Kinetic and Kinematic Features of Pedestrian Avoidance Behavior in Motor Vehicle Conflicts.

The active behaviors of pedestrians, such as avoidance motions, affect the resultant injury risk in vehicle-pedestrian collisions. However, the biomechanical features of these behaviors remain unquantified, leading to a gap in the development of biofidelic research tools and tailored protection for pedestrians in real-world traffic scenarios. In this study, we prompted subjects ("pedestrians") to exhibit natural avoidance behaviors in well-controlled near-real traffic conflict scenarios using a previously developed virtual reality (VR)-based experimental platform.