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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2016.36.5.0847

Estimating the Dimension of a Crosswalk in Urban Area - Focusing on Width and Stop Line -  

Kim, Yoomi (Chonnam National University)
Park, Jejin (Korea Expressway Corporation)
Kwon, Sungdae (Gwangju Metropolitan City)
Ha, Taejun (Chonnam National University)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.36, no.5, 2016 , pp. 847-856 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, with a high level of economic growth, rapid urbanization, population, environment and housing problems were accompanied in Korea. In particular, the traffic problem has become a serious social problem. As the current transportation policy has been carried out, concentrating on traffic flow, in 2015, death rate for pedestrians while walking (1,795 persons) is 38.8% compared to entire death rate in car accident (4,621 persons), so there is need to solve it. Although, crosswalk should make pedestrian cross it safely, it has been made on the basis of the width of road without exact standard for current width of the crosswalk and the location of stop line. Moreover, in the area around many campuses or commercial facilities, crosswalks are set with not considering pedestrian passage, but designed uniformly. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to estimate reasonable dimension of crosswalk considering pedestrian traffic and walking speed and it makes the accident rate lower in the crosswalk, which has a lot of problems including decisions of vehicle traffic signal time, lack of pedestrian's signal timing, pedestrian's crossing of long-distance. The following are the methodology of the study. Firstly, for crosswalk calculation of specifications, examination relating existing regulations and researches dealing with crosswalk, pedestrians and stop line is needed. After analyzing problems of current width of crosswalk and stop line, present the methodology to calculation of specifications and basing on these things, calculation of specifications for crosswalk will be decided. In conclusion, the calculation of specification and improvement of stop line for crosswalk laid out in this study are expected to be utilized as base data in case of establishing relevant safety facilities and standards.
Keywords
Traffic safety; Crosswalk; Pedestrian; Stop line;
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