Contemporary digital maps provide an option for pedestrian navigation, but they do not account for subjective preferences in the calculation of the shortest path, which is usually provided in terms of absolute distance. For this purpose, we performed a controlled experiment with local pedestrians, who were asked to navigate from point A to point B in a fast manner. The pedestrians’ routes were ...

We present a pattern-based approach for simulating the steering behavior of pedestrians, which aims to imitate the way that real pedestrians perceive spatial-temporal information and make steering decisions in daily-life situations. Novel representations of spatial-temporal patterns are proposed that allow modelers to intuitively and naturally specify some prototypical patterns for various stee...

Collisions between vehicles and pedestrians continue to occur at a high rate each year, resulting in several thousand pedestrian injuries and deaths in the United States alone. In addition to the natural environmental factors (i.e. precipitation, lighting, temperature, etc.), factors related to the infrastructure in which pedestrians walk impact the safety performance of a given roadway segment...

This paper proposes a new load model to predict the lateral force exerted by pedestrians walking on lively footbridges. The aim of the model is to take into account some important features of the synchronous lateral excitation phenomenon, which so far has not been fully understood or modelled, e.g. the distinction between synchronization among pedestrians, due to crowd density, and between the ...

This contribution provides a microscopic experimental study of pedestrian motion in front of the bottleneck. Identification of individual pedestrians in conducted experiments enables to explain the high variance of travel time by heterogeneity of the crowd. Some pedestrians are able to push effectively through the crowd, some get trapped in the crowd for significantly longer time. This ability ...

Although there have been many reports on injuries to occupants of cars in road traffic accidents, there have been few prospective studies of injuries to pedestrians in such accidents. For this reason a two year prospective study of pedestrians in road traffic accidents in the Oxford region was carried out. The incidence of death in pedestrians was significantly higher than in car occupants or m...

When the right-turn vehicles share the same phase with pedestrians on divided lanes at intersection, the stopped buses or mediumsize vehicles that closed to the right-turn vehicleswould block the viewof drivers and pedestrians from the far-side of crosswalk.This paper aims at analyzing the changes of lag/gap acceptance behavior with/without considering sight obstruction and the headway of follo...

The data on traffic accidents clearly points to "Black Spots" that continually cause a high rate of accidents. However, road safety research is still far from understanding why this particular place on a road is risky. The reason is the deficit of knowledge of how pedestrians and drivers interact when facing a potentially dangerous traffic situation, and in the lack of an integrated framework t...

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...

Pedestrians are often considered the most vulnerable group of road users. The aim of our study was to analyze the forensic aspects of pedestrian traffic fatalities in Rijeka region. We analyzed pedestrian fatalities in a 5-year period (2002-2006), which included 44 fatally injured pedestrians examined at the Rijeka Institute of Forensic Medicine. The male:female ratio was 1:1. The median age wa...