title: Exploring safety impacts of pedestrian-crossing configurations at signalized junctions on urban roads with public transport routes.
abstract: This study explored the impacts of pedestrian-crossing configurations and other design features, on accident occurrences at signalized junctions situated on central public transport routes (PTRs) of urban arterials. Statistical tests and negative-binomial regression models were applied to identify factors affecting accidents and to examine accident numbers of the PTR junctions as opposed to comparison-sites. At the PTR junctions, a consistent impact of pedestrian-crossing configurations on accidents was found, where a gradated-crossing with mixed-shifting is the least safe. Four-legged junctions tend to higher accident numbers relative to the three-legged junctions. PTR junctions are characterized by higher accident numbers, related to comparison-sites, when controlling for other design characteristics. The study findings may assist in selecting preferable design solutions while planning PTR.
authors.affiliation: a Road Safety Research Center , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gitelman
authors.affiliation: a Road Safety Research Center , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Roby
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carmel
authors.affiliation: b Technion Statistical Laboratory , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Etti
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Doveh
authors.affiliation: a Road Safety Research Center , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Shalom
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hakkert
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002947:Cities; D004779:Environment Design; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D000069636:Pedestrians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012449:Safety / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016138:Walking
keywords: Public transport routes; pedestrian crossing; safety; signalized junctions