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The Importance of the Approach Towards the Curb Before Pedestrians Cross Streets

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Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) (IEA 2021)

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Multi pedestrian scenarios are the next step towards more realistic traffic research. We conducted a traffic observation with uninformed pedestrians to find differences in behavior depending on the pedestrians group sizes. We found out that most of the pedestrian’s behavior occurs while they approach the street curb which hasn’t been reported in previous research yet. This paper reports several objective data concerning pedestrians’ positions, actions and their timings during the approach towards the curb. We identify potential differences between single pedestrians and two pedestrian groups. The results lay the basis for a future controlled experiment where the found differences will be statistically evaluated.

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  1. Chair of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Luis Kalb & Klaus Bengler

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Correspondence to Luis Kalb .

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  1. Département de génie mécanique, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada

    Nancy L. Black

  2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Kalb, L., Bengler, K. (2021). The Importance of the Approach Towards the Curb Before Pedestrians Cross Streets. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74608-7_82

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