This study intends to provide insight into pedestrian accidents by uncovering their patterns in order to design preventive measures and to allocate resources for identified problems. Kohonen neural networks are applied to a database of pedestrian fatal accidents occurred during the four-year period between 2003 and 2006. Results show the existence of five pedestrian accident patterns: (i) elder...

A well-established technique for studying pedestrian safety is based on reducing data from video-based in-situ observation. The extraction and cataloging from recorded video of pedestrian crossing events has largely been achieved manually. Although the manual methods are generally reliable, they are extremely time-consuming. As a result, more detailed, encompassing site studies are not practica...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether area wide traffic calming distribution reflects known inequalities in child pedestrian injury rates. To determine whether traffic calming is associated with changes in childhood pedestrian injury rates. DESIGN Small area ecological study, longitudinal analysis of injury rates with cross sectional analysis of traffic calming and method of travel to school. SET...

It is generally accepted that having a proper river crossing point has positive effect on rural inhabitants. Such points would increase the ability of communities to access their social services, markets, jobs, and thereby lead raising standard living. In line with this objective,Rwanda been promoting construction pedestrian footbridges in areas, different partners, have already constructed. ve...

Walking, as an important transportation mode, plays a large part in urban transportation systems. This mode is of great importance for planners and decision-makers because of its impact on environmental and health aspects of communities. However, this mode is so complex in nature that makes it difficult to study or model. On the other hand, chaos theory studies complex dynamical nonlinear syste...

a pedestrian is every person who is walking, especially along or the width of a street or other place used by cars. growth, development and industrialization of societies, threatens the safety of pedestrians. increase and acceleration of vehicles and traffic, lack of road and street standards, weakness of laws or inappropriate executive guarantees, causing to insecurity and incidence of physica...