Team 26: StreetSmart

Abstract

Our project aims to improve pedestrian safety for people from all walks of life. Often pedestrian safety is reduced to statistics about collisions after they happen, but we want to focus on prevention and expand the definition of safety. We want our technology to be widely accessible so we plan on developing a solution that can be integrated into current free navigation platforms (i.e. Google Maps, Apple maps, Waze). The design content of our project will preliminarily include a pedestrian safety metric, routing system and ability to pick a route with optimal pedestrian safety. Potential extensions we hope include if we have the capacity is expanding metrics to include sustainability measures and vehicle safety measures.

Inspiration

Motivation: to improve pedestrian safety for people from all walks of life. Pedestrian safety is often reduced to statistics about collisions after they have happened, but we want to focus on prevention and expand the definition of safety.

What it does

We want our technology to be widely accessible so we plan on developing a solution that can be integrated into current free navigation platforms (Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze) Solution: A reliable system for quantifying personal safety through measurements based on the built environment. We are building an app to suggest the safest routes to our users and provide them with further safety assistance and tips.

How we built it

We acquired built environment and livelihood data for Walnut Hill to build out our algorithm. We are currently building out the application in Swift and will leverage the Google Maps API.

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for Team 26: StreetSmart

We have completed the planning phase of the project, including app design and data acquisition. Data analysis will soon be completed, and the app will be finished in the Spring of 2022.

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