A Study on Road Crossing Decision Characteristics of Children Focused on Vehicle Cognition Condition

Abstract

Traffic accidents of children have a higher incidence of traffic offence because children tend to make human errors in the road crossing process compared to other age groups. Cognition errors caused by the lack of confirming the safety are often mentioned generally as challenges in road crossing. Many children have not developed well the ability of adequate decision of crossing after vehicle cognition. In this paper, the authors evaluated the road crossing decision characteristics of the children in consideration of the influence of the vehicle cognition state, which provide the concrete suggestion for the traffic safety measures and education. Based on the observation of the crossing decision situation of the children on the test road, it was found that children are more likely to make incorrect decision in short decision time which caused by short distance of a vehicle, and it became difficult to make appropriate decision for vehicle speeds.