In road traffic collisions, pedestrian injuries and fatalities account for approximately 11% and 20% of casualties in the USA and the EU, respectively. In many less motorised countries, the majority of victims are pedestrians. The significant influences of vehicle speed, pedestrian speed and pedestrian gait on pedestrian post-impact kinematics have been qualitatively noted in the literature, bu...

Walking is an essential mode of transport. New and improved pedestrian facilities promote walking and provide greater access and mobility within our communities. The NZ Transport Agency has recently updated the procedures for the evaluation of pedestrian improvement projects. The benefit factor applying to new pedestrian trips was increased from $0.50 to $2.70/km, making pedestrian facility imp...

Quantifying the effects of crosswalk length and signal timing on pedestrian walking speed is an important requirement for providing a rational safety assessment and improving existing operational policies at signalized intersections. This study investigates the effects of pedestrian green time (PG), crosswalk length and pedestrian crossing direction on pedestrian walking speed at signalized cro...

Pedestrian detection is one of the most important research contents of road safety. The crucial idea behind such pedestrian safety systems is to protect the driver and pedestrian from any accident. In this paper, a pedestrian feature extraction based on applied log-Gabor filters is presented. The resulting filtered images show desirable segmentation performance which allows support vector machi...

Most studies of pedestrian injuries focus on reducing traumatic injuries due to the primary impact between the vehicle and the pedestrian. However, based on the Pedestrian Crash Data Study (PCDS), some researchers concluded that one of the leading causes of head injury for pedestrian crashes can be attributed to the secondary impact, defined as the impact of the pedestrian with the ground after...

There is now increasing emphasis on managing the urban transport for the benefit of all road users, particularly on the promotion of walking and cycling as more environmentally friendly modes of transport. Dynamic traffic signal controls in respond to pedestrian demand have been developed which give the flexibility and control to the network controllers to manage pedestrian and vehicle interact...

Pedestrian safety is a major concern due to the vulnerability of pedestrians versus other traffic, especially in urban environment. The fatalities and injuries suffered in pedestrian collisions often intensify the perceived severity of these accidents. The problem is particularly significant for transit bus operations because their operations encounter pedestrian traffic regularly in their rout...

BACKGROUND Motor vehicle collisions and pedestrian injuries in areas where schools are located are public health problems in Durban. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of traffic calming humps on the number and severity of incidences of collisions and injuries in the Chatsworth and KwaMashu residential areas of the eThekwini Municipality. METHODS The evaluation used an observational interrupt...

Pedestrian protection project is presently the key aim in the fields of traffic safety and vehicle passive safety, which is attached to great importance by numerous researchers at home and abroad. Based on PC-Crash program for simulation and reconstruction of road accident and in-line MADYMO program for multi-body system dynamics analysis, the kinematics law and characteristics of pedestrian in...