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Pedestrians as Traffic Entities in ITS Environment

The growing trend in traffic and transport and in the demand for traffic is accompanied by an increase in the number of entities (the transported and the traffic ones) in the traffic system. According to a generalized model of a traffic system, the pedestrians represent a separate category of traffic entities, whereas according to the valid Law on Road Traffic Safety a pedestrian is a person participating in traffic, not driving, nor riding in a vehicle or on a vehicle, using one’s own power to push or pull a hand cart, a horse-drawn vehicle or a motor vehicle, children’s transport means, a bicycle or a transport means using personal or motor power for the disabled persons or the senior persons, if this means moving at the speed of human walking, and persons using skates, skis or sledges, or roller-skates, skateboard, and similar. In order to explain better the function of pedestrians as traffic entities, the new classification of pedestrians should be defined, and the senior persons and the disabled should be identified separately as critical subgroups of pedestrians – traffic participants. This classification of pedestrians will represent the basis for the future studies and analyses, and the development, design and implementation of ITS applications that should enable simple and efficient flow of traffic of the mentioned traffic entities.

pedestrian; traffic entity; disabled persons; ITS applications; traffic management

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