Road accidents claim between 13,000 and 14,000 lives annually in South Africa. Many victims are jaywalking pedestrians, often under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Motorists are involved in fatal accidents due to various human, vehicle and road factors. With the annual increase in vehicle ownership and use, the question is how to lower the fatality rate in South Africa? In order to substanti...

A modified cellular automaton (CA) model based on the NaSch model is proposed to simulate the typical reckless jaywalking which can cause serious traffic jam and even traffic accident. Incorporating traffic psychology, the walking characteristics such as customary activity, randomness, conformity and tendency are analyzed. Two parameters reflecting the influence degree of human factor is introd...

Stereotype threat, or the belief that one may be the target of demeaning stereotypes, leads to performance disruptions in a variety of domains. Two experiments conducted in a driving simulator demonstrate that stereotype threat also disrupts control of an automobile. Women who were reminded of the stereotype that females are poor drivers were more than twice as likely to collide with jaywalking...

It is dangerous for pedestrians to run when the traffic shows a red light, but in some cases the pedestrians are breaking the rules. This system will be a meaningful thing if the jaywalking behaviors of pedestrians in the road crossing through the monitoring cameras could be recognized. Then drivers can be informed of the situations in advance, and they can take some actions to avoid an acciden...

The similarity of two polygonal curves can be measured using the Fréchet distance. We introduce the notion of a more robust Fréchet distance, where one is allowed to shortcut between vertices of one of the curves. This is a natural approach for handling noise, in particular batched outliers. We compute a (3 + ε)-approximation to the minimum Fréchet distance over all possible such shortcuts, in ...