Improvement of Pedestrian Crossing Safety on Urban Roads

摘要

There is a big number of pedestrians on Chinese urban roads. A specific study on pedestrian crossing is therefore significant in ensuring pedestrian safety and convenience. This article analyzed that the increase in pedestrian traffic accidents resulted from the pedestrian violation of traffic rules and the poor crossing facilities. Based on the improvement of pedestrian crossing facilities, the article gave some important proposals, such as building marked crosswalks, median barriers, pedestrian refuge islands, pedestrian traffic signals, overpasses and underpasses, to improve pedestrian safety. The three forms of pedestrian refuge islands were emphasized and illustrated further. At last, some suggestions to the related work which was likely to be done in China were given.