Caracterização de pedestres obedientes e oportunistas em travessias semaforizadas de Fortaleza.

Abstract

The increase on the motorization level in the developing nations has played an important role in the rise of the accident risk for the transportation system's most vulnerable users, like pedestrians. Hence, this paper has as objective, characterizing the obedience behavior of pedestrians in signalized crossings in Fortaleza. To undertake this analysis, it was adopted data collected from videos recorded by traffic monitoring cameras of the city. The crossings selected for this study were the ones with the highest flow of vehicles and pedestrians. Hypotheses were tested to better understand the studied phenomenon. To test these hypotheses, it was adopted tools such as the contingency table, the chi-square statistical test, descriptive analysis and the logit model. The results revealed that there is no correlation between the gender and the obedience behavior. However, the results exposed there is a trend of obedience among the elderly pedestrians.