APPLIED GIS SOFTWARE FOR IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN amp;BICYCLE SAFETY

Investigating and improving pedestrian safety in an urban environment

BACKGROUND Prompted by a series of fatal and nonfatal pedestrian-vehicle collisions, university leadership from one urban institution collaborated with its academic injury research center to investigate traffic-related hazards facing pedestrians. METHODS This descriptive epidemiologic study used multiple data collection strategies to determine the burden of pedestrian injury in the target are...

Pedestrian Safety Issues for Victoria

A Strategy for Improving Safety Related Software Engineering Standards

There are many standards which are relevant for building safety or mission critical software systems. An effective standard is one that should help developers, assessors, and users of such systems. For developers the standard should help them build the system cost-effectively, and it should be clear what is required in order to conform to the standard. For assessors it should be possible to det...

A GIS data model for landmark-based pedestrian navigation

Landmarks provide the most predominant navigation cue for pedestrian navigation. Very few navigation data models in the geographical information science and transportation communities support modeling of landmarks and use of landmark-based route instructions for pedestrian navigation services. This article proposes a landmark-based pedestrian navigation data model to fill this gap. This data mo...

A Software Environment for Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation

The growth of both research on and the relevance of pedestrian simulation in the definition of strategies for urban planning increasingly reinforce its adoption and ultimate utility among practitioners and engineers. This paper reports on first steps and preliminarily results of the implementation of a platform for pedestrian simulation in multimodal exchange interfaces. Whereas most approaches...