NEW WAYS TO MEASURE SAFETY
Streets are designed for vehicle efficiency. Engineers reference vehicle-based codes, use detailed models to optimize traffic flow, and conduct driving simulator evaluations before implementing design. A constraint, rather than a design variable, is pedestrian and cyclist safety, as street designers currently lack the ability to quantify and test safety prior to construction. Collecting this missing data is at best challenging and expensive, and at worst, unsafe.
The Center for Safe Mobility fills this gap by using eye tracking technology to collect and study the user-based perspective. Our research informs new metrics for defining and understanding safety, and will transform how street designers understand, measure, and implement safety interventions.
The Center for Safe Mobility fills this gap by using eye tracking technology to collect and study the user-based perspective. Our research informs new metrics for defining and understanding safety, and will transform how street designers understand, measure, and implement safety interventions.
Photo credit © 2017 Thomas Orgren.
