Document Type : Research Paper
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This article intends to determine the influence of traffic policeman presence on the compliance of pedestrians to pedestrian light. The subjects those pedestrians who were crossing the Enqelab Ave. from south-west side of Enqelab Sq. from 10 to 12 a.m. Twenty red lights (ten lights in presence of traffic policeman, and ten lights in absence of him) were considered in two-hour intervals. Research method was obervation in real conditions. Regarding the meaningfulness of the difference among the ratioes, the numerical rates of the pedestrians in two afore-mentioned conditions were calculated. The difference was meaningful in P < 0.01, concluding that the compliance of pedestrians to pedestrian lights is affected by the presence of the traffic policeman in crossings.
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