I-Corps: Improving pedestrian visibility and safety through passive detection and direct illumination at crossings

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发一种更有效、更便宜的行人安全装置，这将有助于减少每年发生在人行横道上的数千起行人死亡和数十万起行人碰撞事件。先前的研究表明，现有交通措施在确保行人安全方面的潜在缺陷是地理和文化上独特的。为了制定和部署交通措施，有必要了解各种生态和文化气候下社区所经历的问题和限制。 特别是拟议中的人行横道创新，有效地减少和消除行人死亡。城市生活的质量取决于考虑的是步行性，而步行性又取决于行人的安全。这个I-Corps项目的基础是开发一种技术，通过被动检测和直接照明十字路口的行人，提高行人能见度和安全。被动行人探测系统将提供实时确定性的行人交通和模式数据。 这些数据将提高城市规划者对交通环境的科学认识。与自动驾驶汽车连接的人行横道网络将增强规划者对智能城市基础设施所需脚手架的技术理解。随着城市变得越来越繁忙和拥挤，步行的自由度，充足性和可达性成为一个重要的问题。安全感和在人行横道上的安全对于未来的交通健康至关重要。鼓励技术，使行人可见的交通系统可能最终导致可行的，适合步行的社区。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a more effective and less expensive pedestrian safety device that will help reduce the thousands of pedestrian deaths and hundreds of thousands of pedestrian collisions that occur in crosswalks each year. Previous research has demonstrated that the underlying shortcomings of existing traffic measures in ensuring pedestrian safety are geographically and culturally unique. An understanding of the issues and constraints experienced by communities across a wide variety of ecological and cultural climates is necessary in order to develop and deploy traffic measures. Specifically the proposed crosswalk innovation, that effectively works to reduce and eliminate pedestrian deaths. The quality of city life depends under consideration is walkability, which in turn relies on pedestrian safety. This I-Corps project is based on the development of a technology that improves pedestrian visibility and safety through passive detection and direct illumination of pedestrians at crossings. The passive pedestrian detection system will provide real-time deterministic pedestrian traffic and pattern data. Such data will enhance urban planners’ scientific understanding of the transportation environment. Crosswalk networks interfaced with autonomous vehicles will enhance planners’ technological understanding of the scaffolding needed for smart city infrastructure. As cities become more hectic and congested, the freedom, adequacy, and accessibility of walkability becomes an important issue. Feeling safe and being safe on a crosswalk is vital for the future transportation health. Encouraging technology that makes pedestrians visible to the traffic system may ultimately lead to viable, walkable communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.