Abstract At the moment, urban mobility research and governmental initiatives are mostly focused on motor-related issues, e.g. the problems of congestion and pollution. And yet, we cannot disregard the most vulnerable elements in the urban landscape: pedestrians, exposed to higher risks than other road users. Indeed, safe, accessible, and sustainable transport systems in cities are a core target of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Thus, there is an opportunity to apply advanced computational tools to the problem of traffic safety, in regards especially to pedestrians, who have been often overlooked in the past. This paper combines public data sources, large-scale street imagery and computer vision techniques to approach pedestrian and vehicle safety with an automated, relatively simple, and universally-applicable data-processing scheme. The steps involved in this pipeline include the adaptation and training of a Residual Convolutional Neural Network to determine a hazard index for each given urban scene, as well as an interpretability analysis based on image segmentation and class activation mapping on those same images. Combined, the outcome of this computational approach is a fine-grained map of hazard levels across a city, and an heuristic to identify interventions that might simultaneously improve pedestrian and vehicle safety. The proposed framework should be taken as a complement to the work of urban planners and public authorities.

    Highlights Deep learning has seldom been used in pedestrian safety. We lay out of fine-grained map of vehicle and pedestrian hazard levels across a city. We relate hazard index and image composition introducing a measure of scene disorder. We propose an heuristic towards urban interventions to increase pedestrian safety.


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    Titel :

    Explainable, automated urban interventions to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety


    Beteiligte:
    Bustos, C. (Autor:in) / Rhoads, D. (Autor:in) / Solé-Ribalta, A. (Autor:in) / Masip, D. (Autor:in) / Arenas, A. (Autor:in) / Lapedriza, A. (Autor:in) / Borge-Holthoefer, J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-02-05




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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