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"The Pedestrian" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of The Reporter by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. [1] It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), but was dropped from later editions of this collection (1990 and 1997).
The player embodies a male or female Stick Figure, similar to those found on standardized exit signs, toilet signs, pedestrian traffic lights, etc.Though the game world is three-dimensional, the player character exists strictly within the 2D space created by the faces of various street and building signs, navigating between them as it makes its journey forward through various parts of New York ...
The Pedestrian (German: Der Fußgänger) is a 1973 film directed by Maximilian Schell. It is about the trial of an elderly war criminal . The film was a co-production between companies in Germany , Switzerland and Israel ; the movie was distributed in the United States by Cinerama Releasing Corporation.
The configuration also represents an example of functional shared space, where pedestrian and vehicular traffic can safely and comfortably coexist. [ 20 ] In the westward development of the United States, the use of the grid plan was nearly universal in the construction of new settlements, such as in Salt Lake City (1870), Dodge City (1872) and ...
In transportation engineering, traffic flow is the study of interactions between travellers (including pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and their vehicles) and infrastructure (including highways, signage, and traffic control devices), with the aim of understanding and developing an optimal transport network with efficient movement of traffic and minimal traffic congestion problems.
A diagram showing the path of a driver performing a U-turn on a normal two-way road (left-hand traffic) Contrail of a plane that took a U-turn. A U-turn in driving refers to performing a 180° rotation to reverse the direction of travel. It is called a "U-turn" because the maneuver looks like the letter U. In some areas, the maneuver is illegal ...
A figure-ground diagram is a two-dimensional map of an urban space that shows the relationship between built and unbuilt space. It is used in analysis of urban design and planning . It is akin to but not the same as a Nolli map which denotes public space both within and outside buildings and also akin to a block pattern diagram that records ...
An animated cobweb diagram of the logistic map = (), showing chaotic behaviour for most values of >. A cobweb plot , known also as Lémeray Diagram or Verhulst diagram is a visual tool used in the dynamical systems field of mathematics to investigate the qualitative behaviour of one-dimensional iterated functions , such as the logistic map .