The idea of a quiet apocalypse dawned on me then as Leonard Mead walked past crumbling and grey houses filled with people watching television “In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time” In many post apocalyptic movies and books I have watched and read there is always a strong theme of desolation and emptiness throughout the story as the main character tries to survive. The first thing I noticed about this story is how abandoned and un-loved the world is in the dark future Bradbury has created, yet Humans are still living relatively normal lives. and abandoned highways arcing off into the distance, yet everyone is fine and safe, it is like a quiet apocalypse and a stark warning of the future. I would recommend this text to teenagers and adults who often find themselves stuck on their devices, maybe if they read this story they may realize that they need to change. The streets resemble those in an apocalypse, with unkept pavements sprouting weeds and plants between their cracks. The man walks the empty streets alone, passing houses filled with people watching television that never go outside. We are not entirely sure who the man is or why he is so different to everyone else, but reading the text I realized he resembled many people living in our society today. The findings help to illuminate why pedestrian-cyclist interactions may attract disproportionate attention from the travelling public, despite their relatively lower risk than interactions with motor vehicle drivers.The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story about a man lost in a strange futuristic society that does not welcome his ways, he is caught in the past and the whole world has changed without him. Topic prevalence was unrelated to participants’ comfort and safety ratings for the same interactions, indicating that topic modeling provides a fundamentally different source of information than quantitative severity ratings. The prevalence of the topics was significantly affected by attributes of the interaction (vehicle type-bicycle or car-and its proximity), and attributes of the perceiver (travel habits and self-reported risk aversion).
#Theme of the pedestrian driver
Modeling results identified six topics in the text data: (1) driver behaviour and pedestrian risk, (2) pedestrian risk assessment and mitigation, (3) pedestrians not waiting before crossing, (4) cyclists leaving the bicycle lane, (5) cyclists’ yielding necessity, and (6) and cyclists’ speed modifications.
The study data come from a survey in which participants rated short video clips of pedestrians interacting with motor vehicles or bicycles at unsignalized crosswalks, and then provided optional open-response comments about each video. To pursue new insights about perceptions of pedestrian comfort and safety, this study uses the novel approach of Structural Topic Modeling to organize open-response comments into prominent topics, or themes, and explore the factors affecting the prevalence and content of topics. Purely quantitative or qualitative studies of perceived comfort and safety have different strengths and limitations related to scope, reliability, and generalizability.
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