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A Safe and Comprehensive Route Finding Algorithm for Pedestrians Based on Lighting and Landmark Conditions

Siya BAO, Tomoyuki NITTA, Masao YANAGISAWA, Nozomu TOGAWA

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In this paper, we propose a safe and comprehensive route finding algorithm for pedestrians based on lighting and landmark conditions. Safety and comprehensiveness can be predicted by the five possible indicators: (1) lighting conditions, (2) landmark visibility, (3) landmark effectiveness, (4) turning counts along a route, and (5) road widths. We first investigate impacts of these five indicators on pedestrians' perceptions on safety and comprehensiveness during route findings. After that, a route finding algorithm is proposed for pedestrians. In the algorithm, we design the score based on the indicators (1), (2), (3), and (5) above and also introduce a turning count reduction strategy for the indicator (4). Thus we find out a safe and comprehensive route through them. In particular, we design daytime score and nighttime score differently and find out an appropriate route depending on the time periods. Experimental simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm obtains higher scores compared to several existing algorithms. We also demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is able to find out safe and comprehensive routes for pedestrians in real environments in accordance with questionnaire results.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.11 pp.2439-2450
Publication Date
2017/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2439
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Intelligent Transport System

Authors

Siya BAO
  Waseda University
Tomoyuki NITTA
  the ZENRIN DataCom Co., Ltd.
Masao YANAGISAWA
  Waseda University
Nozomu TOGAWA
  Waseda University

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