Shared Connectivity for Safer Shared Space Facilities: Improving mobility for non-motorized and vulnerable Road-Users

The research team focuses on an important and unique application of MANETs in transportation; shared-space facilities MANETs for Active Mobility. In those facilities, mobility models must account for the connectivity and communication patterns between pedestrians and cyclists. The team proposes a mobility model that takes into consideration the heterogeneity of movement patterns of pedestrians and cyclists. This formalism represents a realistic approach that accounts for road-users reasoning and their rational decision-making process. The team will validate the main properties of the network protocols in a simulation setting that models the tight interactions between road users and their communication devices. The team will implement a proof-of-concept simulator with applications for traffic safety, and the effect of bicycle-pedestrian interactions on the operation of MANETs. This application will be timely as University of Central Florida (UCF) has recently been awarded with Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) an ATCMTD grant from FHWA to test various safety technologies on the UCF campus.

• Record URL:
  http://safersim.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/research_new.php?sp=75
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Received 6 mo. no-cost extension due to COVID-19

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $50000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747131

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  University of Iowa, Iowa City

  National Advanced Driving Simulator, 2401 Oakdale Blvd
  Iowa City, IA  United States  52242-5003
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Central Florida, Orlando

  Department of Civil, Environmental & Contruction Engineering
  1280 Pegasus Drive, 442B Engineering II
  Orlando, FL  United States  32816
• Principal Investigators:

  Zaki, Mohamed

• Start Date: 20190901
• Expected Completion Date: 20210630
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Connected vehicles; Cyclists; Mobility; Nonmotorized transportation; Pedestrians; Simulation; Traffic safety; Vulnerable road users
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01698999
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Safety Research Using Simulation University Transportation Center (SaferSim)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747131
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Mar 20 2019 9:10AM