Background: In recent decades, ‎due to the increase in users of roads and inadequate attention to the creation and development of appropriate passageways for traffic, there has been a growing trend in traffic accidents and casualties caused by them. The traffic accidents among pedestrians to take necessary measures in a timely fashion should be well studied. This study was conducted with th...

BACKGROUND This article presents age-specific mortality rates of children for selected causes of accidents and assault using the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). The study is an analysis of the social inequalities in fatal childhood accidents and assault at the start of the 21st century. It aims to identify the causes and age groups for which these inequalities are th...

Pedestrian are most at risk when crossing a road section with a large amount of pedestrian-vehicle interaction. Thus, an understanding of the complex interaction between pedestrian behaviour, signal setting and environment is essential to assess the contribution of these factors to pedestrian accidents. The complexity of these interactions could possibly been described and explored using a powe...

With the aim of reducing traffic accidents, vehicle-infrastructure cooperative driving safety support systems (Fig. 1) have been actively developed. These systems comprise a sensor installed on the roadside to detect nearby pedestrians, bicycles or other objects and warn approaching vehicle drivers. The sensor must accurately detect pedestrians or other objects in all environments 24 hours a da...

Knowledge of the amount of violence tolerated by the human body is essential when developing and implementing pedestrian safety strategies. When estimating the potential benefits of new countermeasures, the pedestrian fatality risk as a function of impact speed is of particular importance. Although this function has been analysed previously, we state that a proper understanding does not exist. ...

INTRODUCTION Research within the European Union has shown international visitors to have a higher injury mortality than residents. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of injury-related death among overseas visitors and evidence suggests overseas visitors are at a greater risk of being involved in road traffic accidents than the resident population. Little information looks specifically at p...

Pedestrian deaths account for the highest percentage of fatality caused by traffic accidents in Japan. Increasing pedestrian safety is a key objective reducing such deaths. For vehicles at low speed, turning vehicle toward right was most common behavior under left-hand traffic. Autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems have great potential to mitigate injuries and fatalities accidents. However...

The research objective of this work was to describe typical accident scenarios for pedestrian accidents. The accident analysis forms a component of work by the AEB Test Group which aims to develop test procedures for assessing Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems. This technology is penetrating the vehicle market and is designed to offer protection against the occurrence and severity of c...

Pedestrian detection method is the highest priority for “active safety” which prevents traffic accidents before happens. In previous studies, edge orientation based feature descriptors are proposed. Recently, high standard detection algorithm, Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients (CoHOG) is proposed. However, this method has miss detection in complicated situation and processing cost ...

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...