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pedestrian
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250px|thumb|Pedestrians on a crosswalk in [[Buenos Aires]] right|thumb|A sign in Belo Horizonte, [[Brazil, directing pedestrians to an overpass for safe crossing.]]
A pedestrian is a person who is walking, typically in urban areas or on streets. Pedestrians matter because they need safe spaces and infrastructure—like crosswalks and overpasses—to move through cities without risk of injury from vehicles.
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Research
9,090 papers- The principles of pedestrian route choice.ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Tong Y, Bode NWFDOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0061
- Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury: A scoping review.Health & place · 2022Schwartz N, Buliung R, Daniel A et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102896
- The forensic investigation of vehicle-pedestrian collisions: A review.ReviewScience & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society · 2021Nogayeva S, Gooch J, Frascione NDOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2020.10.006
- Pedestrian and Vehicle Detection in Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems-A Review.ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Galvao LG, Abbod M, Kalganova T et al.DOI: 10.3390/s21217267
- Systematic review of pedestrian safety at roundabouts.Journal of safety research · 2025Doğan EDOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2025.06.005
- Macro-level literature analysis on pedestrian safety: Bibliometric overview, conceptual frames, and trends.ReviewAccident; analysis and prevention · 2022Mirhashemi A, Amirifar S, Tavakoli Kashani A et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2022.106720
- Vehicle-Pedestrian near miss analysis at signalized mid-block crossings.Journal of safety research · 2024Ahsan MJ, Abdel-Aty M, Anwari NDOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2024.08.006
- Predicting pedestrian crosswalk behavior using Convolutional Neural Networks.Traffic injury prevention · 2023Liang E, Stamp MDOI: 10.1080/15389588.2023.2186734
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250px|thumb|Pedestrians on a crosswalk in [[Buenos Aires]] right|thumb|A sign in Belo Horizonte, [[Brazil, directing pedestrians to an overpass for safe crossing.]]
A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot (walking or running), by wheelchair or with other mobility aids. Streets and roads often have a designated footpath for pedestrian traffic, called the sidewalk in North American English, the pavement in British English, and the footpath in Australian, Indian and New Zealand English. There are also footpaths not associated with thoroughfares; these include rural paths and urban short cuts.