In the 1990s, federal legislation was passed requiring transportation planning to incorporate the interests of all stakeholder groups. One urban transportation mode that is often ignored is pedestrian movement. A group particularly susceptible to difficulties in this mode is the elderly. This study surveys the attitudes of senior citizens in regard to pedestrian safety and motorist interactions...

ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2001 A GOOD DEAL OF EVIDENCE suggests that driver inattention is a major cause of motor-vehicle crashes. When drivers do not attend to critical features of the driving environment, they cannot respond in a timely manner to threats. One way to alert drivers to the presence of potential threats is the use of flashing yellow warning beacons. However, this type of signal does not...

• Detection-based strategies significantly improved drivers yielding rates. LED and VMS conditions were helpful in reducing the vehicle-pedestrian conflicts. effective terms of drivers’ speed reduction. Do detection-based warning improve vehicle behavior at uncontrolled midblock crosswalks? Pedestrians being most vulnerable road users account for a large proportion injuries fatalities from traf...

Urban intersections are the most dangerous parts of a blind or visually impaired pedestrian's travel. A prerequisite for safely crossing an intersection is entering the crosswalk in the right direction and avoiding the danger of straying outside the crosswalk. This paper presents a proof of concept system that seeks to provide such alignment information. The system consists of a standard mobile...

Exposure to elevated particulate matter (PM) pollution is of great concern both the general public and air quality management agencies. At urban traffic intersections, for example, pedestrians are often at a higher risk exposure near-source PM from while waiting on roadside or walking in crosswalk. This study offers an in-depth investigation pedestrian intersection. Fixed-site measurements near...

The traditional way to evaluate pedestrian safety is a reactive approach using the data at an aggregate level. objective of this study develop real-time models for red-light running signal cycle level traffic data. Traffic 464 cycles during 16 h were collected eight crosswalks on two intersections in city Nanjing, China. Various developed based different combination explanatory variables Bayesi...

this research paper lays stress on philosophies of human desire. all the human being has some psychical need in addition to physical needs. and to satisfy the psychical needs, there is a need for stimulants, more in case of exclusive pedestrian precincts. having exclusively pedestrian precincts/cores in city design draws its inspiration from the fact that public zones, accessible to majority of...

Setting-specific outcome measures present a major barrier to monitoring patient progress across the continuum of care. This study demonstrated Rasch analysis for the creation of a crosswalk between the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), which is used in inpatient rehabilitation, and the Minimum Data Set (MDS), which is used in skilled nursing facilities. To create the crosswalk, we used dat...

Modeling the behavior of pedestrians is an important tool in analysis their and consequently ensuring safety pedestrian traffic. Children show specific traffic which related to cognitive development, parameters that affect are very different. The aim this paper develop a model children-pedestrian’s speed at signalized crosswalk. For same set data collected city Osijek—Croatia, two models were d...