Traffic Accident Analyses and Road Safety for Sustainable Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

Road traffic crashes are considered a serious and life-threatening problem worldwide, causing an estimated 1.3 million fatalities and between 20 and 50 million injuries per year, according to WHO data in 2019. Road accidents are not limited to motor vehicle drivers, but affect all road users, such as vulnerable road users (i.e., pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists and their passengers). In addition, new forms of mobility, such as Personal Mobility Vehicles or Automated and Connected Vehicles, generate conflicts and accidents that represent a new challenge to be investigated.

The resulting road traffic injuries place a significant financial burden on the victims and their families in the form of medical expenses for those who are injured, and lost wages for those who are killed or disabled. Consequently, this affects the nations’ economies due to the loss of productivity and cost of treatment.

Therefore, it is crucial to analyse traffic crashes in order to identify the factors that lead to their occurrence. In general, a number of factors, including road geometry, human characteristics, vehicle design, travel patterns, urban planning, and exposure to risk factors, contribute to traffic crashes. Understanding these factors can assist with the implementation of countermeasures and reduce the frequency of road crashes and their severity, in order to provide a safe and sustainable transport system.

This Special Issue provides researchers and readers with an insight into some key issues in road safety and sustainable transportation, ranging from road design to driver behaviour and human factor challenges that are associated with progress in the field of sustainable and safe mobility. Of particular interest are original and/or review papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Innovative methods in traffic crashes data analysis;
• Data mining techniques in traffic crashes analysis;
• Countermeasures to reduce traffic crashes injuries and fatalities;
• Methods to improve the collection and maintenance of road traffic crashes data;
• Human factors for motorized and vulnerable road users;
• Innovative road infrastructure to increase vulnerable road users’ safety;
• Automated and Connected Vehicles and road safety;
• Concepts and approaches for sustainable mobility;
• Sustainable concepts in road safety design;
• Road safety in sustainable mobility.

Dr. Griselda López
Dr. Randa Oqab Mujalli
Guest Editors

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