Where Pedestrian Deaths Occur: Age-Responsive Urban Features Contributing to Fatal Pedestrian Collisions

Jeong, D., Lee, J., Lim, L.* (2025) Where Pedestrian Deaths Occur: Age-Responsive Urban Features Contributing to Fatal Pedestrian Collisions (submitted) 

Unveiling the Dual Impacts of Built Environments on Senior Walking in South Korea: Insights into Frequency and Speed through GPS and Machine Learning, Cities 

Lee, J., Kim, Y., Lim, L.* (2025) Unveiling the Dual Impacts of Built Environments on Senior Walking in South Korea: Insights into Frequency and Speed through GPS and Machine Learning, Cities (submitted) 

At the end of September 2025, two researchers from the project team participated in the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership Meeting in Milan. The annual gathering brought together more than 200 researchers, practitioners, and representatives and provided a productive and enriching atmosphere which served as an excellent platform to present the project’s current direction, redefine its goals, and engage in focused discussions on dissemination strategies within the broader DUT framework. Throughout the meeting, the team actively exchanged ideas with participants from numerous other DUT-funded projects. These conversations offered valuable insights into comparable research efforts, complementary methodological approaches, and emerging themes in urban mobility and sustainability. The project established several promising new connections and deepened ties with thematically aligned initiatives. Overall, the Milan meeting significantly enriched the project’s network, broadened its strategic perspective, and reinforced its alignment with the overarching objectives of the DUT partnership. 

In August 2025, the German project partners conducted a collaborative workshop at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. During this activity, the team presented the ongoing project and current research progress to an interdisciplinary group of mobility and urban planning professors and researchers. The aim of the session was to exchange perspectives on sustainable urban mobility, discuss methodological approaches, and jointly explore challenges and opportunities relevant to the project’s objectives. The workshop facilitated a rich, intercultural dialogue that highlighted both differences and complementarities in German and Canadian mobility and planning practices. Participants discussed the societal acceptance of the 15-minute city, including communication pitfalls, and strategies to strengthen public understanding and support. Additional discussions centered on the integration of mobility data, optimization models, and new methodological directions for simulating urban mobility behavior. The exchange provided valuable feedback and several concrete ideas for refining the project’s methodological framework. 

In April 2025, a researcher from Konkuk University presented a poster on our research on Dynamic Route Optimization of Demand-Response Transit Using Real Data with Commit Horizons" at the 2025 Korean Society of ITS Spring Conference held in Jeju, Korea. 

In May 2025, a researcher from Konkuk University presented our research on Dynamic Route Optimization of Demand-Response Transit Using Real Data with Commit Horizons at the ITS AP Forum.

November 2025, a researcher from Konkuk University attended the Intelligent Technology for Future Transportation (ITFT) Symposium in London. At this symposium, two presentations were delivered: one on methods to reduce car dependency using the synthetic population, OMoSim, and DRT pipeline, and another on the project’s DRT algorithm. The presentations provided an overview of the project and introduced the DRT algorithm in detail, followed by a discussion session with participants to exchange insights and feedback.

In January 2026, researchers from Konkuk University plan to attend the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 105th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.. At this meeting, we target submitting a paper and delivering a presentation on the project’s research outcomes. The presentation will cover the developed methodologies and algorithms, followed by a discussion session to exchange insights and feedback with other participants.

In January of 2025, Professor Woo gave a talk at the Future mobility global forum (Stanford, Songdo) on the SSWC ideas with researchers from TU Delft and more. Additionally, the project partners reached out to various researchers and stakeholders to introduce and disseminate the unique goal of SSWC and its research approach. 

Professors Woo and Pruckner shared the motivation behind SSWC and the benefit of this international, interdisciplinary research at the Korea National Research Foundation's EU-Korea Research and Innovation Day in March 2025. From this, Professor Woo collaborated and applied to DUT 2024 with the researchers from TU Delft.

In May of 2025, Professor Lim and a researcher from KAIST presented at the EDRA56 conference on how built environment characteristics influence walking patterns across different trip purposes and age groups.