While older pedestrian crashes are relatively few in number, their rates are significant per head of population. Moreover, with expected increases in the proportion and mobility of older people in the years ahead, the problem will only get worse without active intervention. This review aimed to identify issues of relevance to the safety of older pedestrians and prioritise research and counterme...

This paper presents the calibration of a pedestrian simulation model for simulating pedestrian movements at a selected signalized crosswalk in Hong Kong. This model is able to estimate the variations of walking speed particularly under conditions with bi-directional pedestrian flows. A simulation software package, Service Model, was adopted to develop the pedestrian simulation model for the sel...

1 Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan 2 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan 3 Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation Model is computer simulation model of pedestrian movement where every pedestrian in the model is treated as individ...

Road traffic injuries and fatalities are increasing in Ghana. Police-collected crash and injury data for the period 1994-1998 were aggregated and analyzed using the MAAP5 accident analysis package developed by the Transport Research Laboratory, U.K. Published results of recent transport-related epidemiological and other surveys provided an additional data source. According to the 1994-1998 poli...

Accurately determining pedestrian location in indoor environments using consumer smartphones is a significant step in the development of ubiquitous localization services. Many different map-matching methods have been combined with pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) to achieve low-cost and bias-free pedestrian tracking. However, this works only in areas with dense map constraints and the error accu...

ITE JOURNAL / AUGUST 1999 PEDESTRIAN ZONES HAVE become a familiar feature in the central areas of European cities. Private cars are always excluded from these zones, while delivery vehicles are permitted during off-peak hours. Bicycles and taxis are typically relegated to a circumferential service road. Some have argued that such rigid traffic separation contributes to economic and environmenta...

We propose a decision-aiding evaluation procedure (i) for classifying road crossings based on their impact on walkability and, subsequently, (ii) for prioritising street improvements, in urban-rural fringe areas. In the peripheral urban-rural fringes, pedestrian mobility is usually less developed and people generally depend more on cars for their everyday chores. Partly this is inevitable given...

Object detection and classification is challenging problem for vision-based intersection monitoring since traditional motion-based techniques work poorly when pedestrians or vehicles stop due to traffic signals. In this work, we present a method for vehicle and pedestrian recognition at intersections that benefits from both motion and appearance cues in video surveillance. Vehicle and pedestria...

In recent years, there has been a frequent occurrence of extremely cold conditions which has had a serious impact on the life of residents of buildings in various locations around the world. However, there have only been a very limited number of studies on the effects of residential area building layout on the winter wind environments, which led to a lack of quantitative guidance for residentia...