Research Article

A Coordinated Allocation Method for Right-Turn Strategy at Signalized Intersections with Optimal Pedestrian and Vehicle Delays

Table 2

Notations and parameters.

NotationsMeaningUnit

Index of intersection arms (approaches) or corners, as shown in Figure 1,
The length of the crosswalk at arm m
The binary variable represents whether scheme 2 has been adopted,
The binary variable represents whether scheme 3 has been adopted,
The effective green time of pedestrian signals at the approach s
The green time corresponding to the phase of the phase sequence is shown in Table 1
The cycle lengths
The minimum and the maximum length of cycle times
The minimum and the maximum length of showing the green time of vehicular signal under the phase s
All-red intervals
The duration of yellow lights
The probability of a right-turn vehicle yielding to pedestrians
The pedestrian clearance time at the crosswalk of the arm s
The average speed of pedestrians crossingm/s
The average speed of right-turn vehicles through intersectionskm/h
The width of the right-turn lane at the arm m
The width of the crosswalk at the approach m
The vehicular signal delay at the approach s
The pedestrian signal delay from the corner to corner s
The vehicular conflict delay at the approach s
The pedestrian conflict delay from the corner to corner s
Average vehicle delay for all directions at intersections under the scheme s
Average pedestrian delay for all crosswalks at intersections under the scenario s