Improvements for pedestrian safety application P-Minder

Pedestrian Safety Issues for Victoria

Integrated Pedestrian Safety Assessment Procedure

Structural improvements at the vehicle front are state of the art in the field of pedestrian safety today and offer a basic passive protection. Meanwhile advanced safety systems have entered the market. Deployable systems, like the active bonnet or the windscreen airbag, further enhance the passive protection of passenger vehicles while systems of active safety such as autonomous emergency brak...

Racial Differences and Pedestrian Safety

In the 1990s, federal legislation was passed requiring transportation planning to incorporate the interests of all stakeholder groups. One urban transportation mode that is often ignored is pedestrian movement. A group particularly susceptible to difficulties in this mode is the elderly. This study surveys the attitudes of senior citizens in regard to pedestrian safety and motorist interactions...

Pedestrian Safety and Transit Corridors

This research examines the relationship between pedestrian accident locations on state-owned facilities (highways and urban arterials) and the presence of riders loading and alighting from bus transit. Many state facilities are important metropolitan transit corridors with large numbers of bus stops users, resulting in increased exposure of pedestrians to traffic and in increased numbers of col...

SANA: Safety-Aware Navigation Application for Pedestrian Protection in Vehicular Networks

This paper proposes a Safety-Aware Navigation Application (SANA) for pedestrian protection in vehicular networks. Because the distracted walking by the smartphone usage in a street or crossroad usually causes road accidents and casualties, it is necessary to design an energyefficient safety service for a smartphone to warn a pedestrian of possible danger. SANA provides smartphone users with suc...