Simulation of Pedestrians Crossing a Street

TL;DR

This paper uses VISSIM simulation to analyze pedestrian crossing behavior and travel times under varying vehicle and pedestrian demands, highlighting non-linear effects at high vehicle demand levels.

Contribution

It demonstrates the application of VISSIM's conflict area functionality to simulate pedestrian crossings without empirical calibration data.

Findings

Travel time dependence on demand is non-monotonic at high vehicle demand.

Simulation results provide insights into pedestrian-vehicle interaction dynamics.

VISSIM effectively models pedestrian crossing scenarios for traffic analysis.

Abstract

The simulation of vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian dynamics meanwhile both have a decades long history. The success of this conference series, PED and others show that the interest in these topics is still strongly increasing. This contribution deals with a combination of both systems: pedestrians crossing a street. In a VISSIM simulation for varying demand jam sizes of vehicles as well as pedestrians and the travel times of the pedestrians are measured and compared. The study is considered as a study of VISSIM's con ict area functionality as such, as there is no empirical data available to use for calibration issues. Above a vehicle demand threshold the results show a non-monotonic dependence of pedestrians' travel time on pedestrian demand.