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People living in urban areas are often exposed to heat and inundation caused by heavy rains. Therefore, pedestrian routing weather-related threats can be of value citizens. In this study, water accumulated on roads, sidewalks footpaths after rainfall snowmelt was used as a case adverse environmental conditions. Pedestrian implemented the web tool WayFinder group 56 participants tested Trondheim...

To deal with many pedestrian data, automatic data collection is needed. This paper describes how to automate the microscopic pedestrian flow data collection from video files. The study is restricted only to pedestrians without considering vehicular pedestrian interaction. Pedestrian tracking system consists of three sub-systems, which calculates the image processing, object tracking and traffic...

Mobile communication devices may be used for spreading multimedia data without support of an infrastructure. Such a scheme, where the data is carried by people walking around and relayed from device to device by means of short range radio, could potentially form a public content distribution system that spans vast urban areas. The transport mechanism is the flow of people and it can be studied ...

This paper presents an analysis of pedestrian traffic performance from an empirical study. Video footage from a university building corridor was used to quantify pedestrian behavior for inclusion in a pedestrian simulation model. A coordinate conversion technique that maps images in the footage onto a real-world coordinate system was used for data collection. Pedestrian characteristics such as ...

the present study intended to determine the priority areas for nature-based tourism in isfahan province, iran. considering the components in question, this study was applied-developmental in nature and its methodology was descriptive-survey based on a systematic analysis of the potentials utilization, potential assessment and identification of priority areas and their combination. to carry out ...

The present study intended to determine the priority areas for nature-based tourism in Isfahan province, Iran. Considering the components in question, this study was applied-developmental in nature and its methodology was descriptive-survey based on a systematic analysis of the potentials utilization, potential assessment and identification of priority areas and their combination. To carry out ...

In vehicular traffic planning it is a long standing problem how to assign demand such on the available model of a road network that an equilibrium with regard to travel time or generalized costs is realized. For pedestrian traffic this question can be asked as well. However, as the infrastructure of pedestrian dynamics is not a network (a graph), but two-dimensional, there is in principle an in...

The understanding of crowd behaviour in semi-confined spaces is an important part of the design of new pedestrian facilities, for major layout modifications to existing areas and for the daily management of sites subject to crowd traffic. Conventional manual measurement techniques are not suitable for comprehensive data collection of patterns of site occupation and movement. Real-time monitorin...

usually staggered to separate the two crossings as shown in Figure 2. Staggered crossings are designed to force pedestrians to face the upcoming traffic and to avoid the confusion that pedestrians may see the further pedestrian signal indication when they are supposed to follow the first-stage signal. Staggered crossings are implemented widely in the United Kingdom and Japan and are recommended...