[HTML][HTML] Sidewalk networks: Review and outlook

D Rhoads, C Rames, A Solé-Ribalta… - … Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
From a transport perspective, increasing active travel–and walking in particular–is crucial for
the future of sustainable cities, as reflected in global decarbonisation policies and agendas …

Urbanity: automated modelling and analysis of multidimensional networks in cities

W Yap, R Stouffs, F Biljecki - npj Urban Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Urban networks play a vital role in connecting multiple urban components and developing
our understanding of cities and urban systems. Despite the significant progress we have …

Mapping sidewalks on a neighborhood scale from street view images

OF Hamim, SR Kancharla… - … and Planning B: Urban …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although reliable and accurate inventorying of sidewalks is time consuming, it can aid urban
planners in decision making for infrastructure development. Recent advancements in …

[HTML][HTML] Pedestrian-oriented development in Beirut: a framework for estimating urban design impacts on pedestrian flows through modeling, participatory design, and …

A Sevtsuk, J Kollar, D Pratama, R Basu, J Haddad… - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
As municipalities are setting ambitious targets to increase non-motorized transportation
mode shares, analytic frameworks for examining how such targets will be met become …

Towards global-scale crowd+ AI techniques to map and assess sidewalks for people with disabilities

M Hosseini, M Saugstad, F Miranda, A Sevtsuk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
There is a lack of data on the location, condition, and accessibility of sidewalks across the
world, which not only impacts where and how people travel but also fundamentally limits …

Towards safer streets: A framework for unveiling pedestrians' perceived road safety using street view imagery

OF Hamim, SV Ukkusuri - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2024 - Elsevier
Road safety has become a global concern but its impact in low-and middle-income countries
is widespread mainly due to lack of appropriate crash database system and under-reporting …

A comparative analysis of pedestrian network connectivity and accessibility using network approximation

ER Hennessy, C Ai - Journal of transport geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the introduction of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), transportation
stakeholders have endeavored to include compliant and accessible pedestrian facilities as a …

Modeling Barcelona sidewalks: A high resolution urban scale assessment of the geometric attributes of the walkable network

F Valls, Á Clua - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Within the framework of urban pedestrian networks, this paper presents a method of
modeling the street network from the perspective of foot traffic, beyond the vehicle-focused …

GeoSAM: Fine-tuning SAM with sparse and dense visual prompting for automated segmentation of mobility infrastructure

RI Sultan, C Li, H Zhu, P Khanduri, M Brocanelli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown impressive performance when applied to
natural image segmentation. However, it struggles with geographical images like aerial and …

[HTML][HTML] Automating the inventory of the navigable space for pedestrians on historical sites: Towards accurate path planning

D Treccani, A Fernández, L Díaz-Vilariño… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pedestrian mobility networks have a primary role on historical urban areas, hence
knowledge of navigable space for pedestrians becomes crucial. Collection and inventory of …