Advances in Road Safety Evaluation

Dear Colleagues,

Road safety evaluation is a systematic way to determine the effectiveness or expected outcome of different types of road safety interventions (e.g., engineering, education, enforcement). It can take place before the actual intervention is carried out (i.e., ex ante evaluation) to compare different intervention alternatives and estimate the expected outcomes of an intervention to prepare policy decisions. However, it can also occur after the intervention took place (i.e., ex post evaluation) in order to determine the observed effectiveness of the intervention. This special issue therefore welcomes contributions in both ex ante and ex post road safety evaluation, and looks for new techniques, methodologies, and applications to carry out such evaluations. We welcome both methodological contributions, as well as application-oriented papers, demonstrating the road safety evaluation process on a particular road safety intervention.

Relevant topics may include, but are not limited to: simulation, road safety prediction, observational before–after studies, road assessment programs (IRAP), road safety audit, risk modeling, proximal safety indicators, virtual reality, conflict observation, social cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria decision making, time-series modeling, etc.

Prof. Dr. Tom Brijs
Guest Editor

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