Effectiveness of Signal Coordination for Pedestrian Flows Considering Bi-directional Flow Impacts

• K.M. ALHAJYASEEN Wael

  Department of Civil Engineering, An-Najah National University

• LI Meng

  Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University

• NAKAMURA Hideki

  Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University

• DAAMEN Winnie

  Department of Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology

抄録

Existing signal control strategies do not consider pedestrian flows in optimizing signal parameters, which may impose significant delays on pedestrians. This study aims to investigate the rationality and effectiveness of designing signal coordination for pedestrians. A numerical case study in Japan is analyzed. Field survey is conducted to collect the geometric characteristics, signal timings and vehicular traffic condition information. In a parallel approach, the performances of signal coordination for vehicular and pedestrian traffic are estimated by using the vehicular traffic simulation tool Synchro/SimTraffic and the pedestrian simulation tool NOMAD. The results showed that the coordination for the major pedestrian flow led to a significant reduction in average delay (15%). Generally, it is concluded that the effectiveness of pedestrian signal coordination is not guaranteed but depends on the relationship between pedestrian platoon dispersion and the signal cycle length.

収録刊行物

• Asian Transport Studies

  Asian Transport Studies 2 (3), 223-238, 2013

  Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

キーワード

• Signal coordination
• Pedestrian delay
• Platoon dispersion
• Bi-directional flow

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205365029504
• NII論文ID: 130004965110
• DOI: 10.11175/eastsats.2.223
• ISSN: 21855560
• 本文言語コード: en
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