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Pedestrian Safety: Drivers Stopping Behaviors at Crosswalk

Version 1 : Received: 19 May 2023 / Approved: 22 May 2023 / Online: 22 May 2023 (04:56:22 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 19 June 2023 / Approved: 20 June 2023 / Online: 20 June 2023 (03:46:20 CEST)

A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.

Nkurunziza, D.; Tafahomi, R.; Faraja, I.A. Pedestrian Safety: Drivers’ Stopping Behavior at Crosswalks. Sustainability 2023, 15, 12498. Nkurunziza, D.; Tafahomi, R.; Faraja, I.A. Pedestrian Safety: Drivers’ Stopping Behavior at Crosswalks. Sustainability 2023, 15, 12498.

Abstract

The safety of a pedestrian crossing may depend on infrastructure, vehicular and pedestrian traffic characteristics. This research portrayed the safety challenges caused by vehicles on crosswalk in the City of Kigali. Through observing the stopping of drivers in pedestrian crossing events, the study aimed to evaluate driver’s behaviors against traffic flow parameters. 10 collection sites were finally selected purposively and randomly to suit observations for data recording. A total of 10,259 crossing events were recorded within 280 hours. Statistical analysis, tests and Binary logistic regression model were used to evaluate the behaviors. Sadly,82.4% drivers violated crosswalks, endangering crossing. Motorcyclists exhibit the most aggressive behavior. Car drivers are relatively less aggressive,60% managed to brake in the events. Buses and bicycles share a negligible collective of 2%, being aggressive and would not stop. Cars are 10.389 times more likely to stop compared to bicycles. Having more vehicles in a row was safer to cross, for each unit increase on the vehicle density scale, there were 1.956 more chances that every driver would stop.13% to 21% of traffic variables predicted the variance in stopping behaviors model. Further research is needed to find other parameters that influence a driver to stop.

Keywords

Pedestrian safety; Traffic characteristics, City of Kigali; Binary logistic regression

Subject

Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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