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Despite the international efforts to improve pedestrian safety in different regions of the world, pedestrian fatalities still account for around one-third of annual road traffic deaths. Residential areas are commonly characterized by high pedestrian flows, making pedestrian safety a highpriority public health issue. Different types of treatments such as ITS-based, road markings, and physical treatments have been implemented to improve pedestrian safety, however, their efficiency varies between different locations worldwide. Therefore, this study aims to compare different innovative crosswalk treatments and to investigate their impacts on driving behavior in residential areas using a driving simulator. In our study, we juxtapose five different types of treatments with the untreated control condition. The treatments included two ITS-based solutions [LED pavement lights (ITS\_LED) and Variable Message Sign (ITS\_VMS)]; two different road markings [yellow zigzag marking (Marking\_zigzag) and white road narrowing marking with the word SLOW written in the middle (Marking\_narrowing)] and a physical road narrowing treatment (Physical\_narrowing). Each of the tested conditions (control con

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Author

Qinaat Hussain; Wael K.M. Alhajyaseen; Mohamed Kharbeche; Mustafa Almallah

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)