The Conflict Between Pedestrians and Right-turning Vehicles at Signal Intersections from the Psychological Level

Abstract

With the accelerating urbanization, the urban population growth, road construction by leaps and bounds, the rapid improvement of the road traffic participants formed a fierce contradiction, intersection pedestrians and right turn drivers often conflict, pose a threat to pedestrian traffic safety, also signal the overall operation efficiency and service level has an important influence. The traffic violations of pedestrians and drivers will inevitably be accompanied by a series of psychological activities, and they are dominated by their psychological activities. Therefore, from the perspective of traffic participants’ psychology, it is of great significance to solve the violations of pedestrians and right-turning vehicles from the root cause. Based on psychological theory, survey data, behavioral psychology, traffic psychology, safety psychology, social psychology, criminal psychology and other relevant knowledge, this paper adopts both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to analyze and study the traffic violations of pedestrians and right-turn vehicle drivers.