Traffic Accident Analyses and Road Safety

Dear Colleagues,

Traffic accidents remain a leading cause of injury, fatality, and economic loss worldwide, posing persistent challenges for transportation agencies, policymakers, and researchers. Despite advances in vehicle technology, infrastructure design, and enforcement strategies, road safety outcomes vary widely across regions, user groups, and roadway contexts. At the same time, the growing availability of high-resolution crash data, traffic monitoring systems, telematics, and emerging analytics methods offers new opportunities to better understand crash mechanisms and develop more effective safety interventions.

This Special Issue focuses on Traffic Accident Analyses and Road Safety, with an emphasis on rigorous, data-driven research advancing both scientific understanding and practical implementation. The aim of this Special Issue is to collate interdisciplinary research examining the frequency, severity, and underlying risk factors of traffic accidents across all modes, including motor vehicles, freight, active transportation, and vulnerable road users. Contributions that integrate engineering, behavioral, technological, and policy perspectives are particularly encouraged.

The scope of this Special Issue aligns closely with Future Transportation’s mission to publish interdisciplinary research informing both theory and practice in transportation studies, including accident analysis, system design, and policy evaluation. It seeks to highlight methodological innovations, empirical findings, and policy-relevant insights that can inform safety programs, roadway design, speed management, and regulatory decisions. The overarching purpose is to bridge the gap between research and practice by promoting evidence-based approaches to improving road safety outcomes.

Original research articles and review papers are welcome. Suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the following: crash frequency and severity modeling; human factors and driver behavior; freight and commercial vehicle safety; active transportation safety; speed management and policy evaluation; use of big data, telematics, and connected vehicle data; emerging analytical methods; and evaluation of safety countermeasures.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Salvador Hernandez
Dr. Jason Anderson
Guest Editors

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