PEDESTRIAN DELAY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

The report summarizes a two-year study of the relationships between the delays to pedestrians crossing urban streets and traffic and layout characteristics. A method for estimating pedestrian delays using a trained observer was developed and tested. This was used to record delays at sites where only few pedestrians crossed the road, while waiting times were observed directly at points with higher crossling flows. Four-hundred-twenty-three surveys of delays, traffic and layout characteristics were conducted. Predictive equations for the mean delay and proportion of pedestrians delayed at the various types of location were developed, using multiple linear regression.