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Applied Sciences, 2023 Pedestrian deaths account for the highest percentage of fatality caused by traffic accidents in Japan. Increasing pedestrian safety is a key objective for reducing such deaths.
Yasuhiro Matsui, Shoko Oikawa
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Safety on pedestrian crossing [PDF]
Injury Prevention, 2010 Major road traffic accident victim category on Sri Lankan roads is pedestrians. There are many reasons for high pedestrian casualties. Pedestrian behaviour, pedestrian facilities, law enforcement and driver behaviour are some of those. The attached photograph is a good example on all effect of all the above factors on pedestrians safety.
A G Hemasiri, J Edirisinghe
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A broadcast scheme for vehicle-to-pedestrian safety message dissemination
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2017 Ensuring cooperative awareness by periodic message beaconing in vehicular environments is necessary to address pedestrian safety. However, high periodic basic safety message broadcasting in dense vehicular environments makes accessing the communication ...
Odongo Steven Eyobu +2 more
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Self-reported pedestrian knowledge of safety by school children in cape coast metropolis, Ghana
Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2020 The incidence of a pedestrian crash is a leading cause of death among Ghanaian schoolchildren due to various factors including the lack of pedestrian walkways and zebra crossings.
Anthony Elorm Setorwofia +4 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 Based on data from 2015 [1], it was found that 31% of all fatalities in road accidents in Poland were pedestrians. In places accessible to pedestrian traffic 74.2% of total accidents involving pedestrians were recorded.
Mackun Tomasz, Ryś Artur, Tomczuk Piotr
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A Dynamic Algorithm for Measuring Pedestrian Congestion and Safety in Urban Alleyways
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationThis study presents an algorithm for measuring Pedestrian Congestion and Safety on alleyways, wherein pedestrians and vehicles share limited space, making traditional pedestrian density metrics inadequate.
Jiyoon Lee, Youngok Kang
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Pedestrian safety evaluation of signalized intersections using surrogate safety measures
Transport, 2020 The large proportions of pedestrian fatalities led researchers to make the improvements of pedestrian safety at intersections. Thus, this paper proposes a methodology to evaluate crosswalk safety at signalized intersections using Surrogate Safety ...
Sankaran Marisamynathan +1 more
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Investigating pedestrian safety-related behavior in developing countries: Egypt as a case study
Traffic Safety Research, 2022 Understanding pedestrian behavior and road safety culture is essential for improving traffic safety in developing countries. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the validity for applying the Pedestrian Behavior Scale (PBS) in Egypt to ...
Abduallah Bayomi +3 more
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Pedestrians' safety at pedestrian crossings
Journal of Modern ScienceCel pracyZapewnienie bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego jest jednym z elementów polityki transportowej, bezpośrednio wiąże się również z bezpieczeństwem państwa – jest stałym zobowiązaniem administracji państwowej do podejmowania działań zmierzających do usunięcia przyczyn zdarzeń drogowych skutkujących utratą życia lub zdrowia uczestników ruchu drogowego ...
Andrzej Czesław Urban +2 more
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Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2023 Pedestrian fatalities constitute a fourth of all road deaths in Ghana. Footbridges are recent countermeasures deployed to improve pedestrians’ safety in Ghana.
James Damsere-Derry +1 more
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