Pedestrian trajectory prediction is extremely challenging due to the complex social attributes of pedestrians. Introducing latent vectors to model trajectory multimodality has become the latest mainstream solution idea. However, previous approaches h...
With the rapid development of smartphones and wireless networks, indoor location-based services have become more and more prevalent. Due to the sophisticated propagation of radio signals, the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) shows a signific...
The uncertainty of indoor Wi-Fi positioning is susceptible to many factors, such as sensor distribution, the internal environment (e.g., of a shopping mall), differences between receivers, and the flow of people. In this paper, an indoor pedestrian t...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge for society as a whole, and analyzing the impact of the spread of the epidemic and government control measures on the travel patterns of urban residents can provide powerful help for city managers to designa...
Traffic control systems are crucial for managing traffic flows. Their main function is to reduce interactions among users for safety reasons, while minimizing the travel times. Researchers often concentrate on the cycle length, whose impact on travel...
Wind speed increases in pedestrian-level spaces around high-rise buildings tend to cause uncomfortable and even unsafe wind conditions for pedestrians. Especially, instantaneous strong winds can have a significant impact on the body sensation of pede...
Pedestrian-friendly cities are gaining traction worldwide. This study focused on sidewalk width and green space designs that comprise the walking environment. This study examined uniform planting patterns made without considering the width of the sid...
This article presents a system for detecting pedestrian movement patterns in urban environments, by applying computational intelligence methods for image processing and pattern detection. The proposed system is capable of processing multiple images a...
The pattern of bounding box representation and regression has long been dominant in CNN-based pedestrian detectors. Despite the method’s success, it cannot accurately represent location, and introduces unnecessary background information, while pedest...
This research explores the impact of urban design performance qualities on pedestrian behavior in a cultural heritage site designated by UNESCO. The study employs a multi-method approach, including a questionnaire survey, empirical observation of ped...
Increasing rainfall intensity and altered temporal patterns due to climate change pose significant threats to pedestrian safety in highly urbanized areas. Reliable pedestrian safety assessment is therefore essential for evacuation planning and flood...
Background/Objectives: The incidence of pedestrian traffic injuries is an escalating concern for public health worldwide. Particularly in fast-developing nations, such as Saudi Arabia, these injuries form a significant portion of trauma-related healt...
One of the challenging problems in robot navigation is efficient and safe planning in a highly dynamic environment, where the robot is required to understand pedestrian patterns in the environment, such as train station. The rapid movement of pedestr...
Distance is a recognized key determinant of walking. Pedestrians tend to choose the shortest route between two points. Shortest routes can be spatially described in terms of distances between two points or topologically described as the number of tur...
The metro station ridership features are associated significantly with the built environment factors of the pedestrian catchment area surrounding metro stations. The existing studies have focused on the impact on total ridership at metro stations, ig...
Walking plays an important role in overcoming many challenges nowadays, and governments and local authorities are encouraging healthy and environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Nevertheless, pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users and crashes...
Changes in weather patterns directly impact urban transport infrastructures. The increase in temperature and the ongoing precipitation changes should be handled and managed more frequently. In urban areas, most of the soil is impermeable and water ha...
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has been increasing over the last few years in many sorts of applications due mainly to the decreasing cost of this technology. One can see the use of the UAV in several civilian applications such as surveill...
This study analyses pedestrian behaviour patterns at unsignalized crossings using multiple data-mining approaches, aiming to improve pedestrian safety by understanding the relationship between movement patterns, location, and infrastructure. Utilisin...
These recent years have witnessed the importance of indoor localization and tracking as people are spending more time indoors, which facilitates determining the location of an object. Indoor localization enables accurate and reliable location-based s...
12 January 2019
Greenways are linear open spaces, which are often used as trails for pedestrians and cyclists, but junctions with roads are a safety concern and act as a potential impediment to active transportation. This study evaluated crossing behavior patterns a...
While a road pattern influences wayfinding and navigation, its influence on the gaze behaviours of navigating pedestrians is not well documented. In this study, we compared gaze behaviour differences between regular and irregular road patterns using...
The development of new energy vehicles and road dust removal technologies presents opportunities for constructing urban ventilation systems based on road patterns. However, the impact of road system layouts on pedestrian-level wind environments remai...
Nowadays, city forms are changing due to rapid urbanization and increasing population. In urban morphology studies, walkable street network is examined through the city form to create sustainable cities. This study aims to examine accessibility of st...
A comfortable wind environment favors the sustainable development of urban residential districts and public health. However, the rapid growth of high-rise urban residential districts leads to low wind velocity environments in summer. This study exami...
Wide expansion of smartphones triggered a rapid demand for precise localization that can meet the requirements of location-based services. Although the global positioning system is widely used for outdoor positioning, it cannot provide the same accur...
An indoor localization system based on off-the-shelf smartphone sensors is presented which employs the magnetometer to find user location. Further assisted by the accelerometer and gyroscope, the proposed system is able to locate the user without any...
Pedestrian counting has attracted much interest of the academic and industry communities for its widespread application in many real-world scenarios. While many recent studies have focused on computer vision-based solutions for the problem, the deplo...
23 March 2020
(1) Background: Pedestrian injuries (PIs) represent a significant proportion of road traffic injuries. Our aim was to investigate the incidence and mortality of PIs in different age groups and sociodemographic index (SDI) categories between 1990 and...
Accurate information on the number and distribution of pedestrians in space and time helps urban planners maintain current city infrastructure and design better public spaces for local residents and visitors. Previous studies have demonstrated that u...
This paper explores hourly automated pedestrian count data of seven locations in New York City to understand pedestrian walking patterns in cities. Due to practical limitations, such patterns have been studied conceptually; few researchers have explo...
Numerous pedestrians interact with the subway station space by finding entrances into this closed area to use the subway system; further, they may use transfer transportation facilities or the complex functions nearby, such as commercial. Many studie...
One of the major challenges of autonomous vehicles (AV) is their interaction with pedestrians. Unofficial interactions such as gestures, eye contact, waving, and flashing lights are very common behavioral patterns for drivers to express their intent...
Pedestrian safety is alarming worldwide, and it is well validated that distracted walking/crossing involving mobile phone use would significantly compromise pedestrian safety. Some existing studies demonstrated that distracted pedestrians would spend...
In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of pedestrian behavior in street spaces using pedestrian count data—specifically, the number of pedestrians passing in front of infrared sensors installed throughout the downtown are...
When crossing a road, pedestrians must detect traffic, combine data coming from different perceptual modalities, evaluate the time envelope for safely cross the street, and monitor the position of oncoming vehicles to perform corrective actions if ne...
While light-based external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) on automated vehicles (AVs) are increasingly studied to mediate pedestrian–vehicle conflicts, gaps persist in understanding how specific dynamic features of the AV’s headli...
Pedestrian safety is explored within the framework of 15 min cities, with a focus on behavioural differences between blind and sighted individuals. Utilising the pedestrian behaviour scale (PBS), self-reported pedestrian behaviours were analysed usin...
Underground pedestrian streets play a crucial role in urban spatial systems, yet the positioning of atrium spaces in existing underground walkways is often determined empirically without adequate consideration of spatial rationality in relation to pu...
In this paper, a lattice hydrodynamic model of four-way pedestrian traffic considering turning capacity is proposed. The stability conditions are obtained by stability analysis. The mKdV equation is derived using the reductive perturbation method of...
4 July 2022
The exclusive pedestrian phase (EPP) has proven to be an effective method of eliminating pedestrian–vehicle conflicts at signalized intersections. The existing EPP setting conditions take traffic efficiency and safety as optimization goals, whi...
Predominantly, dense historical cities face insufficient pedestrian-level greenery in the urban spaces. The lack of greenery impacts the human thermal comfort on the walking paths, which contributes to a considerable reduction in pedestrian flow rate...
Traffic crashes involving pedestrians have a high frequency in developing countries. Among road users, pedestrians are the most vulnerable, as their involvement in traffic crashes is usually followed by severe and fatal injuries. This study aims to i...
The interaction among pedestrians and human drivers is a complicated process, in which road users have to communicate their intentions, as well as understand and anticipate the actions of users in their vicinity. However, road users still ought to ha...
Functional objects are large and small physical entities installed in urban environments to offer specific functionalities to visitors, such as shops, escalators, and information kiosks. Instances of the novel notion are focal points of human activit...
Recently, advances in detection and re-identification techniques have significantly boosted tracking-by-detection-based multi-pedestrian tracking (MPT) methods and made MPT a great success in most easy scenes. Several very recent works point out that...
Detecting anomalous pedestrian behaviors is critical for enhancing safety in dense urban environments, particularly in complex back streets where movement patterns are irregular and context-dependent. While extensive research has been conducted on tr...
(1) Background: Almost all trips include a walking leg. Pedestrian flow dynamics are an essential input to infrastructure design as well as efficient and safe operations. Pedestrian walking speed is the most influential traffic flow variable. This st...
At most public places where large-scale events are held, the crowd as a pedestrian particle system is a mixture of individuals and groups rather than a pure collection of individuals. The interaction behaviors of pedestrians within the same group and...
This article focuses on modeling counterflows within pedestrian social groups in a corridor using the kinetic theory approach, specifically when two social groups move in opposite directions. The term social group refers to a set of pedestrians with...
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