Future vehicle systems for active pedestrian safety will not only require a high recognition performance, but also an accurate analysis of the developing traffic situation. In this paper, we present a system for pedestrian action classification (walking vs. stopping) and path prediction at short, sub-second time intervals. Apart from the use of positional cues, obtained by a pedestrian detector...

Service capability and matching degree of transfer facilities are directly related to the operational efficiency and safety of a subway station. Owing to differences in planning and construction, the transfer subway stations in developing countries have some defects in facility size and serviceability, which cause a decline in service performance, operation efficiency, and security level. In or...

OBJECTIVE Thousands of American children are injured or killed each year as pedestrians, but behavioral factors in pedestrian injury etiology remain poorly understood. We examined the roles of children's individual differences (age, gender, and inhibitory control) and parental supervision in children's pedestrian behaviors. METHODS Using the pretend road method, a sample of 85 children and 26...

I n New Zealand, as well as many other countries, unsignalized, marked pedestrian crossings are known as zebra crossings. Last year, the New Zealand National Roads Board (NRB) published a technical recommendation (TR1l ) that sets out standards for the installation and upgrading of zebra crossings.’ The report also includes statutory requirements and recommendations on warrants, location criter...

In this thesis, a novel Pedestrian Protection System (PPS), composed of the Pedestrian Detection System (PDS) and the Pedestrian Tracking System (PTS), was proposed. The PPS is a supplementary application for the Advanced Driver Assistance System, which is used to avoid collisions between vehicles and pedestrians. The Pedestrian Detection System (PDS) is used to detect pedestrians from near to ...

In order to analyse traffic injury reporting in Ghanaian newspapers and identify opportunities for improving road safety, the content of 240 articles on road traffic injury was reviewed from 2005 to 2006 editions of two state-owned and two privately owned newspapers. The articles comprised reports on vehicle crashes (37%), commentaries (33%), informational pieces (12%), reports on pedestrian in...

Infrared (IR)-based human detection research has received much attention within the research community in recent years. Recently, for industrial applications, infrared (IR) sensors have been applied to human detection in vehicle safety, night-vision, and military applications. They directly detect targets with warm temperatures in the image, providing a potentially simpler and quicker solution ...