@article{ref1,
title="Investigating the practical viability of walk-sharing in improving pedestrian safety",
journal="Computational urban science",
year="2021",
author="Bhowmick, Debjit and Winter, Stephan and Stevenson, Mark and Vortisch, Peter",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="e21-e21",
abstract="Walk-sharing is a cost-effective and proactive approach that promises to improve pedestrian safety and has been shown to be technically (theoretically) viable. Yet, the practical viability of walk-sharing is largely dependent on community acceptance, which has not, until now, been explored. Gaining useful insights on the community's spatio-temporal and social preferences in regard to walk-sharing will ensure the establishment of practical viability of walk-sharing in a real-world urban scenario. We aim to derive practical viability using defined performance metrics (waiting time, detour distance, walk-alone distance and matching rate) and by investigating the effectiveness of walk-sharing in terms of its major objective of improving pedestrian safety and safety perception. We make use of the results from a web-based survey on the public perception on our proposed walk-sharing scheme. <br><br>FINDINGS are fed into an existing agent-based walk-sharing model to investigate the performance of walk-sharing and deduce its practical viability in urban scenarios.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2730-6852",
doi="10.1007/s43762-021-00020-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00020-z"
}