STUDY ON APPLICABILITY OF WIDTHS OF SIMPLE TWO-STAGE CROSSING FACILITIES ON UNSIGNALISED MID-BLOCK

Abstract

In order to promote crossing pedestrian accident measures in Japan, the purpose of this study is to clarify the effective and safe cross-sectional configuration of a simple two-stage crossing facility that can be installed even on roads with no signal and a sufficient width. Traffic experiments of two-stage crossing facilities with different patterns of cross-sectional configuration were conducted, and their effectiveness and safety as traffic safety measures were investigated. As a result, on the roads surveyed in this study, the widths of the roadway section are 7m to 9m, if the way of using the road is limited as necessary, the possibility of installing two-stage crossing facilities that could be used effectively and safely was confirmed.