Structural improvements at the vehicle front are state of the art in the field of pedestrian safety today. But due to raising requirements further measures will be needed. The active bonnet for example is the first deployable system that has entered the market. Other passive safety systems, like the windscreen airbag, are part of current research. This applies also to systems of active safety s...

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...

All pedestrian vehicle collision fatalities to children less than five years of age in Washington State were evaluated for a five-year period using State death certificates, coroners' reports, and police records. Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatali...

BACKGROUND Pedestrian injury frequently results in devastating and costly injuries and accounts for 11% of all road user fatalities. In the United States in 2006 there were 4,784 fatalities and 61,000 injuries from pedestrian injury, and in 2007 there were 4,654 fatalities and 70,000 injuries. In Canada, injury is the leading cause of death for those under 45 years of age and the fourth most co...

This paper introduces active pedestrian protection system (APPS) project, which was fulfilled during last three years (Nov. 2006 – Oct. 2009) and supported by ministry of knowledge economy (MKE) of Korean government, and then summarizes its achievements. To reduce the number and severity of vehicle-pedestrian accident by active safety vehicle (ASV), false alarm rate should be minimized. For thi...

this research paper lays stress on philosophies of human desire. all the human being has some psychical need in addition to physical needs. and to satisfy the psychical needs, there is a need for stimulants, more in case of exclusive pedestrian precincts. having exclusively pedestrian precincts/cores in city design draws its inspiration from the fact that public zones, accessible to majority of...

Background: Distracted walking is a major cause of pedestrian fatalities. Along with the expansion and popularity of mobile phones, their impacts on pedestrian safety, especially when crossing urban intersections have attracted a lot of attention. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of mobile-phone use on pedestrians’ crossing behavior when passing signalized intersections. Ma...

This paper describes a study undertaken to improve road safety through a fundamentally different approach. The study draws on Sweden’s Vision Zero road safety philosophy, the foundation of which is that it is ethically unacceptable to trade lives and health for other benefits in society. The research’s main purpose was to develop a model to identify the research needs and priorities required to...

The Empirical Bayesian (EB) Method, currently the industry standard for before-andafter collision analysis, was used to perform tests on the efficacy of high-visibility school (yellow, continental-style) crosswalks in the City of San Francisco. Statistical analysis compared the number of collisions predicted for the after period had the enhanced crosswalks not been installed to the number of co...