no120-125

[120] A Study on the Pedestrian's Fear while the Situation of Pedestrian and Car Passing Each Other at Residential Street by Using VR Simulation

Haruka Uno¹, ○Rento Fujita², Seiji Hashimoto³, Takehito Ujihara³ (1. Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, 2. Okayama University, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, 3. Okayama University)

Keywords:fear, pedestrian, driving behavior, virtual reality, residential street, passing each other

The Eleventh Fundamental Traffic Safety Program ensures traffic safety by spreading the idea that “pedestrians should have priority at residential street” through our awareness. However, it does not specifically indicate what the driving behavior which give the priority to pedestrian is. In order to propose driving behavior that does not make pedestrian to feel fear, this study focused on the situation where pedestrian and car pass by each other, and it investigated what kind of behavior of the car gives the pedestrian a sense of fear. In consequence, it indicated that velocity and distance between pedestrian and car are strongly related to pedestrian’s fear. Furthermore, it focused on deceleration and velocity of the car when it passes by pedestrian and clarified the effect of deceleration behavior on pedestrian’s fear.