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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"sidewalk"”.
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Classifying Sidewalk Materials Using Multi-Modal Data
… user study reveals that materials and objects on sidewalks play a crucial role in navigation tasks. Unfortunately, current methods for assessing sidewalk materials are suboptimal, often relying on labor-intensive and expensive manual assessments that fail to capture the full range of sidewalk …
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Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models
<p>Lack of sidewalk pavement can contribute to pedestrian fatalities and injuries in the USA. Although many researchers have conducted research on sidewalk detection, there are not many publicly available datasets that we would work on for sidewalk classification. In this study, I conducted …
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Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Sidewalk Delivery Robots' Interaction with Pedestrians
In the evolving urban landscape, the surge of Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robots (SADRs) calls for insights into their pedestrian interactions. This thesis explores these dynamics and presents a novel web-based simulator, "TwinWalk", to emulate such interactions. Rooted in a GIS-enhanced digital …
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Mapping Informality: An Approach to Classifying Sidewalk Informal Practices and Elements Through Street View Imagery
… everyday choreography Jane Jacobs called the “sidewalk ballet.” Yet because governments rarely collect census-grade data on such activity, informality remains poorly documented and weakly understood. This thesis introduces a transferable computational framework to formalize informality by …
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
… planning discourse concerning New York City's sidewalks. It focuses on the forces within the city that have shaped the sidewalk and attitudes towards it, and the translation of theory and ideals regarding this key public space into planning policy. The sidewalk is defined morphologically by its …
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Prioritizing Sidewalk Accessibility Improvements for the Aging Population and Individuals with Disabilities: A Case Study of Bandung, Indonesia
… and individuals with disabilities to navigate sidewalks safely. These trends highlight the importance of improving inclusivity on city streets, where people travel daily to reach their essential and desired destinations. This thesis explores an evidence-based methodology to prioritize sidewalk …
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Obstructing the path? : designing sidewalks through object placement
Vibrant multi-use sidewalks are designed in two phases. First there is the design of the physical infrastructure which determines sidewalk widths, materials, and the adjacent building fagades and roadway. Then there is the design problem of organizing objects on the sidewalk: where should the trees …
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Drawing the line : spatial street vendor management in Ho Chi Minh City
… the complex issue of informal street vending and sidewalk usage, with cities often turning to ineffective licensing or harmful street clearance. This paper seeks to address this unfulfilling dichotomy by analyzing a tourism proposal for a painted pedestrian path in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to …
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Laboratory simulation of subsurface airflow beneath a building
… as well as with and without a simulated sidewalk. Results show that increased above ground wind speed increases the oxygen replenishment rate and that the presence of a simulated sidewalk inhibits the oxygen replenishment rate. For the Depressurization Experiment, tests were again run for …
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Magnopark, Smart Parking Detection Based on Cellphone Magnetic Sensor
… exerted by the walking pedestrians on the sidewalks beside the streets. Dating back as far as 2013, a very large portion of pedestrians composing the crowds on the sidewalk, possessed at least one smart device in their hand or pocket14]. It is this statistic that fuels our application, in …
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Preferences for walking-to-school environments: Exploring landscape designs that are most welcomed by children and parents
… the impact of the micro-scale environment of the sidewalk on these decisions about walking to school. This lack of knowledge may lead to a lack of infrastructure investment that would support walkable neighborhoods. This study examines a variety of characteristics in the micro-scale environment …
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A study of the relationship between the use of GIS and project success in selected construction organizations
… focused on highway, street, road, and public sidewalk jobs and other construction organizations that focused on different construction jobs as related to the following two GIS functions: Terrain Modeling and Traffic Management. Some functions that were very close to the .05 level of …
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An Exaggerated Perspective Arcade
… from the site and is differentiated from the sidewalk. Therefore, the position at which the arcade is optimally viewed is demarcated. Over its 100 feet in length, the arcade converges and all the elements within the false perspective diminish in size to support the optical illusion. …
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Distillation
… dry red rustle; a murmur of voices from the sidewalk below; stars creeping across a narrow aperture. An honest detail, delivered without embellishment, instills emotion. Form is sculpted and resculpted, distilled, until a minimum of moves create the "particular sequence of motion and fact …
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Comportamento morfológico e sedimentológico do litoral de Itaipuaçú (Maricá) e Piratininga (Niterói), RJ, nas últimas três décadas
… in width. The partial destruction of the sidewalk along the beach indicates the strong action of storm waves, further increased by the effect of the wave upon the sidewalk. The beach sands in Piratininga are medium improving sorting towards the east. As observed in Itaipuaçú, the …
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Last-Meter Delivery: Solving the Unattended Delivery Challenge from Streets to Doorsteps
… of delivering packages from the roadside or sidewalk to the customer's front door. This thesis proposes a methodology for implementing Large Language Model (LLM), and Vision Language Model (VLM) to enable delivery robots to identify the final delivery target and navigate the complex terrain …
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Moments of Entering a Home
… unique. One is a downtown pedestrian sidewalk with storefronts, one is a quiet one-way back road, and the other is a major highway with heavy traffic. Examining these three urban conditions, the possible relationship between the streets and the apartment building is explored. For …
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Back to the crossroads of Flatbush--the junction--student housing for Brooklyn College
… of each day and pushcarts slip onto the sidewalk. Pedestrians jostle vendors and vendors strike bargains. Senior citizens seeks unlit corners after tracing the sun's path. Night shift workers yawn while gradually adjusting to the morning rush. High school and college students dart in and …
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Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis
… over sixty city blocks above the streets and sidewalks allowing its users to completely ignore any activity occurring below them. The system has become so prevalent it has now become the primary means of movement for pedestrians, leading to empty streets and sidewalks and a lack of welcoming …
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