Automated Pedestrian Detection, Count and Analysis System

016515802015PDFTech Report527-14-803Agreement Number P527-14-803Acct #2331-254-789KData collectionData processingLiterature reviewsPedestrian countsPedestrian safetyCHAR10Bicycle safetyPedestrian-vehicle conflictsVideo dataPedestrians and BicyclistsSafety and Human FactorsUnited StatesNevada. Dept. of TransportationMuthukumar, VenkiMorris, BrendanRegentova, EmmaPaz, AlexanderBreen, ErinShirazi, MohammadShahraki, Farideh ForoozandehLan, MinParker, MatthewUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas. Transportation Research CenterNevada. Dept. of TransportationUS Transportation CollectionPedestrian and bicycle count data is necessary for transportation planning, implementing safety countermeasures, and traffic management. This data is critical when evaluating the pedestrian level of service of safety (LOSS) and pedestrian safety performance function (SPF). Also, a performance analysis tool with both vehicle and pedestrian data is required to comprehensively analyze intersection safety. The goals of this project are to: i. Develop a pedestrian-bicycle count automated system. ii. Develop a pedestrian-vehicle conflict detection system. iii. Collect data of pedestrians, bicycles and pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. iv. Develop a database and analysis tools based FHWA recommended safety tools to do analysis and visualization of data to select and evaluate pedestrian-bicycle safety countermeasures. The primary goal of the proposed research is to develop an automated system/framework that detects and counts pedestrians, generates pedestrian flow characteristics, and evaluates pedestrian-vehicle conflicts for a given pedestrian crossing to improve safety The proposed research will also develop a database system for safety analysis tool to perform network screening and countermeasure selection modules. The database will include typical intersection analysis data plus pedestrian and bicycle counts and conflict data. This document is the first quarterly progress report for this project. This progress report discusses the research tasks, presents the project schedule, gives a brief summary of progress, and presents results of the literature review