walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

Pedestrian safety continues to be a significant concern in urban communities and pedestrian distraction is emerging as one of the main causes of grave and fatal accidents involving pedestrians. The advent of sophisticated mobile and wearable devices, equipped with high-precision on-board sensors capable of measuring fine-grained user movements and context, provides a tremendous opportunity for ...

The presence of pedestrians is definitory for street vitality. This study employs statistical and geospatial analyses to explore how built environment factors explain changes in “pedestrian flows” “stationary activities” on fifteen segments Shanghai, at a mesoscale. Detailed indicators were collected through field surveys, behavioral mappings, counting. Changes are distinguished from those acti...

A mesoscopic approach to modeling pedestrian simulation with multiple exits is proposed in this paper. A floor field based on Qlearning Algorithm is used. Attractiveness of exits to pedestrian typically is based on shortest path. However, several factors may influence pedestrian choice of exits. Scenarios with multiple exits are presented and effect of Q-learning rewards system on navigation is...

Previous research has shown that trees and other roadside vegetation can mitigate adverse environmental conditions on urban street corridors, and, in turn, positively contribute to pedestrian perceptions of safety walkability. In this study, surveys (n = 181) were collected from three Massachusetts post-industrial cities understand if moderate safety. Three tree – sparse abundance, mature trees...

While impressive recent progress has been achieved with autonomous vehicles both indoors and on streets, autonomous localization and navigation in less constrained and more dynamic environments, such as outdoor pedestrian and bicycle-friendly sites, remains a challenging problem. We describe a new approach that utilizes several visual perception modules — place recognition, landmark recognition...

Walking, as an important transportation mode, plays a large part in urban transportation systems. This mode is of great importance for planners and decision-makers because of its impact on environmental and health aspects of communities. However, this mode is so complex in nature that makes it difficult to study or model. On the other hand, chaos theory studies complex dynamical nonlinear syste...

To ensure pedestrian friendly streets in the era of automated vehicles, reassessment current policies, practices, design, rules and regulations urban areas is importance. This study investigates crossing behaviour, as an important element dynamics that expected to be affected by presence vehicles. For this purpose, interpretable machine learning framework proposed explore factors affecting pede...