Pedestrian Auditory Situational Awareness: Tesseract Crosswalk Module

Driver and environmental factors, perceptual limitations, and distractions typically dictate how vulnerable pedestrians are while crossing the street at signalized or unsignalized crosswalks. The series of research supported through Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility (CATM) funding seeks to systematically investigate critical factors associated with unsafe crosswalk activities. First, naturalistic observations of pedestrians performing street crossing on a rural higher education campus informed the develop of a 1:1 physical and virtual crosswalk testbed used to study pedestrian auditory situation awareness (ASA) with personal listening devices (PLD). Thereafter, the investigation of intervention technologies for low-vision pedestrians is ongoing to better understand how to design human-machine interfaces for implementing appropriate countermeasures to reduce pedestrian distractions at crosswalks. Lastly, a mobile testbed is to be developed for remote education and training of safe street crossings.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $147599
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747125

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility

  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  Greensboro, NC  United States  27411

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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

  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
  3500 Transportation Research Plaza
  Blacksburg, VA  United States  24061

  North Carolina A&T State University

  1601 E. Market Street
  Greensboro, NC  United States  27411
• Project Managers:

  Patrick, Rafael

• Performing Organizations:

  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
  3500 Transportation Research Plaza
  Blacksburg, VA  United States  24061
• Principal Investigators:

  Patrick, Rafael

• Start Date: 20230701
• Expected Completion Date: 20231231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Awareness; Crosswalks; Distraction; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian safety; Visually impaired persons
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01893163
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747125
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 13 2023 1:11PM