期刊
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
卷 48, 期 -, 页码 143-157出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2014.08.018
关键词
Older drivers; Bicycle path; Safe path; Safety indicator; Multi-objective function
This paper presents a safety-based path finding methodology for older drivers and bicyclists in an urban area. The paths are estimated based on costs consisting of both safety and travel time. Safety is evaluated against potential risk of a crash involving an older driver (or a bicyclist) with other vehicles present on the road. To accomplish this, simple formulations are developed for safety indicators of streets and intersections, which are actually generic irrespective of the type of road user. Traffic attributes such as speed and density, driver attributes such as perception-reaction time and street attributes of length and tire-to-road friction coefficient are taken into account in building the safety indicators. Thus, the safety indicators do not necessarily require historical crash data which may or may not be available during path finding. Subsequently, a multi-objective shortest path algorithm is presented that identifies the best path (the non-inferior path) from amongst a set of selected safest paths with due considerations to travel time incurred on each. A simple application example of the proposed methodology is demonstrated on an existing street network system from the City of College Station, Texas. The contributions of this research are twofold - first, the safety indicators can be used by planners in determining high crash potential sites - streets and/or intersections - and second, the safety-based path finding methodology developed in this paper can be integrated with modern day route planning devices and tools in guiding older drivers and bicyclists within an Intelligent Transportation Systems framework. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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