Tag: pedestrian

Reflecting on 2023: Transit challenges, celebrations, a push for pedestrian safety

A few notable celebrations occurred this year. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officially marked the opening of the long-awaited Central Subway (a soft opening took place in November of last year). Regardless of individual opinions on the project, such as concerns about b...

Steering Safer Streets: The Role of AI and Synthetic Data in Understanding Pedestrian Behavior

Imagine a world where cars drive themselves, smoothly navigating through streets filled with pedestrians. But how do these cars know what a person on the street might do next? This is where the paper “Synthetic Data Generation Framework, Dataset, and Efficient Deep Model for Pedestrian Intenti...

Case Study: AR interfaces for automated vehicle-pedestrian interactions

In my last article I had highlighted the outcomes of an interview I conducted with experts on the future urban environment. More specifically, about the introduction of self-driving vehicles in everyday traffic, and the how these driverless robots will communicate with the other road users...