Collisions between vehicles and pedestrians continue to occur at a high rate each year, resulting in several thousand pedestrian injuries and deaths in the United States alone. In addition to the natural environmental factors (i.e. precipitation, lighting, temperature, etc.), factors related to the infrastructure in which pedestrians walk impact the safety performance of a given roadway segment...

Sixty percent to 70% of pedestrian injuries in children under the age of 10 years are the result of the child either improperly crossing intersections or dashing out in the street between intersections. The purpose of this injury prevention research study was to evaluate a desktop virtual reality (VR) program that was designed to educate and train children to safely cross intersections. Specifi...

PEDESTRIAN HEAD PROTECTION DURING CAR TO PEDESTRIANACCIDENTS: IN THE EVENT OF PRIMARY IMPACT WITH VEHICLEAND SECONDARY IMPACT WITH GROUNDbyVISHAL GUPTAMay 2014Advisor: Dr. King H. YangCo-advisor: Dr. Trilochan SinghMajor: Mechanical Engineering (Biomechanics)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyCurrent regulations for assessing pedestrian safety use a simplified t...

Every year nearly 1.5 million people are dying in traffic collisions around the world, due to unexpected behavior of pedestrians while crossing road. To address this problem an augmentation function for predicting crash risk active pedestrian is proposed. The has several functions like pre-crash scenario, vehicle trajectory, and trajectory. In a Pre-Crash movement such as entering road boundary...

Currently the use of new materials is becoming more prevalent in vehicle industry for the lightweight design purpose. The design of engine hood is very important for pedestrian safety during a vehicle-pedestrian accident. In order to improve the pedestrian protection performance of the new material engine hood, the radial stiffening rib structure and trapezium sandwich structure engine hoods we...

In recent times, it has been discovered that fuzzy logic is an important tool for effective traffic control system. Research on intelligent traffic systems has revealed that the implementation of linguistic variables in fuzzy systems help in taking care of diverse possible decisions that can be taken by humans in traffic control. However, the majority of these works focus on vehicular traffic w...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between the perceived safety of specified road behaviors, self-described road behaviors, and pedestrian injury among adolescent students in Kathmandu, Nepal. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1557 adolescents in grades 6-8 across 14 schools in Kathmandu using a self-administered questionnaire in 2003. A multiple logistic regression analy...

OBJECTIVES Young children, children from lower socioeconomic status and boys have the highest risk of pedestrian injury. This study examined the relationship between cognition and specific pedestrian skills of these groups of children in Iran. METHODS 180 Iranian children aged 7 and 11 years from lower- and higher-socioeconomic status backgrounds participated in the study. A task to identify ...