Previous studies have shown that roundabouts - especially multilane roundabouts - pose accessibility challenges to pedestrians with vision impairments, in part due to a lack of yielding by drivers, especially on multilane roundabout exit legs. In this study, three different treatments are assessed in terms of their propensity for increasing driver yielding rate using a driving simulator. These ...

Rail transportation being the economic means of transportation, majority pedestrians rely on them in countries like India. Unlike metro stations, intercity railway stations exists a wide degree heterogeneity pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walking speed stairways depends various factors grouped under pedestrian, infrastructure, and environmental characteristics. Understating perception quality ...

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...

ABSTRACT A vibrant and commercially active center is often the result of interesting, diverse building styles and or built-forms, pedestrian density along with variety of quality public places where people feel comfortable, spending time and shopping items for domestic and commercial functions in cities like Addis Ababa. The scale and design of buildings, pedestrian density, and other phy...

Today, automobile dependency constantly causes traffic congestion, delays, reduced access, increased fuel and energy consumption, environmental emissions. Automobile has caused many direct indirect transportation problems that may influence our life. Urban planners engineers seek to improve transport networks considering social issues. One of the most successful solutions for advocating sustain...

As mobile phones are starting to get equipped with inertial sensors, indoor navigation for pedestrians becomes an increasingly interesting topic in research. This work aims to develop and evaluate the use of a Particle Filter to deal with noisy sensor measurements of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) providing localization and tracking of a pedestrian in indoor environments. Designed at the In...

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...