| Literature DB >> 27242989 |
J Aaron Hipp1, Alicia Manteiga2, Amanda Burgess2, Abby Stylianou3, Robert Pless3.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Active transportation opportunities and infrastructure are an important component of a community's design, livability, and health. Features of the built environment influence active transportation, but objective study of the natural experiment effects of built environment improvements on active transportation is challenging. The purpose of this study was to develop and present a novel method of active transportation research using webcams and crowdsourcing, and to determine if crosswalk enhancement was associated with changes in active transportation rates, including across a variety of weather conditions.Entities:
Keywords: active transportation; bicyclist detection; built environment; crosswalks; crowdsourcing; pedestrian detection; webcams
Year: 2016 PMID: 27242989 PMCID: PMC4871890 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00097
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Public Health ISSN: 2296-2565
Figure 1Residential intersection prior to (left) and following (right) built environment change.
Figure 2Commercial intersection prior to (left) and following (right) built environment change.
Number of images with pedestrians and bicyclists before and after crosswalk enhancement.
| Outcome | Number of images | Images with pedestrians or bicyclists | Pre-crosswalk: number of images with pedestrians or bicyclists (%) | Post-crosswalk: number of images with pedestrians or bicyclists (%) | |
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| Pedestrians | 9,966 | 635 (6.37) | 298 (6.01) | 337 (6.73) | 0.14 |
| Weekday | 7,231 | 500 (6.91) | 233 (6.19) | 267 (7.36) | 0.14 |
| Weekend | 2,735 | 135 (4.94) | 65 (4.79) | 70 (5.08) | 0.73 |
| Bicyclists | 9,966 | 135 (1.35) | 79 (1.59) | 86 (1.72) | 0.63 |
| Weekday | 7,231 | 120 (1.66) | 50 (1.39) | 70 (1.93) | 0.07 |
| Weekend | 2,735 | 45 (1.65) | 29 (2.14) | 16 (1.16) | |
| Pedestrians | 10,563 | 7,273 (68.85) | 3,658 (69.73) | 3,615 (67.99) | 0.05 |
| Weekday | 7,599 | 5,412 (71.22) | 2,727 (72.28) | 2,685 (70.18) | |
| Weekend | 2,964 | 1,861 (62.79) | 931 (63.20) | 930 (62.37) | 0.64 |
| Bicyclists | 10,563 | 1,146 (10.85) | 581 (11.08) | 565 (10.63) | 0.46 |
| Weekday | 7,599 | 844 (11.11) | 439 (11.64) | 405 (10.59) | 0.15 |
| Weekend | 2,964 | 302 (10.19) | 142 (9.64) | 160 (10.73) | 0.33 |
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Figure 3Number of pedestrians per image across temperature.
Pedestrian and bicyclist presence at various temperatures, by intersection.
| Temperature | Transportation mode | Number of images | Number of images with pedestrians/bicyclists (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| <50 | Pedestrians | 238 | 24 (10.08) |
| Bicyclists | 1 (0.42) | ||
| 50–62 | Pedestrians | 395 | 26 (6.58) |
| Bicyclists | 7 (1.77) | ||
| 62–86 | Pedestrians | 2,747 | 226 (8.23) |
| Bicyclists | 54 (1.97) | ||
| 86–98 | Pedestrians | 499 | 37 (7.41) |
| Bicyclists | 17 (3.41) | ||
| >98 | Pedestrians | 4 | 0 (0.00) |
| Bicyclists | 0 (0.00) | ||
| <50 | Pedestrians | 255 | 168 (65.88) |
| Bicyclists | 26 (10.20) | ||
| 50–62 | Pedestrians | 419 | 289 (68.97) |
| Bicyclists | 57 (13.60) | ||
| 62–86 | Pedestrians | 2,961 | 2,135 (72.10) |
| Bicyclists | 376 (12.70) | ||
| 86–98 | Pedestrians | 545 | 392 (71.93) |
| Bicyclists | 61 (11.19) | ||
| >98 | Pedestrians | 4 | 1 (25.00) |
| Bicyclists | 1 (25.00) | ||
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Number of images with pedestrians and bicyclists before and after crosswalk enhancement, in normal versus non-normal temperatures.
| Transportation mode | Pre-/post-crosswalk change | Number of images | Images with pedestrians/bicyclists (%), normal temperature | Images with pedestrians/bicyclists (%), non-normal temperature | |
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| Pedestrians | Pre | 1,895 | 111 (7.87) | 32 (6.61) | 0.37 |
| Post | 1,988 | 115 (8.61) | 55 (8.44) | 0.90 | |
| 0.21 | 0.25 | ||||
| Bicyclists | Pre | 1,895 | 23 (1.63) | 10 (2.07) | 0.23 |
| Post | 1,988 | 31 (2.32) | 13 (1.99) | 0.64 | |
| 0.76 | 0.51 | ||||
| Pedestrians | Pre | 2,064 | 1,093 (72.24) | 373 (67.70) | |
| Post | 2,120 | 1,042 (71.96) | 477 (66.52) | 0.64 | |
| 0.86 | 0.21 | ||||
| Bicyclists | Pre | 2,064 | 193 (12.76) | 67 (12.16) | 0.72 |
| Post | 2,120 | 183 (12.64) | 78 (11.61) | 0.50 | |
| 0.92 | 0.76 | ||||
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Images with pedestrians and bicyclists before and after crosswalk enhancement, with and without precipitation.
| Transportation mode | Pre-/post-crosswalk change | Images with pedestrians/bicyclists | Images with pedestrians/bicyclists (%), no precipitation | Images with pedestrians/bicyclists (%), precipitation | ||
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| Pedestrians | Pre | 4,538 | 288 | 272 (6.5%) | 16 (4.7% of all pre-BE change images captured during precipitation) | |
| Post | 4,654 | 297 | 280 (6.5%) | 17 (4.5%) | ||
| Total | 9,192 | 585 | 552 (6.5%) | 33 (4.6%) | ||
| 0.898 | 0.894 | |||||
| Bicyclists | Pre | 4,538 | 76 | 75 (1.8%) | 1 (0.3%) | |
| Post | 4,654 | 79 | 74 (1.7%) | 5 (1.3%) | 0.78 | |
| Total | 9,192 | 155 | 149 (1.8%) | 6 (0.8%) | ||
| 0.845 | 0.131 | |||||
| Pedestrians | Pre | 5,196 | 3,658 | 3,501 (70.7%) | 157 (63.8%) | |
| Post | 5,277 | 3,605 | 3,411 (69.2%) | 194 (56.1%) | ||
| Total | 10,473 | 7,263 ( | 6,912 (70.7%) | 351 (59.3%) | ||
| 0.092 | 0.059 | |||||
| Bicyclists | Pre | 5,196 | 581 | 564 (11.4%) | 17 (6.9%) | |
| Post | 5,277 | 564 | 540 (11.0%) | 24 (6.9%) | ||
| Total | 10,473 | 1,145 ( | 1,104 (11.2%) | 41 (6.9%) | ||
| 0.485 | 0.990 | |||||
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Boldface indicates statistical significance, .