This paper analyzes crossing the street as a form of communication between pedestrians and drivers, who are participants characterized by different types of mobility, and distinct rights and obligations. Based on video recordings of couples having a stroll in an urban environment, the analyses focus ...
you risk getting slammed by a car behind you that's turning right. Sidewalk riding also makes you vulnerable to cars pulling out of parking lots or driveways. And you're threatening to pedestrians on the sidewalk, who could get hurt if you hit them. These kinds of accidents are hard to ...
1、According to the estimation, how many pedestrians will use that walkway in a year? 2、According to the passage, what’s the difference will the visitors notice at the largest urban mall this summer? 3、What are the squares designed to ? 4、Where is the power generated from? 5、Who ...
Alexandra Appolonia
it’s surprising to see how many people don’t have helmets, especially riding around a city where there’s so many pedestrians you’ve got to avoid, other cyclists, other cars is very dangerous. I think that the market certainly exists for someone to come in and help solve that problem...
While drunken driving may be on the decline, traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcohol related danger: drunken pedestrians(行人). Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact, they are intoxicated more frequently, and with higher blood...
Jaguar wants to teach autonomous cars how to talk to pedestrians. After testing creepy eyes, it has switched to a technology which beams light bars on the ground that move to signal the car is stopping, turning, or accelerating. Communication is key to m
For a successful transition to car-free (or drastically car-reduced) cities, we need better infrastructure. Safe, physically separate bike lanes, rule changes that favor cyclists and pedestrians over cars, ample parking, and more. In Berlin, for instance, there are bike lanes on most major rou...
Israeli forces invaded Gaza in late October. By mid-November, they were getting close to Zahra's home. One day from the window of her building, Zahra says she saw at least four pedestrians and two cars carrying families blown up without warning as they tried to cross the street. ...
In shared space zones the various traffic modalities (pedestrians, cyclists and motorised traffic) are deliberately not separated by the design of the infrastructure. Conventional structures, such as road signs, traffic lights, level differences or road markings are scarce (Havik, Melis-Dankers, ...