In preparation for unavoidable collisions, autonomous vehicle (AV) manufacturers could program their cars with utilitarian ethical algorithms that maximize the number of lives saved during a crash. However, recent research employing hypothetical AV crash scenarios reveals people are not willing to purchase despite judging them be morally appropriate (Bonnefon, Shariff, & Rahwan, 2016). This imp...

Pedestrian infrastructures are a critical part of the sustainable transportation system city across world. The key risks to pedestrians well documented, including infrastructure in terms lack dedicated pedestrian facilities, such as sidewalks, crossings, and raised medians. This paper aimed assess road transport Jimma city. P-index (Pedestrian-index) method was used evaluate infrastructures, co...

MEP (Maps for Easy Paths) is a project for the enrichment of geographical maps with information about accessibility of urban pedestrian pathways, targeted at people with mobility problems. In this paper, we describe the tools developed to collect data along the paths travelled by target people and the algorithms for a good quality reconstruction of the path developed to overcome the intrinsic l...

We propose a decision-aiding evaluation procedure (i) for classifying road crossings based on their impact on walkability and, subsequently, (ii) for prioritising street improvements, in urban-rural fringe areas. In the peripheral urban-rural fringes, pedestrian mobility is usually less developed and people generally depend more on cars for their everyday chores. Partly this is inevitable given...

Commonly used measures of the pedestrian environment rely on field data collection and subjective judgments. This study develops objective measures of the pedestrian environment that use secondary data or plans for proposed neighborhoods and still correlate well with accepted subjective measures. Data to estimate these measures, describing network design, sidewalk availability and building acce...

this research paper lays stress on philosophies of human desire. all the human being has some psychical need in addition to physical needs. and to satisfy the psychical needs, there is a need for stimulants, more in case of exclusive pedestrian precincts. having exclusively pedestrian precincts/cores in city design draws its inspiration from the fact that public zones, accessible to majority of...

The Five Ds of the built environment – density, land use diversity, pedestrian oriented design, destination accessibility and distance to transit – are suggested by Ewing and Cervero (2010) as the built environment factors that can reduce car use in favour of public transport, walking and cycling. This paper examines the strength of these effects by analysing whether built environment factors c...