Road traffic sounds are a major source of noise pollution in urban areas. But recent developments such as low noise pavements and hybrid/electric engine vehicles cast an optimistic outlook over such an environmental problem. However, it can be argued that engine, tire, and road noise could be relevant sources of information to avoid road traffic conflicts and accidents. In this paper, we analyz...

Currently, the active braking system is primarily used to avoid collisions between vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) traversing at a constant speed in straight conditions. Research on collision avoidance strategy has been conducted enhance protective effects of for VRUs various motion states curved Firstly, spatial position relationships turn-taking are established when traverse from ou...

BACKGROUND The increasing number of older road users represents a public health issue because older individuals are more susceptible to traffic injury and mortality than the general population. This study investigated the association between socio-demographic factors and traffic injury and traffic mortality for the general population and among older road users in Japan. METHODS An ecological ...

Pedestrians are an extremely vulnerable road user group and make up approximately 15 percent of all road fatalities and 12 percent of all serious injuries. A large proportion of pedestrian deaths and serious injuries involve older adults, who are more vulnerable because of age-related frailty. Given that many crashes involving older road users occur in complex situations, it is suggested that a...

Roads fragment our landscape, posing a severe threat to the persistence of wildlife populations through losses of individuals to direct mortality and decreased connectivity. Although they possess a particular suite of life history characteristics that make them especially vulnerable, snakes tend to be underrepresented in research examining vertebrate road mortality. Here, we report a statistica...

Accurate detection and classification of vulnerable road users is a safety critical requirement for the deployment autonomous vehicles in heterogeneous traffic. Although similar physical appearance to pedestrians, e-scooter riders follow distinctly different characteristics movement can reach speeds up 45kmph. The challenge detecting exacerbated urban environments where frequency partial occlus...

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users. For evaluating and modifying pedestrian safety in unsignalized crosswalks,the first important issue is to identify and explore factors affecting the interaction behavior of pedestrians andvehicles in conflict areas. By analyzing those factors and determining how they affect road user's behavior, we canrepresent the plans and proc...