Yaya karşıdan karşıya geçiş davranışını anlamak

While cities tend to grow in terms of both land and population, millions of people from different backgrounds, social classes, and demographics living in a complex system like a city, requires some regularization. Car-centered planning approach is not sustainable anymore considering ever-growing city populations, motor-vehicle-use related environmental, and health issues such as air pollution, climate change, urban traffic congestions, and the obesity epidemic. The primary aim of this research is to understand the underlying mechanism for the jaywalking behavior and the shortcomings of the current pedestrian signaling in terms of safety, efficiency, and practicality; and to suggest a new way of organizing pedestrian traffic more efficiently and safely. To answer my research questions, observational data on pedestrian behavior at signalized intersections with pedestrian signal phases were required along with descriptive characteristics of pedestrian, intersection, signalization, and other environmental elements. Primary and secondary data is collected for the research. The thesis research is conducted at two signalized intersections, Beşiktaş Square and Fatih Malta, in Istanbul. The pedestrian violation rate is found 32.9%. Resulting statistical models suggest the importance of the number of approaching vehicles, the number of people crossing, time of the day that crossing has happened, and signalization cycle length on the jaywalking behavior.