Developing Landmark-Based Pedestrian-Navigation Systems

Author

Millonig, Alexandra ; Schechtner, Katja

Author_Institution

Arsenal Res., Human Centered Mobility Technol., Vienna, VA

Volume

8

Issue

1

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Pedestrian-navigation services enable people to retrieve precise instructions to reach a specific location. However, the development of mobile spatial-information technologies for pedestrians is still at the beginning and faces several difficulties. As the spatial behavior of people on foot differs in many ways from the driver´s performance, common concepts for car-navigation services are not suitable for pedestrian navigation. Particularly, the usage of landmarks is vitally important in human navigation. This contribution points out the main requirements for pedestrian-navigation technologies and presents an approach to identify pedestrian flows and to imply landmark information into navigation services for pedestrians

Keywords

automated highways; driver information systems; mobile communication; navigation; car-navigation services; landmark-based pedestrian-navigation systems; mobile spatial-information technologies; pedestrian telematic services; Availability; Europe; Foot; Global Positioning System; Humans; Intelligent transportation systems; Navigation; Road accidents; Safety; Telematics; Landmark orientation; navigation; pedestrian telematics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1524-9050

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITS.2006.889439

Filename

4114345