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Applying ITS to Pedestrian Requirements (PDF Format, 152K) is an attempt to relate the basic concepts of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to pedestrian requirements. Potential applications are broken out into five areas: (a) applications to enhance or augment information provided to pedestrians with special limitations or disabilities, (b) applications to improve the detection of pedestrians by motor vehicles, (c) applications to increase sensitivity to pedestrians at marked and unmarked crossings, (d) efforts to improve basic pedestrian-system interfaces, and (e) multi-modal applications to increased pedestrian mobility.
Evaluation of Automated Pedestrian Detection Capabilities (PDF Format, 330K) provides the results of an operational field study to evaluate the effectiveness of infra red (IR) and microwave automated pedestrian detection capabilities used in conjunction with standard pedestrian push buttons at signalized intersections. The results of data collected in Los Angeles, CA; Syracuse, NY; and Phoenix, AZ are presented in terms of the improved degree of control achieved over the basic components of pedestrian crossing behavior.
Human Factors "Principles" for Design of Pedestrian Facilities (PDF Format, 9K) outlines a set of basic 'principles' identified by HSRC within the context of a pedestrian safety 'charette' conducted by Walkable Communities for the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, the City of Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, NV. The principles address basic pedestrian facility requirements and are not intended to provide actual 'engineering' guidelines for the design of such facilities. The principles are part of a larger report entitled, "Creating a More Walkable Las Vegas."
The Perceived Effectiveness of Sidewalks and Other Pedestrian Safety Treatments as Countermeasures for Walking Along Roadway Crashes (PDF Format, 830K) reports on the use of the Delphi Method to achieve consensus among 'experts' in pedestrian safety on the probable cause of walking-in-roadway pedestrian crashes and on recommended countermeasures for such crashes. The results are discussed in the context of the more general problem, that being how to provide effective lateral separation between users of very different modal characteristics (in this case, pedestrians and motor vehicles). Countermeasures that are discussed consist of such treatments as paved shoulders, unpaved but "walkable shoulders," and sidewalks. The study was conducted in the context of a larger research effort, the overall goal of which was to evaluate the effectiveness of sidewalks and other pedestrian safety treatments and, if possible, to develop recommendations for when such treatments were 'warranted.'
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