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Investigating pedestrian safety-related behavior in developing countries: Egypt as a case study

open access: yesTraffic 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
doaj   +1 more source

The development of an automatic method of safety monitoring at Pelican Crossings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper reports on the development of a method for automatic monitoring of safety at Pelican crossings. Historically, safety monitoring has typically been carried out using accident data, though given the rarity of such events it is difficult to ...
Malkhamah, S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A Dynamic Algorithm for Measuring Pedestrian Congestion and Safety in Urban Alleyways

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pedestrian safety evaluation of signalized intersections using surrogate safety measures

open access: yesTransport, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Road safety benefits and challenges associated with pedestrian footbridge patronage along the Madina-Adenta highway

open access: yesUrban, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the effectiveness of safety education of pedestrians. DESIGN: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of safety education programmes for pedestrians of all ages.
Bunn, Frances   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Pedestrians' safety at pedestrian crossings

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science
Cel 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Policies and Interventions to Provide Safety for Pedestrians and Overcome the Systematic Biases Underlying the Failures

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020
Road transport is failing pedestrians more than other road users. For pedestrians, roads are not safe or improving: Globally pedestrian deaths have increased at nearly twice the rate of other road crash deaths (12.9% increase from 2013 to 2016, vs. a 6.6%
Raymond Franklin Soames Job
doaj   +1 more source

Framework for pedestrian walking behaviour recognition to minimize road accident [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Pedestrian walking misbehaviour represents a severe problem to road safety. Therefore, pedestrian behaviour classification is a perfect solution in providing safety for both pedestrians and vehicles by exchanging movement information among entities
Hashim Kareem, Zahraa
core  

Towards a Practical Pedestrian Distraction Detection Framework using Wearables

open access: yes, 2017
Pedestrian safety continues to be a significant concern in urban communities and pedestrian distraction is emerging as one of the main causes of grave and fatal accidents involving pedestrians.
Crager, Kirsten   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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