Power-law in pedestrian crossing flow under the interference of vehicles at an un-signalized midblock crosswalk

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 406, Issue , 2014, Pages 287-297

  Xin, Xiuying ^a   Jia, Ning ^a   Zheng, Liang ^b   Ma, Shoufeng ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CA model; Heterogeneity; Pedestrian vehicle interference; Power law distribution

Indexed keywords

CROSSWALKS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; VEHICLES;

CA MODEL; HETEROGENEITY; MIXED TRAFFIC; MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW; PEDESTRIAN MODELS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL CONTROL; VEHICLE MODEL;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 84898071342     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.068     Document Type: Article

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