Pedestrian safety around elementary schools

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2009

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Çiçek, Bünyamin Erkan

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This study establishes pedestrian safety focused environment around elementary schools. In order to reach this objective 3 consecutive goals are fulfilled; firstly; proposing, a newly designed black spot analysis, “Behavioral Black Spot Analysis”, secondly; documenting pedestrian behavior around black spots, and finally stimulating effective interventions around elementary schools. This study proposes a newly designed methodology; “Behavioral Black Spot Analysis” which is namely based upon pedestrians’ route choice and risk perception statements. Additionally it is observed that students choose the shortest route on their way. “Behavioral Black Spot Analysis” reveals that traffic flows, pedestrian visibility, vehicle visibility, waiting time, road width are most important parameters of pedestrians’ perception of traffic safety. Results of unobtrusive observations indicate that interventions have significant effect on vehicle speed, number of conflicts, yielding behavior of drivers, total number of cars forming a queue, number of pedestrians stopping on the curb, head movements, crossing angles, crossing tempos, and crossing distances of pedestrians. Behind this interventions affects pedestrians’ waiting time in negative manner. Recommendations for pedestrian safety interventions are suggested.

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Psychology., Elementary schools, Psychology M.S. thesis

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611198/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18913

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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B. E. Çiçek, “Pedestrian safety around elementary schools,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.