Mingyu Hou's research while affiliated with Southeast University (China) and other places

Publications (13)

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Vision is the most crucial human sense, accounting for most of the external information pedestrians receive while crossing the street from visual sources. However, distracted mobile phone usage during street crossing consumes pedestrians' cognitive resources and diverts their visual attention. As a result, pedestrians may be unable to fully concent...
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Public's attention has gradually shifted toward traffic safety hazards caused by pedestrians’ distracted behavior related to mobile phone usage, especially at pedestrian crossings. By analyzing the pedestrians’ street-crossing behaviors in 12 sidewalks from 9 urban road intersections in Nanjing city through recording videos, a total of 1778 valid p...
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Distraction and overspeed behaviors are acknowledged as two significant contributors to single-vehicle motorcycle crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from which are severe and critical issues in Pakistan. To explore the temporal instability and differences in the factors determining the injury severities between single-vehicle motorcycle cra...
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It is crucial for drivers to conduct rapid and effective risk perception and response processes when faced with hazardous driving situations. The low pressure and oxygen environment in the plateau result in a greater workload of drivers, contributing to a significant decline in the perception and response-ability. This study proposes a graph constr...
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Pedestrians may be the most vulnerable group among road users, and mobile phone use while crossing the street is ubiquitous worldwide in this information era. However, previous studies have found that such distracting behaviors may increase the risk of injury and death. The present study primarily aimed to explore the effect of reinforcement sensit...
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Pedestrian safety is alarming worldwide, and it is well validated that distracted walking/crossing involving mobile phone use would significantly compromise pedestrian safety. Some existing studies demonstrated that distracted pedestrians would spend more time to cross street, miss more safe opportunities to cross and pay less attention to the road...
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Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users in the traffic system and thousands of pedestrians are injured or killed globally as a result of traffic crashes every year. With their popularity and enriched functions, mobile phones are playing an increasingly important role in people’s lives, and records of vehicle crashes involving pedestrians hav...
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For the optimization analysis of pavement maintenance programs, combinatorial optimization is a pervasive problem. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are widely used to solve combinatorial optimization problems in pavement maintenance programs. However, owing to the stochastic search mechanisms underlying GAs, they are more likely to produce a relatively uns...
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Highways provide the basis for safe and efficient driving. Road geometry plays a critical role in dynamic driving systems. Contributing factors such as plane, longitudinal alignment, and traffic volume, as well as drivers’ sight characteristics, determine the safe operating speed of cars and trucks. In turn, the operating speed influences the frequ...
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The paper proposes a method supported by MATLAB for detection and measurement of missing point regions (MPR) which may cause severe road information loss in mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud. First, the scan-angle thresholds are used to segment the road area for MPR detection. Second, the segmented part is mapped onto a binary image with a pi...
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Large vehicles including double-decker buses are vulnerable to traffic accidents, especially in rolling terrain. However, causes of these accidents are often obscured by the combined impact of the vehicle, driving behavior, and environmental conditions like wind and terrain. This study tried to evaluate bus safety in rolling terrain and wind gradie...

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... It reported that 12% of patients had grievous injuries and about 37% had severe injuries following bike trauma and wrong lane change was one of the common behaviors noticed in victims. 13,14,15,16,17 Moreover the risky behavior of bike riders not only leads to the severity of the injury it also leads to financial implications even in the form of fines imposed on violation of rules. 18,19 CONCLUSION Wrong lane change is an aberrant driving behavior. ...
... Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics of these participants. The acclimation period of the plateau drivers was also collected as a potential element, which was classified as 10 days and 6 months based on recent research by Zhang et al. (23) and Wang et al. (24). Acclimation period denotes the time duration for adjusting to the plateau environment for a person from low-altitude areas (25). ...
... Moreover, the negative effects and social problems caused by improper device usage have gradually become prominent, such as smartphone addiction among teenagers (Mahapatra, 2019). In the field of traffic safety, these negative effects primarily manifest as distractions caused by smartphone use among road users, including drivers or pedestrians using their phones while driving or crossing the street (Hou et al., 2022). Currently, compared to distracted driving, less attention isis paid to the distraction caused by smartphone use among pedestrians. ...
... Due to inadequate protection, pedestrians are the most "vulnerable road users" in today's dynamic and diverse transportation environment (Hou, Cheng, Xiao, & Wang, 2021). Statistics reveal that 23% (approximately 310,000) of the 1.35 million worldwide traffic-related injuries and deaths in 2018 were pedestrians (WHO, 2018). ...
... According to statistics, by the end of 2019, it is estimated that more than 5 billion have mobile devices, of which more than half are smartphones, which have become an indispensable tool for people to Innoeduca. International Journal of Technology and Educational Innovation Hong et al. communicate (Hou, & Cheng, 2021). Immediate sensory responses may be necessary depending on the application and individual circumstances (Oulasvirta et al., 2011). ...
... Among them, PCI represents pavement damage condition caused by 11 distresses for asphalt surface roads, such as cracking, rutting (Wang et al. 2020). Moreover, the pavement distresses of Shanxi freeways are mainly reflected in PCI, so PCI was used in this study to characterise pavement performance (Xiao et al. 2020). The range of PCI is [0, 100], where 0 represents pavement with the most damage, and 100 represents pavement without any damage. ...
... Let us first delve into the fundamental factors that several studies have identified as impacting crash frequency. The foremost factor is the average annual daily traffic (AADT), which has been consistently correlated with the frequency of crashes [24,25]. As traffic volume increases, the likelihood of collisions on the road also rises. ...
... Unlike automated algorithms, which may fail in some complex scenarios, humans can well distinguish the road boundaries that separate pavement regions and roadside areas. Then, the natural cubic splines (NCS) are used to fit those points piecewise, and Ma et al.'s approach [29] is applied to resample denser points on the fitted NCS. The resampled points that are set ∆ apart serve as the horizontal positions of candidate RSL. ...