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Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background Crossing a street can be a very difficult task for older pedestrians. With increased age and potential cognitive decline, older people take the decision to cross a street primarily based on vehicles’ distance, and not on their speed ...
Cazzoli, D   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

Prediction of pedal cyclists and pedestrian fatalities from total monthly accidents and registered private car numbers [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Transport, 2015
Accident prevention is relatively a complex issue considering the effectiveness of the injury prevention technologies as well as more detailed assessment of the complex interactions between the road condition, vehicle and human factor.
Kiarash Ghasemlou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The contribution of a tramway to pedestrian vitality

open access: yesTeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020
Pedestrian movement in the public environment is important in supporting local public life, commerce and physical activity. Countering the decline in the presence of people on the streets is a major focus of urban planning in a wide variety of urban ...
John Zacharias
doaj   +1 more source

Using Sensory Wearable Devices to Navigate the City: Effectiveness and User Experience in Older Pedestrians

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2019
Preserving older pedestrians’ navigation skills in urban environments is a challenge for maintaining their quality of life. However, the maps that are usually used by older pedestrians might be unsuitable to their specificities and the existing digital ...
Angélique Montuwy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms of injury of pedestrians in road traffic accidents [PDF]

open access: yesPraxis Medica, 2015
Determination of direction of car impact on pedestrian is complex interdisciplinary biomechanical analysis, which sintetize the work of legal medicine and traffic engineering professions.
Milošević Miroslav   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tramvaj, fijaker i bicikl: Saobraćajna svakodnevica u okupiranom Beogradu 1941. godine [PDF]

open access: yesТокови историје, 2021
The paper discusses the changes in the Belgrade traffic system under the German occupation in 1941, an unavoidable part of everyday life that was radically transformed during the war.
Nataša Milićević, Miloš Timotijević
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Anthropometric Characteristics of Pedestrians in Case of Car Collision

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2016
The paper gives an overview of the specific features of anthropometric characteristics of humans – pedestrians in case of car accidents involving pedestrians and cars.
Jasna Golubić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Walking Secure: Safe Routing Planning Algorithm and Pedestrian’s Crossing Intention Detector Based on Fuzzy Logic App

open access: yesSensors, 2021
Improving road safety through artificial intelligence is now crucial to achieving more secure smart cities. With this objective, a mobile app based on the integration of the smartphone sensors and a fuzzy logic strategy to determine the pedestrian’s ...
José Manuel Lozano Domínguez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

VR Pedestrian Simulator Studies at Home: Comparing Google Cardboards to Simulators in the Lab and Reality

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
Virtual Reality is commonly applied as a tool for analyzing pedestrian behavior in a safe and controllable environment. Most such studies use high-end hardware such as Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs), although, more recently, consumer-grade ...
Philipp Maruhn
doaj   +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

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