Pedestrians’ Crossing Dilemma during the First Seconds of the Red-Light Phase

Most safety concerns for pedestrian trips arise during road crossing, due to the interaction of pedestrians with motorized vehicles. This present paper attempts explore factors that have significant impact on pedestrians’ crossing behavior, and identify group appear be most prone a first five seconds red phase. In this context, observations were conducted in twelve signalized crossings one-way roads, city Thessaloniki, Greece. The collected data (600 pedestrians) analyzed statistically; more specifically, through descriptive statistics, classification tree was developed predicting decisions. results indicate behavior is all affected by other crossing. Also, number traffic lanes has an decision cross red-light