Research Article
Improving Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Crosswalk by Using Upstream Detection Strategy
Table 1
Basic information of two investigated crosswalks in the city of Nanjing.
| | Crosswalk name | Longpan road crosswalk | Huayuan road crosswalk | | Time period | 12:00–13:00 (off-peak hour) | 16:30–17:30 (peak hour) | 12:00–13:00 (off-peak hour) | 16:30–17:30 (peak hour) |
| | Roadway direction | East to West | North to South | | Crosswalk length (m) | 32 | 18 | | Crosswalk width (m) | 6 | 4 | | Number of lanes | 4 in each direction | 2 in each direction | | Maximum vehicle speed limits (km/h) | 60 | 40 | | Vehicle volume (veh) | 1572 (WB∗) | 2009 (WB) | 490 (NB∗) | 571 (NB) | | 1630 (EB∗) | 2024 (EB) | 532 (SB∗) | 733 (SB) | | Vehicle composition | 87.2% cars | 87.8% cars | 61.6% cars | 62.0% cars | | 9.5% buses | 9.9% buses | 9.4% buses | 10.4% buses | | 1.8% trucks | 1.1% trucks | 1.2% trucks | 0.8% trucks | | 1.5% motorcycles | 1.2% motorcycles | 27.8% electric-bikes | 26.8% electric-bikes | | Pedestrian volume (ped) | 48 (NB) | 75 (NB) | 33 (WB) | 45 (WB) | | 41 (SB) | 63 (SB) | 19 (EB) | 42 (EB) | | Pedestrian compliance rate | 85.0% | 71.2% | | Cycle length (s) | 96 | 46 | | Length of pedestrian green interval (s) | 25 | 10 | | All-red time (s) | 3 | 3 |
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Note: ∗WB = Westbound; EB = Eastbound; NB = Northbound; SB = Southbound.
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