Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians?: To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety

Hector Monterde-i-Bort; Socrates Basbas; Charlotta Johansson; Lars Leden; Per Gårder

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1

Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians? To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety

Hector Monterde-i-Bort
, Socrates Basbas^*
, Charlotta Johansson
, Lars Leden
, Per Gårder

^*Corresponding author for this work

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility CSUM2018
Editors	Eftihia G. Nathanail, Ioannis D. Karakikes
Publisher	Springer
Pages	3-10
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-02305-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-02304-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM 2018 - Skiathos Island, Greece Duration: 24 May 2018 → 25 May 2018

Publication series

Series	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	879
ISSN	2194-5357

Conference

Conference	4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM 2018
Abbreviated title	CSUM 2018
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Skiathos Island
Period	24/05/18 → 25/05/18

Funding

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].

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

eSafety
Information technologies
Intelligent transportation systems
Pedestrians
Traffic safety

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1

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Monterde-i-Bort, H., Basbas, S., Johansson, C., Leden, L., & Gårder, P. (2019). Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians? To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety. In E. G. Nathanail, & I. D. Karakikes (Eds.), Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility: Proceedings of 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility CSUM2018 (pp. 3-10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1

Monterde-i-Bort, Hector ; Basbas, Socrates ; Johansson, Charlotta et al. / Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians? To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety. Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility: Proceedings of 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility CSUM2018. editor / Eftihia G. Nathanail ; Ioannis D. Karakikes. Springer, 2019. pp. 3-10 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 879).

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Monterde-i-Bort, H, Basbas, S, Johansson, C, Leden, L & Gårder, P 2019, Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians? To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety. in EG Nathanail & ID Karakikes (eds), Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility: Proceedings of 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility CSUM2018. Springer, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 879, pp. 3-10, 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM 2018, Skiathos Island, Greece, 24/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_1

Have information technologies forgotten pedestrians? To what extent can it/its improve Pedestrian’s mobility and safety. / Monterde-i-Bort, Hector; Basbas, Socrates; Johansson, Charlotta et al.
Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility: Proceedings of 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility CSUM2018. ed. / Eftihia G. Nathanail; Ioannis D. Karakikes. Springer, 2019. p. 3-10 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 879).

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