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Vulnerable Users’ Perceptions of Transport Technologies [PDF]

, 2016
As the global population continues to grow, age and urbanize, it is vital to provide accessible transport so that neither ageing nor disability constitute barriers to social inclusion.
Alexandros Nikitas, Alsnih R, Arthur WB, Daatland SO, Gilleard C, Heidegger M, Hine J, Horne C, Jana Sochor, Karlsson J, Lucas K, Moseley MJ, Nikitas A, Nikitas A, Otter A, Pragnell M, Rhodes R, SCB (Statistics Sweden), Sochor J, SP (Swedish Parliament), Trafikanalys, WHO (World Health Organization), Xie B   +22 more
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Protecting Vulnerable Road Users from Injury

PLoS Medicine, 2010
Aymery Constant and Emmanuel Lagarde discuss policies to protect pedestrians, and pedal and motor cyclists, from injury.
Constant, Aymery, Lagarde, Emmanuel
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Dynamic Assessment of Road Network Vulnerability Based on Cell Transmission Model

Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021
The road network maintaining stability is critical for guaranteeing urban traffic function. Therefore, the vulnerable links need to be identified accurately.
Yu Sun, Binglei Xie, Shan Wang, Dazhuang Wu   +3 more
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SaferCross: Enhancing Pedestrian Safety Using Embedded Sensors of Smartphone [PDF]

, 2020
The number of pedestrian accidents continues to keep climbing. Distraction from smartphone is one of the biggest causes for pedestrian fatalities. In this paper, we develop SaferCross, a mobile system based on the embedded sensors of smartphone to ...
Eun, Yongsoon, Park, Kyung-Joon, Shrestha, Aawesh, Won, Myounggyu   +3 more
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Study on influence of walking experience on traffic safety attitudes and values among foreign residents in Japan

IATSS Research, 2022
The most vulnerable user in road space is still an ordinary pedestrian even though the top fatalities by traffic mode differ in countries. Thus, prioritizing/protecting vulnerable road users is essential to improve road safety.
Kento Yoh, Sippakorn Khaimook, Kenji Doi, Takahiro Yamamoto   +3 more
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The acceptance of conditionally automated cars from the perspective of different road user groups

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2021
The foreseeable advent of conditionally automated cars (CACs) at SAE Level 3 opens a range of opportunities along with numerous questions that must be addressed to safely adopt this new vehicle technology.
Bernhard Schrauth, Walter Funk, Sarah Maier, Clemens Kraetsch   +3 more
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A data-driven on-site injury severity assessment model for car-to-electric-bicycle collisions based on positional relationship and random forest

Electronic Research Archive, 2023
Vulnerable road users (VRUs) are usually more susceptible to fatal injuries. Accurate and rapid assessment of VRU injury severity at the accident scene can provide timely support for decision-making in emergency response.
Ye Yu, Zhiyuan Liu
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Geometrical and functional criteria as a methodological approach to implement a new cycle path in an existing Urban Road Network: A Case study in Rome [PDF]

, 2018
Most road accidents occur in urban areas and notably at urban intersections, where cyclists and motorcyclists are the most vulnerable. In the last few years, cycling mobility has been growing; therefore, bike infrastructures should be designed to ...
DI MASCIO, Paola, Fusco, Gaetano, Grappasonni, Giorgio, Moretti, Laura, Ragnoli, Antonella   +4 more
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Evaluating the performance of a web-based vehicle blind zone estimation application: Validation and policy implications

Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2023
Pedestrian fatalities have been increasing in the United States over the past decade; in 2021 they reached a 40-year high and together with an increasing number of bicyclist fatalities surged to over 8,400 vulnerable road users (VRUs) killed by motor ...
Juwon Drake, Alessandra Vennema, Lily Slonim, Eric Englin, Alyssa Brodeur, Alexander K. Epstein, Donald L. Fisher   +6 more
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Vulnerable Road Users or Vulnerable Transport Planning?

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020
The concept of vulnerable road users is widely used in transport and road safety discourse. The concept refers to walkers or pedestrians and cyclists (bicyclists and motorcylists) who are easily injured and killed in a car-dominated road space. Who is really vulnerable: road users or transport planning?
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