Compulsory convenience? How large arterials and land use affect midblock crossing in Fushun, China

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Compulsory convenience? How large arterials and land use affect midblock crossing in Fushun, China

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2010

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Journal of Transport and Land Use

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This study focuses on how street design and land uses influence pedestrian behavior in a medium-sized Chinese city, Fushun. In cities throughout China, the change from workplace-managed and assigned housing to market housing has had profound effects on pedestrians. Coupled with motorization, pedestrian trips are increasingly external, pushed out of the protected space of the gated block and onto massive arterials that now carry automobiles, trucks, and buses in growing numbers. Long blocks, unenforced zebra crossings, and inadequate green time at traffic signals do not equitably accommodate those on foot; thus, pedestrians violate the system by crossing midblock. In Fushun, the long block lengths and large arterials, lack of enforcement, and unfavorable pedestrian policies creates an environment which incentivizes midblock crossing behavior.

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JTLU vol 3, no 3, pp 61-82 (2010)

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10.5198/jtlu.v3i3.110

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Tao, Wendy; Mehndiratta, Shomik; Deakin, Elizabeth. (2010). Compulsory convenience? How large arterials and land use affect midblock crossing in Fushun, China. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.5198/jtlu.v3i3.110.

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