Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the United Kingdom by local authorities with the intention of improving road safety. This training is often supplemented by in-class paper based worksheet activities which are seen to be less effective than practical training in that they focus on knowledge acqui...

Objective: The objective of the current study was to describe the burden of back-over collisions within the context of other child pedestrian collisions as identified through a pediatric emergency room injury surveillance database. Methods: Injury data for child pedestrian motor vehicle collisions from 1994 to 2003 were obtained from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Progra...

BACKGROUND Direct relationships between safety concerns and physical activity have been inconsistently patterned in the literature. To tease out these relationships, crime, pedestrian, and traffic safety were examined as moderators of built environment associations with physical activity. METHODS Exploratory analyses used two cross-sectional studies of 2068 adults ages 20-65 and 718 seniors a...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to use geographic information system (GIS) software to locate areas of high risk for child pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions in the city of Long Beach and to compare risk factors between midblock and intersection collisions. METHODS Children 0-14 years of age involved in a motor vehicle versus pedestrian collision that occurred on public roadways in ...

Global Technical Regulation No. 9 on Pedestrian Protection (GTR 9) was adopted in 2008 to encourage vehicle front‐end designs that mitigate the consequences of vehicle‐to‐pedestrian collisions. The objective of the current study was to compare the types and sources of real‐world pedestrian injuries with the parts of the vehicle that would be affected by the tests prescri...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether advocacy targeted at local politicians leads to action to reduce the risk of pedestrian injury in deprived areas. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING 239 electoral wards in 57 local authorities in England and Wales. PARTICIPANTS 617 elected local politicians. INTERVENTIONS Intervention group politicians were provided with tailored informati...

We consider a pedestrian tracking system where sensor nodes are placed only at specific points so that the monitoring region is divided into multiple smaller regions referred to as microcells. In the proposed pedestrian tracking system, sensor nodes composed of pairs of binary sensors can detect pedestrian arrival and departure events. In this paper, we focus on pedestrian tracking in microcell...

BACKGROUND The current political agenda aims to promote active environments and physical activity while commuting to work, but research on it has provided mixed results. This study examines whether the proximity of green space and people's residence in different travel-related urban zones contributes to commuting physical activity. METHODS Population-based cross-sectional health examination s...

right). Pedestrian accidents represent the second-largest source of traffic-related injuries and fatalities, after accidents involving car passengers. Children are especially at risk (see Figure 1). This problem’s magnitude has caught legislators’ attention. The EU, for example, is studying proposals for legislating maximum-tolerated impact coefficients for a vehicle hitting a child or adult pe...