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Pedestrians

An Equity-Driven Approach To School Zone Safety To Inform Safe Routes To School (SRTS) Programs

Even as the trends in traffic fatalities for motorists have been improving, vulnerable road users (VRUs, specifically pedestrians and bicyclists) have seen an alarming rise in fatalities in recent years. According to the Center for Disease Control, injuries from road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death for children under the age of 10, hence a critical public health issue. School-age pedestrians in lower-income neighborhoods may be particularly at risk.

Assisting Vision-Impaired Pedestrians To Cross Streets: An Innovative Acoustic Ranging Approach

This project aims to leverage innovative techniques to develop an intelligent system that assists blind pedestrians to decide when it is safe to cross streets, especially at the uncontrolled crossing locations, where neither traffic lights nor STOP signs are available. While great social resources have been designated to install the Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) at intersections to provide guidance instructions to people with visual impairments, it is economically infeasible to equip all intersections/walkways across the nation with such infrastructures.