This chapter is an empirical study and statistical analysis of pedestrian movement in London's railway terminus areas. The main question is how the terminus structures as well as their local urban grid structures differently influence pedestrian movement around the station buildings. Its main objective is to examine the effect of urban spatial configuration on movement (the natural movement) in...

Introduction Crash Data, Maine Observed Number of Pedestrian Crashes versus Expected Numbers Survey Overall Conclusions and discussion References 1 1 2

For the spatial design of buildings as well as for the layout of large event areas, the 9 crowd behaviour of the future users plays a significant role. The designing engineer has to make 10 sure that potentially critical situations, such as high densities in pedestrian crowds, are avoided in 11 order to guarantee the integrity, safety and comfort of the users. To this end, computational 12 pede...

Interactions between pedestrians and robots are becoming more commonplace. In public areas, for example, robots may be used for information dissemination, security, or patrol tasks. Based upon existing literature in the field of human-robot interaction, the ISAPT simulation system was revised to model pedestrian behavior in the presence of an autonomous robot. Using an agent based modeling appr...

The modelling of pedestrian behaviour in a real-world environment is a complex problem, mainly due to the unpredictable nature of human decision making. Agent-oriented simulation moves away from traditional all-knowing and "controlling" simulations and towards reality, where pedestrians exhibit different behaviours depending on their knowledge of the environment and other personal characteristi...

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 ...

OBJECTIVES In urban settings, pedestrian fatalities and injuries are concentrated on major roads. This study aims to describe urban intersections with major roads (arterials and collector roads) and explore the association between intersection characteristics and injured pedestrians. METHODS From a stratified random sampling in Montréal, Quebec, 512 intersections were selected and their chara...

OBJECTIVE To compare rates of motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities among different race/ethnic groups in urban and rural Arizona. METHOD Using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the National Center for Health Statistics Multiple Cause of Death file, MVC fatalities in Arizona from 1990-96 inclusive were classified by gender, race/ethnicity, and urban or rural residence. Age adjusted ra...

Pedestrian volume information is critical to study traffic safety as well as to plan for pedestrian friendly design. We present a model used to estimate the pedestrian volumes for street intersections in the city of San Francisco, California. Through regression analysis at multiple geographical scales, a set of socioeconomic variables and built-environment characteristics were examined. Three f...

Understanding the etiology of pediatric pedestrianmotor vehicle injuries requires a complete understanding of the distribution of these injuries by severity, body region, and age. A review is presented of injuries to all pediatric pedestrian crash victims that survived to presentation to a pediatric level one trauma center (Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA). The data is...