For the evaluation of pedestrian protection, the European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee Working Group 17 report is now commonly used. In the evaluation of head injuries, the report takes into account only the hood area of the vehicle. But recent pedestrian accident data has shown the injury source for head injury changing to the windshield and A-pillar from the hood. The head contact points...

This paper proposes a framework of a dynamic pedestrian model integrated with a strategic route choice model and multi-directional flow propagation. Despite a vast number of proposed pedestrian models especially in the last decade, very few of these considered both pedestrian’s route choice behavior and physical movement in a single integrated framework. In an open space, even after the discret...

The work presented in this paper is a continuation of previous research done by author on the development of computational techniques that allow the investigation of pedestrian movement behaviour in the built environment. Specifically, the work has been initiated by introducing a pedestrian modelling approach, which simulates pedestrian movement behaviour and generates circulation diagrams in t...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of community/environmental interventions undertaken as part of the Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP). SETTING Three communities (local government areas) in the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia. METHODS A quasiexperimental community intervention trial was undertaken over three years (1995-97). Three communities were assigned t...

Pedestrian safety is becoming a global concern and an understanding of the contributing factors to severe pedestrian crashes crucial. This study analyzed crash data for San Antonio, TX, over six-year period understand effects pedestrian–vehicle crash-related variables on injury severity based party at fault identify high-risk locations. Bivariate analysis logistic regression were used most sign...

One of the main challenges for transportation engineers is the consideration of pedestrian safety as the most vulnerable aspect of the transport system. In many countries around the world, a large number of accidents recorded by the police are composed of accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles, for example when pedestrians may be struck by passing vehicles when crossing the street. Carefu...

Mobile and outdoor environments have long been out of reach for speech engines due to the performance limitations that were associated with portable devices, and the difficulties of processing speech in high-noise areas. This paper outlines an architecture for attaining robust speech recognition rates in a mobile pedestrian indoor/outdoor navigation environment, through the use of a media fusio...

Mobile and outdoor environments have long been out of reach for speech engines due to the performance limitations that were associated with portable devices, and the difficulties of processing speech in high-noise areas. This paper outlines an architecture for increasing speech recognition rates in a mobile pedestrian indoor/outdoor navigation environment, through the use of a media fusion know...