Investigating the driver's behaviour at zebra crossings and their vicinity

This report is based on field surveys and data analyses about pedestrian safety. The key topics are; accident and risk developments for pedestrians, motorists' behavioural aspects at zebra crossings, particularly their obligation to give way and also speed choice at the vicinity of zebra crossing, as well as safety effect for pedestrians of zebra crossing design. Altogether, the main task considering pedestrian safety is to lower the casualty rate for crossing pedestrians. Most of the pedestrian accidents occur in urban areas. Elderly pedestrians, drunk pedestrians and pedestrians in darkness are also important target groups in treatments against fatal accidents. Thus this is highly needed to introduce new modern standards in pedestrian crossing design in order to lower speeds and improve driver's visibility at the vicinity of pedestrian crossings. For the covering abstract see ITRD E137489.