TY - GEN
T1 - Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians?
T2 - 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM 2018
AU - Monterde-i-Bort, Hector
AU - Basbas, Socrates
AU - Johansson, Charlotta
AU - Leden, Lars
AU - Gårder, Per
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been developed within the framework of the PQN (Pedes-trian Quality Needs) project (2006–2010) under auspices of the European Science Foundation (ESF), COST Action 358, EU RTD Framework Programme [23].
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work has been developed within the framework of the PQN (Pedestrian Quality Needs) project (2006–2010) under auspices of the European Science Foundation (ESF), COST Action 358, EU RTD Framework Programme [23].
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Worldwide, pedestrians make up close to half of all motor-vehicle related fatalities but disproportionally little of the research in Information Technologies (IT) in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in particular has aimed at pedestrian safety improvements. This paper analyses and compiles three different ways so that IT and ITS can be used in order to improve mobility and safety of pedestrians in urban spaces: (a) for contacting and/or being localized, (b) for guidance (leading/navigating), (c) for alerting or informing of a danger. The aim is to categorize recent experiences where ITS can improve pedestrians’ mobility and safety so that new ideas based on ITS will be developed. These new ideas will better meet pedestrians’ functional quality needs today as well as in the future in a society with an aging population and aging infrastructure. This is very important for a society where people will not accept high fatality risks. The most important developments are described with links to websites in which one can gather more information. Target groups of this paper are professionals working in the field of traffic planning; practitioners, planners and researchers.
AB - Worldwide, pedestrians make up close to half of all motor-vehicle related fatalities but disproportionally little of the research in Information Technologies (IT) in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in particular has aimed at pedestrian safety improvements. This paper analyses and compiles three different ways so that IT and ITS can be used in order to improve mobility and safety of pedestrians in urban spaces: (a) for contacting and/or being localized, (b) for guidance (leading/navigating), (c) for alerting or informing of a danger. The aim is to categorize recent experiences where ITS can improve pedestrians’ mobility and safety so that new ideas based on ITS will be developed. These new ideas will better meet pedestrians’ functional quality needs today as well as in the future in a society with an aging population and aging infrastructure. This is very important for a society where people will not accept high fatality risks. The most important developments are described with links to websites in which one can gather more information. Target groups of this paper are professionals working in the field of traffic planning; practitioners, planners and researchers.
KW - eSafety
KW - Information technologies
KW - Intelligent transportation systems
KW - Pedestrians
KW - Traffic safety
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058984713&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85058984713
SN - 978-3-030-02304-1
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 3
EP - 10
BT - Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility
A2 - Nathanail, Eftihia G.
A2 - Karakikes, Ioannis D.
PB - Springer
Y2 - 24 May 2018 through 25 May 2018
ER -
