A Study on Pedestrian Behavior in Transit Malls Based on Overseas Field Survey

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24560651
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Osaka Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: Hatoko Masatoshi 大阪産業大学, 工学部, 教授 (60278570)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Perry 史子 大阪産業大学, デザイン工学部, 教授 (10238719) ; 塚本 直幸 大阪産業大学, 人間環境学部, 教授 (20247878) ; 伊藤 雅 広島工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (70273464) ; 吉川 耕司 大阪産業大学, 人間環境学部, 教授 (80220599)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: トランジットモール / 歩行者 / LRV / 軌道横断 / 時間間隔 / 等価騒音レベル / 横断角 / 幅員構成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Pedestrian behaviors on the transit malls were analyzed mainly by field survey as survey of peripheral street network, measurement of the width configuration of the transit malls, LRV speed measurement, noise measurement, and video survey of crossing situations. As a result of the researches, the followings were found.
(1) Pedestrians basically don’t walk on the tram track. (2) 0.2-1% of pedestrians on each 1 m of the street start crossing the track. (3) Crossing angle is almost 30 degrees except some. (4) Passengers actively start crossing the track after LRV passing. (5) When the LRV noise grows as the bustle of the street pedestrians begin to refrain from crossing. The distance between the LRV and pedestrians is almost 80 m, and the time from pedestrian crossing to LRV passing is about 20 seconds. (6) When running sound reaches to the level of background noise, few pedestrians walk across the track. The distance is almost 16 m and the time is about 4 seconds.

Free Research Field

交通計画，都市計画