Safety-First in Ryde

Use of personal mobility devices for first-and-last mile travel: The Macquarie- Ryde trial

Electric-motored personal mobility devices (PMDs) are appearing on Australian roads. While legal to import and own, their use is typically illegal for adult riders within the road transport system. However, these devices could provide an answer to traffic congestion by getting people out of cars for short trips (“first-and-last mile” travel). City of Ryde council, Macquarie University, and Tran...

Safety First and Ambiguity

There is considerable empirical evidence suggesting that ambiguity (i.e., parameter risk) impacts pricing decisions by actuaries and underwriters and their desire to provide coverage. Stone proposed a safety first model of choice that provides a possible explanation for this behavior. This paper analyzes Stone's proposed stability and survival constraints and compares the results with those pre...

Safety First Consumption

A b s t r a c t

Donor screening: first step in safety.

Safety First: Strategic Navigation in Adversarial Environments

This work deals with the problem of navigation while avoiding detection by a mobile adversary, which is a novel variant of pursuit-evasion featuring adversarial modeling. In this problem, an evading agent is placed on a graph, where one or more nodes are defined as safehouses. The agent’s goal is to find a path from its current location to a safehouse, while minimizing the probability of meetin...