To cross or not to cross? Review and meta-analysis of pedestrian gap acceptance decisions at midblock street crossings

•The paper explores pedestrian gap acceptance decisions in urban midblock locations.•Meta-analyses are used to investigate the overall effect of critical variables.•A unit increase in vehicle speed decreases pedestrians' odds of crossing by 10%.•A unit increase in temporal gap size increases the odds of crossing by 7.2 times.•Each crossing attempt increases the odds of crossing more than 16 times.