Emerging Transportation Safety and Operations: Practical Perspectives, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Vehicles (ISSN 2624-8921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1027
Special Issue Editors
Interests: highway safety; traffic operations; emerging mobility services; travel demand modeling; ITS applications; CAV/AV impacts on traffic safety; non-motorized transportation; statistical applications in transportation engineering
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Interests: traffic microsimulation modelling; highway safety and human factors research; traffic operations; signal system design and optimization; applications of ITS; geometric design; CV/AV technologies; statistical modeling and analysis
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Interests: ITS; CAV impacts on transportation control system and infrastructure design; safety operations and management as well as environment; AI and advanced computing and communication technologies in transportation infrastructure systems; GIS application; vehicle routing modeling and optimization, advanced technologies in highway safety
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Interests: transportation data analytics; intelligent transportation system
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide, it is estimated that traffic-related crashes (accidents) cause about 1.3 million deaths per year, with an additional 20–50 million people sustaining various types of injuries. Therefore, road safety is a public health issue. For many years, traffic safety professionals and researchers have believed that highway traffic-related deaths and injuries are preventable. Traffic engineers believe that transportation automation technologies such as advanced driver assistance systems, automated driving vehicles, connected vehicles, and autonomous vehicles have the potential to reduce crashes, prevent injuries, save lives, and improve traffic operations. In recent years, concerted efforts have been made to improve road safety worldwide. One of the major recognized efforts is a global multi-country effort known as Vision Zero, which was started in Sweden and has now spread all over the world. This global movement aims to use road safety systemic approach measures to end traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries.
For this Special Issue of Vehicles entitled “Emerging Transportation Safety and Operations: Practical Perspectives,” we are seeking original contributions within this research area. Topics include but are not limited to applications of safety methods along with emerging technologies, the evaluation of traffic studies, before–after studies of safety countermeasures, operation-based safety and other impact studies, emerging trends in traffic safety and operations, surrogate measures, and applications of data-driven safety and operation methods with CAV-generated data, third-party data or other synergized data sources.
The publications in the first edition, which we believe may be of interest to you, can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vehicles/special_issues/VP5V2662T4.
Prof. Dr. Deogratias Eustace
Dr. Bhaven Naik
Prof. Dr. Heng Wei
Dr. Parth Bhavsar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- traffic safety
- surrogate measures
- injury severity
- crash severity
- connected/automated vehicle safety
- safety methods
- intelligent transportation systems
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