Pedestrians are important yet vulnerable road users, especially in urban environments. Traffic accidents involving pedestrians usually lead to serious injuries or fatalities. From an application’s point of view, pedestrian detection can be used for traffic flow monitoring, intelligent pedestrian crossing or on-board vehicle for driver assistance. From the technology’s point view, different sens...

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Pedestrian facilities play an important role in encouraging walking ability, which can help improve the quality of life our citizens and livability urban areas. safety needs to be concern because pedestrians are vulnerable road users traffic spaces. Variables determining pedestrian crossing have been defined each country, but whether it accommodate needs. This study aims inventory variables use...

the prevent alcohol and risk related trauma in youth (p.a.r.t.y.) program is an injury prevention program set up in 2011 at a level-1 trauma center in germany. its objective is the prevention of road traffic accidents among young road users. our goal is to enable adolescents to recognize risks and to improve life-changing behavior to reduce the severity of injury and the number of killed young ...

The Preventive and Active Safety Applications project (PReVENT), contributes to the safety goals of the European Commission (EC). PReVENT addresses the function fields of Safe Speed and Safe Following, Lateral Support, Intersection Safety and Protection of Vulnerable Road Users and Collision Mitigation in order to cover the field of active safety. The majority of these functions are characteriz...

Object detection in autonomous driving applications implies the and tracking of semantic objects that are commonly native to urban environments, as pedestrians vehicles. One major challenges state-of-the-art deep-learning based object false positives which occur with overconfident scores. This is highly undesirable other critical robotic-perception domains because safety concerns. paper propose...

Collisions between distinct road users (e.g. drivers and motorcyclists) make a substantial contribution to the road trauma burden. Although evidence suggests distinct road users interpret the same road situations differently, it is not clear how road users’ situation awareness differs, nor is it clear which differences might lead to conflicts. This article presents the findings from an onroad s...

Between March 2004 and June 2007 The Rural and Remote Road Safety Study recorded 164 non-fatal motorcycle crashes in which a rider was seriously injured (hospitalised for 24 hours or more) on North Queensland public roads or lands. 88 of these riders consented to an interview with research staff during which a questionnaire was administered to gather information on crash experience, demographic...

The overall objective of the thesis is to explore various types of real-world road traffic data and to assess the extent to which they can inform the design of active safety systems that aim to prevent car-to-vulnerable road user (VRU) accidents. A combined analysis of in-depth and police reported accident data provided information on driver behavior and contextual variables, which is valuable ...