This study used an ABA reversal design to evaluate the effectiveness of written signs with social assistance to increase the proportion of drivers stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks. In Weeks 1 and 3, observers obtained baseline data on the proportion of drivers stopping for pedestrians at two sites. In Week 2, the observers instituted the signs with social assistance, and observed stopping...

Pedestrians account for 10-30% of all road accident fatalities in western countries, and therefore efforts to improve pedestrian safety are of major importance. Research can support these efforts in various ways, particularly by studying road crossing patterns, and by exploring pedestrian compliance rates to safety laws and guidelines. This paper focuses on pedestrian crossing behavior at round...

Most of public travel information services nowadays are limited to the driving navigation or bus/subway guidance. Practical needs for pedestrian navigation yet haven’t got met enough and usually result in unacceptable travel route planning. This paper presents an approach on building Walkway network with different map layers for pedestrian specified facilities, and then implements pedestrian ai...

This paper introduces an online pedestrian crossing detection system that uses pre-existing traffic-oriented video-sensors which, at regular intervals, provide coarse spatial measurements on areas along a crosswalk. Pedestrian crossing detection is based on the recognition of occupancy patterns induced by pedestrians when they move on the crosswalk. In order to improve the ability of non-dedica...

The timing of traffic lights follows the code of uniform signalling devices. As such, the timing for crosswalks is determined by dividing the width of the roadway by 4. Four (4) is a magic number that corresponds to the walking speed of an adult male of ‘average’ age and dates back to some time in the 1950’s. Most importantly, a male of ‘average’ age most certainly does not represent the walkin...

As computer science (CS) education becomes more prevalent in K-12 instruction, it is critical for educators, researchers, and curriculum developers to identify culturally responsive pedagogically inclusive approaches that can increase participation, access, feelings of belonging students from historically marginalized communities. In response, we developed an equity-centered curricular framewor...