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Giuseppe Loprencipe, Laura Moretti, Antonio Pantuso and Eligio Banfi
In urban areas traffic-calming strategies and pedestrian friendly measures are often adopted to reduce the adverse impacts of motor vehicles on vulnerable users. This study surveyed 24 raised pedestrian crossings (RPCs) to examine their geometrical and f...
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Krzysztof Tomczuk, Piotr Tomczuk and Marcin Chrzanowicz
A properly designed and manufactured autonomous lighting system has an impact on reducing the amount of conflicts between pedestrians and drivers. For pedestrian crossings located outside of urban areas, one of the utilized solutions is PV installations ...
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Gonçalo J. M. Rosa, João M. S. Afonso, Pedro D. Gaspar, Vasco N. G. J. Soares and João M. L. P. Caldeira
Pedestrian crossings are an essential part of the urban landscape, providing safe passage for pedestrians to cross busy streets. While some are regulated by timed signals and are marked with signs and lights, others are simply marked on the road and do n...
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Tomás de J. Mateo Sanguino, Manuel Joaquín Redondo González, Jose Miguel Davila Martin and José Manuel Lozano Domínguez
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Emese Mako, Petra Szakonyi
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Road traffic crashes result from a combination of factors related to the road layout, the vehicles, the road users and the way they interact. First the main causes of pedestrian fatalities and the safety effects of road measures (traffic lights, roundabo...
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Piotr Olszewski, Beata Osinska, Anna Zielinska
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This paper attempts to examine and analyse accident causation and risk factors for pedestrian injuries at signalized locations in Warsaw. In large Polish cities like Warsaw, pedestrians constitute almost 60% of road fatalities. Although traffic safety si...
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Piotr Olszewski, Ilona Buttler, Witold Czajewski, Pawel Dabkowski, ... Anna Zielinska
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Pedestrian fatality rate in Poland of 30 deaths per year per million population was the second highest among the EU countries in 2013. In the years 2007-2013 some 13% of pedestrian fatalities and 26% of injuries occurred at unsignalized pedestrian crossi...
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Miguel R. Luaces, Jesús A. Fisteus, Luis Sánchez-Fernández, Mario Munoz-Organero, Jesús Balado, Lucía Díaz-Vilariño and Henrique Lorenzo
Providing citizens with the ability to move around in an accessible way is a requirement for all cities today. However, modeling city infrastructures so that accessible routes can be computed is a challenge because it involves collecting information from...
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Giovanni Pau, Tiziana Campisi, Antonino Canale, Alessandro Severino, Mario Collotta and Giovanni Tesoriere
In the last few years, numerous research efforts have been conducted to merge the Internet of Things (IoT) with smart city environments. The goal to make a city ?smart? is arising as a possible solution to lessen the issues caused by the urban population...
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Jamal Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Bilal Khurshid, Arshad Hussain and Asif Azam
Open-access multilane highways have a significant share in the highway network of Pakistan and other developing countries in Asia. These highways have high access density, design inconsistency, and other operational characteristics that differentiate the...
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Mo Fan, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Aldrin Abdullah and Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki
Contemporary urban development places a critical emphasis on pedestrian environments, especially in historic cities like George Town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Malaysia. Although survey questionnaires effectively captured public perception...
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Thodsapon Hunsanon, Nopadon Kronprasert, Auttawit Upayokin, Praprut Songchitruksa
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On major corridors where mid-block pedestrian crossing exists, traffic flows are frequently interrupted by pedestrian crossing movements. The pedestrian crossings operated by manual control may cause vehicular movements experience unexpected stops and ex...
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The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (KLCH) has planted 100,000 trees along the main streets of the city centre through the National Economic Transformation Programme to make the city more liveable. This paper studies the reasons of its different establishments an...
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Oksana Batishcheva, Alexander Ganichev
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The article identifies problems of ensuring safety of vehicles and pedestrians at street intersections and road intersections outside inhabited localities, as well as at pedestrian crossings. Recommendations for the use of special markings are given, tak...
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Pelin Onelcin, Yalcin Alver
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Pedestrians are the vulnerable part of the road users worldwide. A significant number of pedestrian fatalities occur in road traffic accidents each year. Hence, to minimize the pedestrian-vehicle accidents it is important to optimize the signal timings a...
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Wendy Tao, Shomik Mehndiratta, Elizabeth Deakin
This study focuses on how street design and land uses influence pedestrian behavior in a medium-sized Chinese city, Fushun. In cities throughout China, the change from workplace-managed and assigned housing to market housing has had profound effects o...
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Jonathan Stiles, Harvey Miller
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This study identifies built environmental factors that influence the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes in the United States, with implications for both safety and equity. Using data from Columbus, Ohio, we apply regression modeling, spat...
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Rosendo Lerma Villa, José Luis Reyes Araiza, José de Jesús Pérez Bueno, Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez and Maria Luisa Mendoza López
Pervious concrete has great potential for use in many practical applications as a part of urban facilities that can add value through water harvesting and mitigating severe damage from floods. The construction and agricultural industries can take direct ...
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Vladimir Berg, Anton Vengerov, Albert Brand, Natalya Mostovaya
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This article describes the possibility of using self-contained power sources based on piezo-electric technology which converts kinetic energy of the traffic flow into electric which is located in an inner cavity of a speed bump. The purpose is to provide...
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Pedro Torres, Hugo Marques and Paulo Marques
This paper describes a real case implementation of an automatic pedestrian-detection solution, implemented in the city of Aveiro, Portugal, using affordable LiDAR technology and open, publicly available, pedestrian-detection frameworks based on machine-l...
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