PEDESTRIAN SAFETY: A NEW METHOD TO ASSESS PEDESTRIAN KINEMATICS

Validity of instruments to assess students' travel and pedestrian safety

BACKGROUND Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are designed to make walking and bicycling to school safe and accessible for children. Despite their growing popularity, few validated measures exist for assessing important outcomes such as type of student transport or pedestrian safety behaviors. This research validated the SRTS school travel survey and a pedestrian safety behavior checklist. ...

Method to Assess the Effectiveness of Active Pedestrian Protection Safety Systems

The effectiveness analysis assesses the benefit of future safety systems in terms of collision mitigation or collision avoidance based on real life accident data. The safety systems are evaluated by case-by-case analyses based on in-depth accident data (e.g. GIDAS). For this purpose an innovative simulation environment was developed that recreates the technical specification of the proposed sys...

Comparison of pedestrian safety in old and new neighborhoods (A case study of Qazvin)

Sense of security is one of the basic human needs and the most influential social components of urban life. Perhaps it can be the most important factor in promoting or hindering walking in cities. In other words, if the neighborhoods of a city have a good level of security, the presents of pedestrians can be seen in local streets even in the late night hours. In this regard and to the answer to...

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...

Pedestrian Safety Issues for Victoria