vru conspicuity

Making vulnerable road users visible to drivers: detectability of pedestrians and cyclists through retroreflective and fluorescent clothing, biomotion markings, bike lights, and the distance at which a driver first sees a person on or near the road. The object being made visible is a person walking or cycling, NOT a vehicle (vehicle_conspicuity) and NOT emergency responders or work crews (emergency_work_zone_conspicuity).

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Dataset 9 of 200 declare it

200 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

  1. PW 0803 Night time visibility of crossing pedestrians · 2018 · Wickramasinghe, Vasantha et al. · indexed
  2. Some factors affecting motorcyclists' conspicuity · 1996 · Hole, G et al. · indexed
  3. Testing of bicycle lighting: Method development and evaluation · 2021 · Kircher, Katja et al. · archived
  4. Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity · 2017 · Rößger, Lars et al. · indexed
  5. Drivers' judgments of the effect of headlight glare on their ability to see pedestrians at night · 2015 · Borzendowski, Stephanie A. Whetsel et al. · indexed
  6. Evaluating Countermeasures to Improve Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety · 2018 · Noyce, David A. et al. · archived
  7. Improving the visibility of bicycle infrastructure · 2012 · Fabriek, Eva et al. · indexed
  8. Evaluation of Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons and Rapid Flashing Beacons · 2016 · Fitzpatrick, Kay et al. · archived
  9. Developing and testing a LED system to improve pedestrian safety in Nevada · 2018 · Teng, Hualiang (Harry) et al. · archived
  10. Review of Studies on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, 1991–2007 · 2012 · Karsch, H. M. et al. · archived
  11. Effects of Age and Illumination on Night Driving: A Road Test · 2007 · Owens, D. Alfred et al. · indexed
  12. Informational Report on Lighting Design for Midblock Crosswalks · 2008 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · archived
  13. Pedestrians’ perception and response towards vehicles during road-crossing at nighttime · 2018 · Balasubramanian, Venkatesh et al. · indexed
  14. Understanding and Using New Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities · 2022 · Jackson, Steve et al. · archived
  15. Safety of vulnerable road users · 1998 · NHTSA · archived
  16. Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety – Literature Review · 2025 · Brookshire, Kristen et al. · archived
  17. New Approach to Intelligent Pedestrian Detection and Signaling on Crosswalks · 2024 · Sanguino, Tomás de J. Mateo et al. · archived
  18. Eye Contact between Pedestrians and Drivers · 2019 · AlAdawy, Dina et al. · indexed
  19. Influence of Vertical Illuminance on Pedestrian Visibility in Crosswalks · 2006 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · indexed
  20. Interaction between car drivers and vulnerable road users at roundabouts · 2016 · Vignali, Valeria et al. · archived
  21. Exploring Bicyclists’ Visual Attention during Conflicts with Truck Traffic · 2022 · Abadi, Masoud Ghodrat et al. · indexed
  22. Fixed Illumination for Pedestrian Protection: Final Report · 1975 · Freedman, Mark et al. · archived
  23. Support systems for cyclists in automated traffic: A review and future outlook · 2023 · Berge, Siri Hegna et al. · indexed
  24. Naturalistic Bicycling Behavior Pilot Study. · 2017 · Lin, Pei-Sung et al. · archived
  25. Wet Night Visibility of Pavement Markings · 2007 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · archived
  26. Augmented Reality for Safer Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions · 2018 · Noyce, David A. et al. · archived
  27. Pavement Marking Retroreflectivity Requirements for Older Drivers · 1996 · Graham, Johnny et al. · indexed
  28. Long lighting system for enhanced conspicuity of motorcycles · 2007 · Tsutsumi, Yojiro et al. · indexed
  29. Rainvision: The Impact of Road Markings on Driver Behaviour – Wet Night Visibility · 2016 · Diamandouros, Konstandinos et al. · indexed
  30. Refinement of Drivers' Visibility Needs during Wet Night Conditions · 2012 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · indexed
  31. Human Factors Study on the Use of Colors for Express Lane Delineators · 2019 · Abou-Senna, Hatem et al. · archived
  32. Pedestrian Detection with near and far Infrared Night Vision Enhancement · 2007 · Tsimhoni, Omer et al. · indexed
  33. Minimum Retroreflectivity Requirements for Traffic Signs · 1993 · Paniati, Jeffery F. et al. · archived
  34. A Course in Bicycle Driver Education · 1981 · Farrell, Mary Lou · archived
  35. Pedestrians' motion Through the Eyes of Road Users · 2024 · Bossard, Martin et al. · indexed
  36. The Effect of Expectancy on Visibility in Night Driving · 1996 · Mortimer, Rudolf G. · indexed
  37. Automated Pedestrian Detection, Count and Analysis System · 2015 · Muthukumar, Venki et al. · archived
  38. A Robust Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection Method Using Thermal Images · 2021 · Annapareddy, Navya et al. · indexed
  39. The Design and Assessment of Attention-Getting Rear Brake Light Signals · 2009 · Neurauter, M Lucas et al. · indexed
  40. Wet Night Visibility of Pavement Markings · 2005 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · indexed
  41. Traffic Signs and Real-World Driver Interaction · 2024 · Schnell, Thomas et al. · indexed
  42. Understanding External Factors and Workload's Impact on Cyclist Safety · 2024 · Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena et al. · archived
  43. Bicycle accidents and drivers' visual search at left and right turns · 1996 · Summala, Heikki et al. · indexed
  44. Evaluation of retroreflective material on stop sign posts in Virginia. · 2009 · Cottrell, Benjamin H et al. · archived
  45. Model Regulations and Public Education for Rural-Suburban Pedestrian Safety · 1980 · Hale, A. (Allen), 1938- et al. · archived
  46. Bicyclist detection in large scale naturalistic driving video · 2014 · Yang, Kai et al. · indexed
  47. How visually impaired cyclists ride regular and pedal electric bicycles · 2020 · Jelijs, Bart et al. · indexed
  48. Detecting walking pedestrians from leg motion in driving video · 2014 · Kilicarslan, M. et al. · indexed
  49. Far infrared pedestrian detection and tracking for night driving · 2010 · Olmeda, Daniel et al. · indexed
  50. Cycling difficulties of visually impaired people · 2019 · Jelijs, Bart et al. · indexed
  51. Detection and tracking of pedestrians in infrared images · 2009 · Olmeda, Daniel et al. · indexed
  52. Motivational and deterrent effects of route attributes in cyclists’ route choice · 2023 · Berghoefer, Frauke Luise et al. · indexed
  53. On visual crosswalk detection for driver assistance systems · 2010 · Haselhoff, Anselm et al. · indexed
  54. Part based pedestrian detection based on Logic inference · 2013 · Olmeda, Daniel et al. · archived
  55. Zebra Crosswalk Detection Assisted By Neural Networks · 2017 · Banich, Jason David · indexed
  56. Discrete features for rapid pedestrian detection in infrared images · 2012 · Olmeda, Daniel et al. · archived
  57. Pre collision detection system for pedestrian safety based on HOL · 2015 · Azdoud, Youssef et al. · indexed
  58. Pedestrian detection by fusing 3D points and color images · 2016 · Lin, Ben-Zhong et al. · indexed
  59. Exploiting 3D geometric primitives for multicamera pedestrian detection · 2015 · Mehmood, Muhammad Owais et al. · indexed
  60. An Improved Method for Detection of the Pedestrian Flow Based on RFID · 2017 · Fan, Yuanyuan et al. · indexed
  61. Aggregation Pedestrian Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8 · 2025 · HUANG Kun, QI Zhaojian, WANG Juanmin, HU Qian, HU Weichao, PI Jianyong · indexed
  62. Dense Pedestrian Detection Based on GR-YOLO · 2024 · Li, Nianfeng et al. · indexed
  63. LBP Channels for Pedestrian Detection · 2018 · Trichet, Remi et al. · indexed