i'm working about road safety.My research is related to road safety on signalised intersection.I'm studied the driver prononess to go on during red phase and now i'm studing on the same area the proneness of pedestrian to go on or out zebra crossing during green phase.I asked if there are more details and correlation among driver-pedestrian-traffic light phase.
Thanks Tizania. I can't call a relevant study to mind, but I have some comments.
1) From research I've done and seen, it seems that there is a very strong site-specific influence on pedestrian behaviour. Two intersections that are close together and have many of the same pedestrians going through them can show quite different patterns of behaviour and crashes.
2) One of the known influences on pedestrian proneness to cross illegally is the cycle length, i.e. if there is a very long delay for pedestrians, they are more likely to take chances and cross illegally. This can be manipulated by changing cycle lengths.
3) When illegal behaviour by pedestrians is observed by age, me recollection is that teenagers running across a road is more of an issue than old people entering illegally.
4) With age, walking speed decreases and (importantly) ability to hurry up also decreases (there was a study published on this in the last year or two but I can't find it in my files) so older people might still be crossing when the light changes, but this is not the issue you identify.
I don't know what your geographic focus is, but I see that Enna is in Sicily, and there may be some issues that are specific to local history and practice. For example, older people may not have spent much of their lives having to worry about traffic lights, so may not pay much attention to them. I'm just speculating, of course.
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