A Data-Driven Approach to Transportation Equity: Acquiring a dataset of heterogeneous pedestrian crossing profiles

The project’s goal is to collect a dataset of heterogeneous pedestrian crossing profiles in New York City. The research team intends to do so by deploying high-resolution, high-frame-rate audiovisual sensors at intersections in the city. Unlike past attempts, the data collection process will focus on optimizing the resulting dataset to represent a diverse population of pedestrians at different ability levels. Furthermore, the research team will collect data representing different environmental conditions (sunny and rainy days) and various traffic infrastructures (presence or lack of curb ramps, presence or lack of clearly-painted crosswalks, and timing of traffic lights, among other factors described in this project). By exploring these differences, the research team hopes to accomplish a more accurate profiling of users (motorized and not) of all mobility levels at these intersections and allow comparison of crossing behavior across underrepresented groups, such as people with limited walking ability. This profiling will then serve for data-driven insights to improve safety, flow, and accessibility in these urban environments.

• Record URL:
  https://c2smarter.engineering.nyu.edu/a-datadriven-approach-to-transportation-equity-acquiring-a-dataset-of-heterogeneous-pedestrian-crossing-profiles/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $75881
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747124

• 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:

  Connected Communities for Smart Mobility Towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion (C2SMARTER)

  New York University
  Brooklyn, New York  United States  11201
• Project Managers:

  Pohl, Lizzie

  Chase, Holly

• Performing Organizations:

  Connected Communities for Smart Mobility Towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion (C2SMARTER)

  New York University
  Brooklyn, New York  United States  11201

  New York University Tandon School of Engineering

  6 Metrotech Center
  Brooklyn, NY  United States  11201

  University of Washington, Seattle

  Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
  201 More Hall, Box 352700
  Seattle, WA  United States  98195-2700

  University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1720
• Principal Investigators:

  Silva, Claudio

  Froehlich, Jon

• Start Date: 20240901
• Expected Completion Date: 20251130
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crosswalks; Data collection; Intersections; Multimodal transportation; Pedestrian movement; Transportation equity
• Geographic Terms: New York City
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01937755
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Connected Communities for Smart Mobility Towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion (C2SMARTER)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747124
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 21 2024 5:16PM