Distracted walking: Examining the extent to pedestrian safety problems

Mwakalonge, Judith; Siuhi, Saidi; White, Jamario

doi:10.1016/j.jtte.2015.08.004

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“…al, [5] whereby mobile phone distraction may cause less pay attention to traffic both before and during crossing. As the result using talking on the phone -auditory distracted, it can cause pedestrians to miss significant objects in their environment and appear to exhibit unsafe behavior (failure to look right and left, wait on curb for light turn to green before cross [15]. One of the main reason pedestrian's accident while crossing is due to long time to cross safely.…”

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Prevalence of distracted pedestrians while crossing: a study of Malaysia’s situation

Syazwan

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Zarifah³

et al. 2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Pedestrian's crashes account for approximately 7% of road death in Malaysia. Even though the percentage is smaller compared to motorcycle-related crashes, amount of road crashes involving pedestrians in Malaysia is a serious concern. The objective of this study is to establish the common type of distraction for Malaysian. Crashes among pedestrians usually highly recorded at straight road followed by inter-section road type. For that, study focusing on the type of distraction among pedestrians while crossing the road by using video recording method. Two type of road were selected observational field survey -signalized and non-signalized intersection. A video recording method was used to analyse the behaviour of pedestrians crossing with or without distraction. Approximately 375 samples were observed while crossing with various type of distraction such as eating, texting, mobile phone talking and others. The study found the highest distraction type observed among pedestrians is usage of electronic equipment-mobile phone with 84.8% followed by other type of distraction -smoking and talking with more that 5%. Mobile phone distraction cause a significant effect in term of time to cross which average time to cross was 14.77 second. The overall results provide a prevalence information that is useful in the development of countermeasures aimed at improving pedestrians' safety.

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence of distracted pedestrians while crossing: a study of Malaysia’s situation

Syazwan

Baba

Zarifah³

et al. 2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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“…How pedestrians and vehicles interact is, however, still not fully understood. It is known that these interactions are complex and often affected by various factors ( Figure 1 ) such as: vehicle speed and time to collision (Várhelyi, 1998; Sun et al, 2015; Schneemann and Gohl, 2016), traffic density and size of the gap between the vehicles (Wang et al, 2010), road features such as geometry and signs (Knoblauch et al, 1996), weather and light conditions (Sun et al, 2015), crossing speed (Knoblauch et al, 1996), presence and behavior of other road users (Rosenbloom, 2009; Zhou et al, 2009), demographics of drivers and pedestrians (Oxley et al, 2005; Lobjois and Cavallo, 2007; Tom and Granié, 2011), as well as their experiences, knowledge, motivations, and cognitive state (Mwakalonge et al, 2015). In addition, expectations and feelings of safety or insecurity affect the way the interactions develop (Zhou et al, 2009; Malmsten Lundgren et al, 2017; Sucha et al, 2017).…”

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Communicating Intent of Automated Vehicles to Pedestrians

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While traffic signals, signs, and road markings provide explicit guidelines for those operating in and around the roadways, some decisions, such as determinations of “who will go first,” are made by implicit negotiations between road users. In such situations, pedestrians are today often dependent on cues in drivers’ behavior such as eye contact, postures, and gestures. With the introduction of more automated functions and the transfer of control from the driver to the vehicle, pedestrians cannot rely on such non-verbal cues anymore. To study how the interaction between pedestrians and automated vehicles (AVs) might look like in the future, and how this might be affected if AVs were to communicate their intent to pedestrians, we designed an external vehicle interface called automated vehicle interaction principle (AVIP) that communicates vehicles’ mode and intent to pedestrians. The interaction was explored in two experiments using a Wizard of Oz approach to simulate automated driving. The first experiment was carried out at a zebra crossing and involved nine pedestrians. While it focused mainly on assessing the usability of the interface, it also revealed initial indications related to pedestrians’ emotions and perceived safety when encountering an AV with/without the interface. The second experiment was carried out in a parking lot and involved 24 pedestrians, which enabled a more detailed assessment of pedestrians’ perceived safety when encountering an AV, both with and without the interface. For comparison purposes, these pedestrians also encountered a conventional vehicle. After a short training course, the interface was deemed easy for the pedestrians to interpret. The pedestrians stated that they felt significantly less safe when they encountered the AV without the interface, compared to the conventional vehicle and the AV with the interface. This suggests that the interface could contribute to a positive experience and improved perceived safety in pedestrian encounters with AVs – something that might be important for general acceptance of AVs. As such, this topic should be further investigated in future studies involving a larger sample and more dynamic conditions.

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“…It should also be considered that as well as deaf people, many individuals, voluntarily or not, are subject to auditory distraction as a result of hearing high intensity sounds, which can cause the pedestrian/driver to lose focus [26][27][28][29] .…”

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A inclusão de surdos no trânsito

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RESUMO: Objetivo: investigar como se dá o processo de inclusão de surdos no cenário do trânsito. Métodos: participaram do estudo 20 sujeitos, divididos em três grupos: G1, composto por 10 surdos; G2 composto por cinco profissionais de uma instituição de referência em assistência a sujeitos com necessidades educacionais específicas e G3 composto por cinco profissionais de um Departamento Estadual de Trânsito. Foram aplicadas entrevistas gravadas em áudio e vídeo, cujas respostas foram analisadas por meio do software Qualiquantisoft e aquelas com sentido semelhante foram reunidas para a construção de discursos do sujeito coletivo, tendo como base o método proposto por Lefèvre e Lefèvre. Resultados: os discursos do sujeito coletivo apontam para dificuldades na acessibilidade de surdos no trânsito e no processo de obtenção e renovação da carteira nacional de habilitação. De uma forma geral, todos os grupos apontaram sugestões como: a necessidade de intérprete para mediar o processo, a capacitação de profissionais para atenderem surdos e a realização da prova teórica em Libras, utilizando recursos de vídeo. Conclusão: embora haja avanços, há inúmeras falhas no que se trata da acessibilidade de pessoas surdas tanto no processo de obtenção/renovação da carteira nacional de habilitação quanto no trânsito. Portanto, é urgente que seja discutida a realidade enfrentada por essa população, visando soluções que possam garantir aos surdos não apenas o acesso ao trânsito, mas também a construção e adequada execução de políticas públicas que venham a lhes fornecer acessibilidade e segurança.

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Distracted walking: Examining the extent to pedestrian safety problems

Cited by 82 publications

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Prevalence of distracted pedestrians while crossing: a study of Malaysia’s situation

Prevalence of distracted pedestrians while crossing: a study of Malaysia’s situation

Communicating Intent of Automated Vehicles to Pedestrians

A inclusão de surdos no trânsito

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