Study on Intersections with Median BRT Stations: Focused on Pedestrian Street-Crossing Characteristics*

Median busways have caused many pedestrian crossing problems, especially when the bus station is placed beside an intersection. The Lishan Road station, which is set beside an intersection, is ad opted as the case study for the analysis of pedestrian crossing characteristics. Th e pedestrian crossing characteristics found near the Lishan Road station are different from the characteristics seen at intersections without a bus way in a number of ways. There is a larger pedestrian volume, the pedestrian arriv al rate on the road sides obey the Negative Binomial Distribution, the passenger arriv al rate in the middle of the road, influenced by the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) operation, is impulsive and its cycle and peak value are not stable, the walking sp eed of pedestrians can be modeled by a normal distribution, and the walking s peed on the crosswalk proximal to the BRT station is 7% higher than that of the distal. Since the setting up of BRT stations, the pedestrians’ violation time s has increased by 10-15%. The main reasons for this increase include the increase of pedestrian volume and the pedestrian desire to catch a bus causes the pedestr ian to disregard any danger. The pedestrian crossing characteristics analysis in thi s paper can serve as a reference for signal-timing, policy making and the setting up of management facilities.