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Pedestrian Safety [PDF]

open access: yesPediatrics, 2009
This Policy Statement was revised. See https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-062506. Each year, approximately 900 pediatric pedestrians younger than 19 years are killed. In addition, 51000 children are injured as pedestrians, and 5300 of them are hospitalized because of their injuries. Parents should be warned that young children often do
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Pedestrian movement intention identification model in mixed pedestrian-bicycle sections based on phase-field coupling theory

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Pedestrian is an important factor for traffic safety and capacity in the sections mixed with bicycle. It is important for improving active safety to implement timely pedestrian safety warning under the condition of Internet of pedestrian and bicycle. The
Zhen-xue Liu   +5 more
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Characteristics of Dangerous Scenarios between Vehicles Turning Right and Pedestrians under Left-Hand Traffic

open access: yesApplied 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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The usage and perception of pedestrian and cycling streets on residents’ well-being in Kalamaria, Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Pedestrian zones are public spaces intended for the continued and safe mobility of pedestrians and people with disabilities, and they provide multiple benefits to urban areas. They counterbalance the densely built-up areas, decrease atmospheric pollution,
Kantartzis, Apostolos   +4 more
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Combining LiDAR Space Clustering and Convolutional Neural Networks for Pedestrian Detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Pedestrian detection is an important component for safety of autonomous vehicles, as well as for traffic and street surveillance. There are extensive benchmarks on this topic and it has been shown to be a challenging problem when applied on real use-case
Ekenel, Hazım Kemal   +2 more
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A broadcast scheme for vehicle-to-pedestrian safety message dissemination

open access: yesInternational 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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Safety on pedestrian crossing [PDF]

open access: yesInjury 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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Self-reported pedestrian knowledge of safety by school children in cape coast metropolis, Ghana

open access: yesUrban, 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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Reduced Memory Region Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Accurate pedestrian detection has a primary role in automotive safety: for example, by issuing warnings to the driver or acting actively on car's brakes, it helps decreasing the probability of injuries and human fatalities.
Baroffio, Luca   +5 more
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Risk assessment methodologies for pedestrian crossings without traffic lights – Warsaw case study – pedestrian safety assessment

open access: yesMATEC 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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