Simulating pedestrian movements at signalized crosswalks in Hong Kong

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1314-1325

  Lee, Jodie Y S ^a   Lam, William H K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bi directional pedestrian flow effects; Mean walking time; Pedestrian average delay; Standard deviation and signalized crosswalk

Indexed keywords

FOOTBRIDGES; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS; BI-DIRECTIONAL PEDESTRIAN FLOW EFFECTS; IMPROVEMENT MEASURE; MEAN WALKING TIME; PEDESTRIAN AVERAGE DELAY; PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT; PEDESTRIAN SIMULATION; STANDARD DEVIATION AND SIGNALIZED CROSSWALK;

CROSSWALKS;

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; PEDESTRIANIZATION; SIGNALING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 54049112983     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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