Understanding complex traffic road scenes: The case of child-pedestrians’ hazard perception

Meir, Anat; Oron-Gilad, Tal

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2019.12.014

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“…The influential parameters were selected based on analysis of existing studies among those that resulted important when it comes to research of pedestrian behavior. Many studies have shown that children's behavior in traffic is influenced by their age, gender [21,23,24] control of inhibitors, parental expectations and beliefs [25], parental supervision [26], the complexity of the situation [19], the distraction of attention [27,28], and various development and other parameters that are not measurable in real traffic conditions.…”

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“…Studies show different hazard perception of current traffic situation in different age groups of pedestrians. The research results of pedestrians' hazard-perception skills in complex traffic scenes [19] show the dependence of contextual variables and risk perception. The simple and usual design of the conflict zone, and less additional environmental content, results in greater attention in the analysis of the current traffic situation.…”

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confidence: 93%

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Development of Models for Children—Pedestrian Crossing Speed at Signalized Crosswalks

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Modeling the behavior of pedestrians is an important tool in the analysis of their behavior and consequently ensuring the safety of pedestrian traffic. Children pedestrians show specific traffic behavior which is related to cognitive development, and the parameters that affect their traffic behavior are very different. The aim of this paper is to develop a model of the children-pedestrian’s speed at a signalized pedestrian crosswalk. For the same set of data collected in the city of Osijek—Croatia, two models were developed based on neural network and multiple linear regression. In both cases the models are based on 300 data of measured children speed at signalized pedestrian crosswalks on primary city roads located near a primary school. As parameters, both models include the selected traffic infrastructure features and children’s characteristics and their movements. The models are validated on data collected on the same type of pedestrian crosswalks, using the same methodology in two other urban environments—the city of Rijeka, Croatia and Enna in Italy. It was shown that the neural network model, developed for Osijek, can be applied with sufficient reliability to the other two cities, while the multiple linear regression model is applicable with relatively satisfactory reliability only in Rijeka. A comparative analysis of the statistical indicators of reliability of these two models showed that better results are achieved by the neural network model.

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Development of Models for Children—Pedestrian Crossing Speed at Signalized Crosswalks

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“…The study discovered that knowledge of dangerous situations in the traffic area, or the ability to "sense" roads to predict road hazards, is a significant component of driving skills that correlate with vehicle accident involvement. Another past study also found that the concealed unmaterialized hazards, for example, a road user who is obscured behind a parked vehicle but did not cross the road or a road user standing on the curb and visible to the driver but not entering the road, are possible sources of danger that are typically obscured by other road users [14]. MNL model -M43.…”

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Investigating Motorists Perceptions towards Road Safety

Dewi¹

2021

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Exploring motorist attitudes and perceptions will aid in decision makers' awareness of road safety measures, allowing for the creation of policies and the introduction of effective steps to ensure that the road safety goals are met. This study aims to explore motorists' perceptions towards road safety and to come up with new ways to enhance road traffic safety in developing cities. The self-reporting questionnaires using a Likert scale were used to collect data from respondents in Denpasar, Bali Island. Using motorist perception data, the multinomial logit models were constructed to classify the factors that affect road traffic accidents. This study discovered that intersections are a high-risk area for road traffic accidents. Gaining a deeper understanding of motorist behavior at intersections will aid in the creation of a better design that meets motorist expectations when approaching an intersection. Furthermore, the ability to ‗read' roads to predict hazards is a vital component of driving abilities that has been related to road traffic accidents. The key causes of traffic accidents were also discovered to be disobedient conduct and reckless driving. Based on these results, some countermeasures for improving road traffic safety in Bali were discussed with an emphasis on engineering and education perspectives.

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“…Many research papers have examined the ability of children to perceive danger [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ] or children’s behaviors related to traffic safety [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. Such studies aim to examine children’s capacity to understand traffic danger and resulting behavior such as when to cross.…”

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Objective and Perceived Traffic Safety for Children: A Systematic Literature Review of Traffic and Built Environment Characteristics Related to Safe Travel

Amiour

Waygood

Berg

2022

IJERPH

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The literature on children’s active transportation has shown the influence of the built environment characteristics on walking and crashes. Various reviews have examined those two questions. One influence on walking is the perception of traffic safety. However, it is not clear how, or even if, the built environment affects such perceptions. This research aims to understand which traffic and built environment characteristics influence objective and subjective/perceived traffic safety for children based on the analysis of previous studies in the field. Two types of research were used: the first examines the association between traffic and built environment characteristics and child pedestrian and/or cyclist collisions/injuries; the second relates to the perception of safety by parents and children for active transportation and, where studied, its relationship with built environment characteristics. A systematic review was conducted using five electronic databases. The total number of articles retrieved was reduced to 38 following the eligibility criteria and quality assessment, where 25 articles relate to injuries among children and 13 articles pertain to perception of safety. The results showed that high traffic volume and high vehicle speed are the main reasons children and parents feel unsafe when children use active travel, which matches the main findings on objective safety. Few articles on perception of safety related to the objective built environment were found. However, consistent findings exist. The presence of sidewalk was related to the safety of children. The presence of a crossing guard was positively related to perceived safety but was associated with higher rates of injuries among children. Intersection density was related to unsafe perceptions but was not statistically associated with objective traffic safety. Additionally, population density was found to be positively related to injuries among children, but not to perception of safety. The results help policy strategy to enhance the safety of children when using active transport modes.

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Understanding complex traffic road scenes: The case of child-pedestrians’ hazard perception

Cited by 26 publications

References 43 publications

Development of Models for Children—Pedestrian Crossing Speed at Signalized Crosswalks

Development of Models for Children—Pedestrian Crossing Speed at Signalized Crosswalks

Investigating Motorists Perceptions towards Road Safety

Objective and Perceived Traffic Safety for Children: A Systematic Literature Review of Traffic and Built Environment Characteristics Related to Safe Travel

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