PURPOSE Traffic injuries are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Pedestrians have been considered as a high-risk group among road users, especially in middle- or low-income communities. This study attempted to determine the burden of pedestrians' fatalities in Fars, the southern province of Iran using years of life lost (YLL) approach. METHODS The data used in this ...

Every year in the United States, more than 4500 pedestrians are killed and more than 75,000 pedestrians injured by motor vehicles. Worldwide, annually, one quarter of a million pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles. The vast majority of these deaths (70% or more) occur at night. Therefore, research into night-time pedestrian visibility is highly valuable. Wood and associates from Queensland ...

Here, we collect two parts of a research project on the pedestrian flow modeling. Rapid growth in the volume of public transport and the need for its reasonable, efficient planning have made the description and modeling of transport and pedestrian behaviors as important research topics in the past twenty years. First, we present a macroscopic model for the pedestrian flow based on continuum mec...

We present a discrete model extending the floor field approach allowing heterogeneity in the walking speed of the simulated population of pedestrians. Whereas some discrete models allow pedestrians to move more than a single cell per time step, in the present work we maintain a maximum speed of one cell per step but we model lower speeds by having pedestrians yielding their movement in some tur...

Autonomous vehicles are developing at a rapid pace while pedestrians’ experience with autonomous vehicles is less researched. This paper reported an exploratory study where 40 participants encountered a conditionally autonomous vehicle with unusual driver behaviors at crossing by watching videos and photos. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to investigate pedestrians’ expe...

Citation: Alberti CF, Peli E, Bowers AR. Driving with hemianopia: III. Detection of stationary and approaching pedestrians in a simulator. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;55:368– 374. DOI:10.1167/iovs.13-12737 PURPOSE. To compare blind-side detection performance of drivers with homonymous hemianopia (HH) for stationary and approaching pedestrians, initially appearing at small (48) or large (148...

In this paper, a fast and automated method of counting pedestrians in crowded areas is proposed along with three contributions. We firstly propose Local Empirical Templates (LET), which are able to outline the foregrounds, typically made by single pedestrians in a scene. LET are extracted by clustering foregrounds of single pedestrians with similar features in silhouettes. This process is done ...

It is dangerous for pedestrians to run when the traffic shows a red light, but in some cases the pedestrians are breaking the rules. This system will be a meaningful thing if the jaywalking behaviors of pedestrians in the road crossing through the monitoring cameras could be recognized. Then drivers can be informed of the situations in advance, and they can take some actions to avoid an acciden...

OBJECTIVE To assess pedestrians' perceptions of the walkability of the urban environment and pedestrian safety in Cali, Colombia. DESIGN Standardised intercept interviews were conducted of 400 pedestrians walking in 20 randomly selected urban zones to ascertain frequency of walking, and perceptions of safety, the built environment and security. Four focus group meetings were held with communi...