Urban Road Safety and Vulnerable Road Users: Behaviour, Infrastructure, and Emerging Mobility Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid urbanization, evolving mobility patterns and emerging micromobility systems are transforming the safety landscape of modern cities. From vulnerable road user interactions with motorized traffic and reduced-speed environments to innovative infrastructure design and effective traffic enforcement strategies, contemporary urban road safety requires integrated, data-driven, and human-centered approaches.

This Special Issue focuses on emerging challenges and innovative solutions in urban road safety, with emphasis on vulnerable road users, micromobility, behavioural analysis, infrastructure design, and the effectiveness of lower speed limits. The Special Issue aims to complement the existing literature by integrating traditionally separate research areas under the broader framework of safe and sustainable urban mobility.

Submissions on topics such as pedestrian safety and gap acceptance, reduced speed limits in urban areas, crash injury severity analyses, traffic enforcement, simulation-based safety assessment, and innovative roundabout design are encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Effectiveness of lower speed limits in urban areas (e.g., 30km/h zones);
• Safety assessment of urban intersections;
• Railway level crossing safety;
• Micromobility safety and behaviour;
• Pedestrian gap acceptance and crossing behaviour;
• Crash frequency and injury severity analysis of vulnerable road users;
• Data-driven and spatial approaches to urban safety analysis;
• Simulation-based evaluation of pedestrian safety measures;
• Safe and efficient urban infrastructure design and operations;
• Safety and operational performance of innovative roundabout design;
• Road safety policies and enforcement strategies;
• Helmet use, distraction and other behavioural risk factors of micromobility users;
• Safety implications of emerging mobility systems.

Dr. Athanasios (Akis) Theofilatos
Dr. Apostolos Anagnostopoulos
Dr. Athanasios Galanis
Guest Editors

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