In this study, the author made efforts to build a multi-agent based system to simulate the pedestrian crowd’s behaviour utilizing GIS data. Taking the fireworks display at Tsim Tsua Tsui of Hong as the sample case, the event was catalogued into different scenarios, arrival and dispersal. Since individual motion is significant to the simulation, different sets of rules were designed for each age...

Exposures to air pollutants may offset a portion of the health benefits of walking and bicycling in cities. However, taking a detour just a block or two away from the busiest streets and roads “can make a big difference in your exposure,” says Steve Hankey, an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and coauthor of a new study in EHP. For every street block in...

In this paper we will present the objectives of a Network Robot System project denominated URUS, a European IST-STREP project of the FP6 program. The general objective of the project is the development of new ways of cooperation between network robots and human beings and/or the environment in urban areas. The focus of the project is in urban pedestrian areas, an important topic in Europe where...

BACKGROUND Prompted by a series of fatal and nonfatal pedestrian-vehicle collisions, university leadership from one urban institution collaborated with its academic injury research center to investigate traffic-related hazards facing pedestrians. METHODS This descriptive epidemiologic study used multiple data collection strategies to determine the burden of pedestrian injury in the target are...