By Michael Manser Pedestrian dangers are nothing new. To traverse city streets a century ago, pedestrians had to navigate a gauntlet of cars, bicycles, horse-drawn buggies, trucks and streetcars, typically unencumbered by expectations that they do so at designated crosswalks. But city streets have changed dramatically since then, as have all of the vehicular dynamics […]
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Distracted Pedestrians Create Unique Challenges for Researchers
An undergraduate student researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently conducted a project that took a unique spin on the distractions involved with mobile devices. Instead of distracted driving, George Gillette studied distracted pedestrians. “At the beginning of summer 2015, Dr. (Kay) Fitzpatrick pitched to me a couple of interesting fields of research […]
Teens in the Driver Seat® “Zero Crazy!” Activity Seeks to Reduce Distracted Driving Among Teens
Every day teens take their eyes off the road to tweet, text, snapchat, or post to the Internet. In 2013, 3,154 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers. According to NHTSA and the US Department of Transportation, drivers under the age of 20 made up 27 percent (about 850) of the distracted […]
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