E-scooter riders have an increased crash risk compared to cyclists [1 ]. Hospital data finds increasing numbers of injured e-scooter riders, with head injuries as one of the most common injury types [2]. To decrease this high prevalence of head injuries, the use of e-scooter helmets could present a potential countermeasure [3]. Despite this, studies show a generally low rate of helmet use rates in countries without mandatory helmet use laws [4][5][6]. In countries with mandatory helmet use laws for e-scooter riders, helmet use rates are higher, but generally remain lower than bicycle use rates [7]. As the helmet use rate is a central factor for the safety of e-scooter riders in case of a crash and a key performance indicator in the European Commission's Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 [8], efficient e-Scooter helmet use data collection methods are needed. However, currently, human observers are used to register e-scooter helmet use either in direct roadside observations or in indirect video-based observation, which is time-consuming and costly. In this study, a deep learning-based method for the automated detection of e-scooter helmet use in video data was developed and tested, with the aim to provide an efficient data collection tool for road safety researchers and practitioners.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:82459 |
| Date | 19 December 2022 |
| Creators | Siebert, Felix W., Riis, Christoffer, Janstrup, Kira H., Kristensen, Jakob, Gül, Oguzhan, Lin, Hanhe, Hüttel, Frederik B. |
| Publisher | Technische Universität Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-813602, qucosa:81360 |
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