present study, the interaction between vehicle and pedestrian crossing at the undesignated mid-block location is assessed. The traffic survey is conducted at thirteen urban mid-block sections in three heavily populated and fast-growing cities of India. To study the interaction between vehicle and pedestrian, speed of vehicles has taken a prime variable and the effect of pedestrian crossing on vehicle speed has been assessed. The speed reduction in individual category of vehicles due to pedestrian crossings has been determined. Considering the fact that speed is linearly related to density, speed models are generated for section without side friction (base section) and with pedestrian crossing (friction sections) for six-lane urban arterials. The result shows that for the given traffic volume and proportion of traffic mix speed at friction section significantly reduces as compared to the base section. The study is useful for the designer for designing traffic facility as HCM keeps mum in such a traffic condition.
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Authors would like to thank Department of Science and Technology (DST), of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India that subsidizes the research project entitled “Traffic and pedestrian movement analysis at undesignated pedestrian crossings on urban mid-block sections” (File No. YSS/2014/000760).
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Golakiya, H.D., Patkar, M., Dhamaniya, A. (2020). Analysis of Vehicular Pedestrian Interaction at Urban Undesignated Mid-block Sections. In: Mathew, T., Joshi, G., Velaga, N., Arkatkar, S. (eds) Transportation Research . Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 45. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9042-6_31
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