Principal Investigator

Bernardo Pires

Status

Completed

Start Date

Jan. 1, 2015

End Date

Dec. 31, 2015

Project Type

Research Advanced

Grant Program

MAP-21 TSET - Tier 1 (2012 - 2016)

Grant Cycle

2015 TSET UTC

Visibility

Public

Abstract

The goal of this project is to provide actionable data for government officials and advocates that promote bicycling and walking. Although the health and environmental benefits of a non-automobile commute are well known, it is still difficult to understand how to get more people to take up active transportation. Infrastructure can have a dramatic effect on cycling and waling adoption, but represents a significant outlay of government resources. Thus, concrete usage statistics are paramount for assessing and optimizing such spending. This project will create a vision-based cyclist and pedestrian counting system that will allow for automatic and human-assisted data collection and analysis. Unlike traditional non-vision counting methods, our system has the potential for much higher accuracy while providing valuable usage and demographic data that simply cannot be collected by other sensors.    

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Individuals Involved

Email	Name	Affiliation	Role	Position
bpires@cmu.edu	Pires, Bernardo	Robotics Institute	PI	Faculty - Tenured

Budget

Amount of UTC Funds Awarded

$99240.00

Total Project Budget (from all funding sources)

$99240.00

Documents

Type	Name	Uploaded
Final Report	Automatic_Counting_of_Pedestrians.pdf	April 2, 2018, 5:15 a.m.
Publication	Greensburg Vehicle and Pedestrian Study: South Main Street between West Otterman and Pittsburgh Street.	Dec. 2, 2020, 10:33 a.m.

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