A Fuzzy Logic Approach on Pedestrian Crossing Behaviour at Unsignalized Intersection

The pedestrian behaviours on roads affect their safety to a greater extent. Of many behaviours exhibited by pedestrians, crossing speeds, gender and gaps accepted and rejected to cross the road are of major concern. In this paper, the study is made on behaviour of pedestrians at unsignalized T intersection at Channasandra within the capital city of Karnataka, Bengaluru by generating a fuzzy model. The data were collected at the study location using a videographic survey for a duration of one hour during the peak hours and the above-mentioned behaviours were extracted and subjected to analysis. For modelling, gaps accepted and crossing speeds of pedestrians were given as inputs in MATLAB’s fuzzy logic toolbox by framing a set of rules, and after defuzzification the choice of pedestrians to cross the road will be obtained from the model.