PEDESTRIANS CHARACTERISTICS AT TRAFFIC LIGHT SIGNAL INTERSECTION IN IPOH

Pedestrian crossing is one of the greatest challenges for the traffic and safety engineering
communities. Lack of facilities for pedestrian caused fatal accidents involving
pedestrians especially at intersections where there is high volume of vehicles. Many
major roads in Malaysia are ignoring the facilities for pedestrian to cross the road.
Therefore, many pedestrians risk their live to cross the roads even though they knew the
danger and risk they have to take. Concerning pedestrian fatality at intersection,
nowadays a lot of facilities for pedestrians have been provided in order to increase the
safety of pedestrian at signalized intersection. These include the pedestrian crossing lane,
traffic system for pedestrians and provided safe place for pedestrian to cross the road. By
adding facilities at traffic light signal, the delays for vehicle will be higher and this can
caused heavy congestion. On the other hand, if the delays time for pedestrian is high, the
possibility of non-compliance pedestrian will increase.
This project studied the characteristic of the pedestrians in term of delays and compliancy
at two selected signalized intersections. Traffic survey was conducted to study the
performance of the traffic signal with the existence of pedestrian facilities at the two
intersections selected. Two types of traffic signal for pedestrians were used namely pushbutton
system which located at Jalan Sultan Yusuf and fixed-time system which located
at Jalan Dato Onn Jaafar- Jalan Sultan Idris Shah. The performance of the road as well
as performance of pedestrian crossing was analyzed using SIDRA software. Finally,
recommendations on how to improve the intersection were proposed.
The average walking speed for pedestrian is 1. 6 m/s for free-flow walking. The average
walking speed is 1.28 m/s and 1.56 m/s for both traffic systems. It can be concluded that
the average walking speed at the intersections is quite normal. Non-compliance
pedestrians at the intersection are quite low at both sites. For Jalan Sultan Yusuf, the LOS
for pedestrian is B while for vehicle is D. For Jalan Dato Onn Jaafar- Jalan Sultan Yusuf
the LOS for pedestrian and vehicle is B and D, respectively.