Assessment Of Pedestrians Road Crossing Behavior On Selected Road Segments In Addis Ababa

The injuries and fatalities of pedestrians increases time to time in Ethiopia. This is due to eitherrnhuman, environmental, or engineering factors. The interaction between drivers and pedestrians hasrna great role to minimize accidents. However, the illegal crossing and movement of pedestrians andrnthe driver faults cause life losses on pedestrians. To reduce the pedestrian injury and fatalities,rnfinding out the pedestrian road crossing behavior is important. This study focused on digging outrnthe pedestrian’s behavior at three selected road segment on the selected road section in the capitalrncity of the country and models are prepared by correlating the behaviors with human factors andrnspeed of the pedestrians during crossing. rnThe study focused on human factors that influence utilization of crosswalk and crossing speed.rnThe road crosser data is collected by video recording for the sake of its convenience. Road crosserrnbehaviors are extracted manually then used for analysis. rnThree road segments of 15 m length with zebra marked crosswalks are taken as a representativernand the data recorded in three different working days. The data collected for two times per day tornrepresent the high and low pedestrian movements. The duration for recording and observation wasrn15 minutes. rnThere are 494 pedestrians observed while crossing illegally from 1350 road crosser pedestrians.rnThese constitute 37% of the total road crosser within 15m road segment. The extracted data fromrnvideo is used for analysis by SPSS 25 to determine the influence of human factors on crosswalkrnutilization and crossing speed on 323 pedestrians. The human factors don’t influence the crosswalkrnutilization preference of pedestrians. The analysis result shows human factors such as gender,rnnumber of elders, crossing group, activities and baggage has significant influence on the roadrncrossing speed. Number of children and waiting time have no significant influence on crossingrnspeed. A model developed for crossing speed is: CRspeed = 1.413+ 0.088Gn -0.116El – 0.11Csize rn– 0.039talk-0.072talkmob – 0.133redtex + 0.054Bagg.

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