About 54% of pedestrians killed on French roads are over 60 years old (ONISR, 2012), whereas this age group represents less than 24% of the French population (INSEE, 2013). Factors such as slowdown of decision-making, reduction of walking speed, and difficulty of adopting sufficient safety margins can explain that over-representation of older pedestrians in traffic accidents (e.g. Lobjois & Cav...

OBJECTIVE To document the prevalence and characteristics of the use of sun-protective items by Japanese pedestrians during the midday hours of summer weekends. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Observations were undertaken at 5 locales in central Tokyo on weekends between 11 am and 2 pm from August 7 through 22, 2010. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2338 Japanese pedestrians, from adolescents...

In games, entertainment, medical and architectural applications, the creation of populated virtual city environments has recently become widespread. In this paper we want to provide a technique that allows the simulation of up to 10,000 pedestrians walking in real-time. Simulation for such environments is difficult as a trade off needs to be found between realism and real-time simulation. This ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of knee injuries among vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. METHODS Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared. Inclusion criteria were furthermore Abbreviated Injury Scale knee 2-3 (AIS(knee)). Technical analysis assessed the type of collision, direction and speed as well...

INTRODUCTION Pedestrian behavior and adherence to road traffic regulation is vital in the prevention and control of road traffic accidents (RTA) especially on highways in Ghana. We assessed pedestrians' adherence to road crossing regulations on the George Walker Bush (N1) Highway in Accra. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study of pedestrians crossing the N1 highway from both sides of t...

Walking, as an important transportation mode, plays a large part in urban transportation systems. This mode is of great importance for planners and decision-makers because of its impact on environmental and health aspects of communities. However, this mode is so complex in nature that makes it difficult to study or model. On the other hand, chaos theory studies complex dynamical nonlinear syste...

The purpose of this research is to detect pedestrians in an outdoor scene by a multi-sensor with a 2-D laser rangefinder (LRF) and a pin-hole camera. Our project used LRF information to detect the environment of vehicles ahead and collect the highly risky candidate LRF points. The data collected would be transformed to image frame and then the region of interest (ROI) was decided in an image pl...

The assessment of the safety of road crossing facilities in urban scenarios can be supported by means of advanced computer-based simulations. Integrated models considering the vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and their interactions, still lack empirical evidences about the heterogeneous features of pedestrians, with particular reference to age-driven crossing behaviour. Elderly pedestrians are...