Explainable, automated urban interventions to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11672v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:17:39 GMT
• Title: Explainable, automated urban interventions to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety
• Authors: Cristina Bustos, Daniel Rhoads, Albert Sole-Ribalta, David Masip, Alex Arenas, Agata Lapedriza, Javier Borge-Holthoefer
• Abstract summary: This paper combines public data sources, large-scale street imagery and computer vision techniques to approach pedestrian and vehicle safety. The steps involved in this pipeline include the adaptation and training of a Residual Convolutional Neural Network to determine a hazard index for each given urban scene. The outcome of this computational approach is a fine-grained map of hazard levels across a city, and an identify interventions that might simultaneously improve pedestrian and vehicle safety.
• Score: 0.8620335948752805
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: At the moment, urban mobility research and governmental initiatives are mostly focused on motor-related issues, e.g. the problems of congestion and pollution. And yet, we can not disregard the most vulnerable elements in the urban landscape: pedestrians, exposed to higher risks than other road users. Indeed, safe, accessible, and sustainable transport systems in cities are a core target of the UN's 2030 Agenda. Thus, there is an opportunity to apply advanced computational tools to the problem of traffic safety, in regards especially to pedestrians, who have been often overlooked in the past. This paper combines public data sources, large-scale street imagery and computer vision techniques to approach pedestrian and vehicle safety with an automated, relatively simple, and universally-applicable data-processing scheme. The steps involved in this pipeline include the adaptation and training of a Residual Convolutional Neural Network to determine a hazard index for each given urban scene, as well as an interpretability analysis based on image segmentation and class activation mapping on those same images. Combined, the outcome of this computational approach is a fine-grained map of hazard levels across a city, and an heuristic to identify interventions that might simultaneously improve pedestrian and vehicle safety. The proposed framework should be taken as a complement to the work of urban planners and public authorities.

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