The current paper presents the results of behavioural observations in a field experiment with automated shuttles Oslo, Norway. Video were conducted at five fixed locations along challenging 1.2 km shuttle line varying traffic conditions. Observed interactions between vulnerable road users and coded using predefined codebook, which allowed structured quantitative analysis. identified several pot...

ITS Applications have in recent years assisted in reducing the number of fatalities in Europe. However, Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) have not benefited as much as vehicle users. The EU-sponsored VRUITS project assesses the safety and mobility impacts of ITS applications for VRUs, assesses the impacts of current and upcoming ITS applications on the safety and mobility of VRUs, identifies how the...

Highly automated driving requires precise models of traffic participants. Many state of the art models are currently based on machine learning techniques. Among others, the required amount of labeled data is one major challenge. An autonomous learning process addressing this problem is proposed. The initial models are iteratively refined in three steps: (1) detection and context identification,...

In automotive design, safety remains a growing priority. Recently focus has extended beyond the occupants of the vehicle and turned towards other Vulnerable Road Users (VRU). Simple night vision systems have already become an important safety feature in modern high end automobiles. The next generation of advanced driver assistance systems will automate the detection of VRUs, to improve safety f...

With the recent advancements in radar systems, sensors offer a promising and effective perception of surrounding. This includes target detection, classification tracking. Compared to state-of-the-art, where state vector classical tracker considers only localization parameters, this paper proposes an integrated Bayesian framework by augmenting with feature embedding as appearance parameter toget...

Mix-zones are recognized as an alternative and complementary approach to spatial cloaking based location privacy protection. Unlike spatial cloaking techniques that perturb the location resolution through location k-anonymization, mixzones break the continuity of location exposure by ensuring that users’ movements cannot be traced while they are inside a mix-zone. In this paper we provide an ov...

This paper discusses the current level of the road safety problems of cycling and cyclists, why cyclists run relatively high risks, and why cyclists may be considered as 'vulnerable road users'. This paper is based on peer-reviewed research which give some idea how to reduce the number of cyclist casualties. However, this research is rather limited and the results cannot (easily) be transferred...

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Tami Toroyan (e-mail: [email protected]). Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem, resulting in over 1.2 million deaths each year.1 They affect all age groups but their impact is most striking among the young: they are the lea...