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  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,463 Views
21 Pages

A Serious Game for Mediated Education on Traffic Behavior and Safety Awareness

  • Apostolia Gounaridou,
  • Eleni Siamtanidou and
  • Charalampos Dimoulas

17 March 2021

Computer games are considered a useful tool for educational purposes. Alternative media applications such as serious games combine edification with challenge and entertainment. Thus, learning becomes enjoyable, more comfortable, and more efficient. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,233 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Online Gamified Traffic Safety Education Platform for Adolescent Motorcyclists in Pakistan

  • Imran Nawaz,
  • Ariane Cuenen,
  • Geert Wets,
  • Roeland Paul,
  • Tufail Ahmed and
  • Davy Janssens

24 September 2024

This study explores the potential of online traffic safety education for adolescent motorcyclists in Pakistan. An e-learning platform, “Route 2 School” (R2S), was developed focusing on traffic knowledge, situation awareness, risk detectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,248 Views
12 Pages

31 December 2023

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic demanded a swift transition in the usual educational mode of delivery from face to face to online. New Zealand established “a traffic light system” after initial COVID-19 lockdowns, and education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
19,582 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of a Road Safety Education Program Based on Driving Under Influence and Traffic Risks for Higher Secondary School Students in Belgium

  • Malik Sarmad Riaz,
  • Ariane Cuenen,
  • Stijn Dhondt,
  • Helen Craps,
  • Davy Janssens,
  • Geert Wets,
  • Tom Brijs and
  • Kris Brijs

27 May 2019

Road safety education has been recognized as an instrument for reducing road accidents. This study aims to evaluate the road safety education program “Traffic Weeks” among higher secondary school students (age 16–19) in Belgium. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,772 Views
11 Pages

5 January 2023

The objective of this study is to verify the preventive effect of daily safety education on children by analyzing its influence on the improvement in their understanding, perceptions, and attitudes toward safety, when virtual reality (VR) is used. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,112 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2025

With the continuous evolution of traffic regulations due to societal and technological changes in South Korea, traffic safety education significantly contributes to promoting compliance and preventing confusion among drivers. However, little research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,078 Views
23 Pages

24 January 2025

To ensure children’s safe independent mobility on the road, they need to learn basic traffic rules. In this case, traffic rule education in a realistic environment through a play-way method can be a significant learning strategy. This research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,045 Views
13 Pages

Could Road Safety Education (RSE) Help Parents Protect Children? Examining Their Driving Crashes with Children on Board

  • Francisco Alonso,
  • Sergio A. Useche,
  • Eliseo Valle,
  • Cristina Esteban and
  • Javier Gene-Morales

Recent evidence suggests that driving behavior and traffic safety outcomes of parents may be influenced by the extent to which they receive information and education on road safety, as well as the fact of driving with their children on board, which m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,250 Views
17 Pages

Background: Education in road safety (also known as Road Safety Education—RSE) constitutes, nowadays, an emergent approach for improving present and future road behaviors, aiming at taking action against the current, and concerning, state-of-af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,621 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2022

The safety of pedestrians, such as workers who largely walk to and from work, has not been given sufficient attention, especially in the area of traffic safety in developing countries, including Bangladesh. Although the National Road Safety Strategy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,305 Views
14 Pages

Background: Road Safety Education (RSE) is widely known as a reliable determinant of the future results for what concerns health and welfare and as an undisputable factor which contributes to the social behavior of individuals and to their mid- and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,067 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2022

Deaths due to road traffic accidents (RTA) accounted for 2.46% of deaths out of the total deaths in Indonesia. Road safety education (RSE), as an effort to prevent RTA, focuses on increasing knowledge; however, variations of techniques, methods, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,272 Views
20 Pages

A Practical Model of the Application of Information Technology in Various Fields of Online Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mechanical Engineering, Traffic, Informatics and Statistics, Accounting and Auditing

  • Dragan Milosevic,
  • Dragana Trnavac,
  • Dragoljub Ilic,
  • Miroslav Vulic,
  • Mica Djurdjev,
  • Maja Radic,
  • Branka Markovic,
  • Nena Tomovic,
  • Srdjan Ljubojevic and
  • Mladen Dobric
  • + 2 authors

3 December 2022

This paper deals with the issue of education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and its effects on education development gained during that process. This topic is trending around sustainable education in urban and rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,349 Views
21 Pages

23 November 2023

The often-discussed issue of parental escorting of children to school and its potential disruption of traffic flow has been extensively examined in the literature. Still, the specific effects of traffic congestion remain understudied. To fill this ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,452 Views
11 Pages

Sustainable and Aware Mobility Explained to Children

  • Paolo Gandini,
  • Giovanna Marchionni,
  • Luca Studer and
  • Roberto Maja

25 November 2019

Mobility represents a key sector to face climate change and pollution issues. In a broad context of initiatives aimed at making mobility as sustainable as possible, meaningful actions can be oriented to educate people and to encourage their choices t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,124 Views
28 Pages

20 January 2025

In Pakistan, implementing road safety education (RSE) initiatives is vital in tackling the concerning rates of road accidents. Since parents and teachers are crucial in moulding children’s road safety behaviours, this study investigated the per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,588 Views
20 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Noise Barrier Optimization

  • Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin,
  • Eriberto Oliveira Do Nascimento,
  • Elaine Carvalho Da Paz and
  • Felipe Do Valle

In the modern world, noise pollution continues to be a major problem that impairs people’s health, and road traffic is a primary contributor to noise emissions. This article describes an environmental impact study of the noise generated by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,856 Views
12 Pages

Road traffic signs are part of the road infrastructure components meant to ensure the safe use of roads by motorists and pedestrians alike. A good knowledge and comprehension of road signs helps ensure smooth flow of traffic, improves safety for othe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
35 Pages

Development of Traffic Rules Training Platform Using LLMs and Cloud Video Streaming

  • Artem Kazarian,
  • Vasyl Teslyuk,
  • Oleh Berezsky and
  • Oleh Pitsun

Driving safety education remains a critical societal priority, and understanding traffic rules is essential for reducing road accidents and improving driver awareness. This study presents the development and evaluation of a virtual simulator for lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,357 Views
24 Pages

Advancing Online Road Safety Education: A Gamified Approach for Secondary School Students in Belgium

  • Imran Nawaz,
  • Ariane Cuenen,
  • Geert Wets,
  • Roeland Paul and
  • Davy Janssens

1 August 2025

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of injury and death among adolescents, making road safety education crucial. This study assesses the performance of and users’ opinions on the Route 2 School (R2S) traffic safety education program, des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,302 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2021

With the background of China’s new energy vehicles (NEVs) subsidies declining, there is an important practical significance to effectively play the role of the nonsubsidized consumption promotion mechanisms. The nonsubsidized mechanisms for NEVs are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
18 Pages

Sociodemographic and Psychological Profile of Offenders in Alternative Penal Measures: A Comparative Study of the TASEVAL, PRIA-MA, and reGENER@r Programs

  • Ana Isabel Sánchez,
  • Aida Fernández,
  • Almudena Lorite,
  • Clotilde Berzosa Sáez,
  • Elena Miró,
  • María Pilar Martínez and
  • Raúl Quevedo-Blasco

3 October 2025

Gender-based violence (GBV) and traffic offenses pose significant public health challenges and contribute to widespread social issues globally. This study examines the sociodemographic and psychological profiles of individuals who commit traffic offe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,853 Views
18 Pages

SARIMA Modelling Approach for Forecasting of Traffic Accidents

  • Nemanja Deretić,
  • Dragan Stanimirović,
  • Mohammed Al Awadh,
  • Nikola Vujanović and
  • Aleksandar Djukić

7 April 2022

To achieve greater sustainability of the traffic system, the trend of traffic accidents in road traffic was analysed. Injuries from traffic accidents are among the leading factors in the suffering of people around the world. Injuries from road traffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,902 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2022

Traffic congestion is a contemporary urban issue plaguing transportation planners, land developers, policy-makers, and citizens. While many studies have investigated the impact of built environments on traffic behavior in large metropolises on a regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,558 Views
22 Pages

Index for Assessing the Performance Level of Vehicular Traffic on Urban Streets

  • Ernesto De la Cruz-Nicolás,
  • Hugo Estrada-Esquivel,
  • Alicia Martínez-Rebollar,
  • Odette Alejandra Pliego-Martínez and
  • Eddie Clemente

6 November 2024

Vehicular transportation is one of the most widely used modes in modern cities for reaching key destinations such as workplaces, healthcare facilities, recreational areas, and educational institutions, among others. However, the performance of vehicu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,424 Views
25 Pages

Reported Neighborhood Traffic and the Odds of Asthma/Asthma-Like Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Multi-Racial Cohort of Children

  • Sarah Commodore,
  • Pamela L. Ferguson,
  • Brian Neelon,
  • Roger Newman,
  • William Grobman,
  • Alan Tita,
  • John Pearce,
  • Michael S. Bloom,
  • Erik Svendsen and
  • Kelly J. Hunt
  • + 7 authors

Asthma in children poses a significant clinical and public health burden. We examined the association between reported neighborhood traffic (a proxy for traffic-related air pollution) and asthma among 855 multi-racial children aged 4–8 years ol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,537 Views
23 Pages

Risk Perception Sensitivity of Cyclists Based on the Cox Risk Perception Model

  • Dan Zhao,
  • Shengrui Zhang,
  • Bei Zhou,
  • Shuaiyang Jiao and
  • Ling Yang

25 March 2020

To promote the sustainable development and safety of bicycle traffic, survival analysis of the risk perception sensitivity of cyclists is proposed. The cumulative probability of survival serves as an index of risk perception sensitivity, and a Cox re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,885 Views
18 Pages

Long-Term Traffic Prediction Using Deep Learning Long Short-Term Memory

  • Ange-Lionel Toba,
  • Sameer Kulkarni,
  • Wael Khallouli and
  • Timothy Pennington

Traffic conditions are a key factor in our society, contributing to quality of life and the economy, as well as access to professional, educational, and health resources. This emphasizes the need for a reliable road network to facilitate traffic flui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,843 Views
15 Pages

Comparative Analyses of Parameters Influencing Children Pedestrian Behavior in Conflict Zones of Urban Intersections

  • Aleksandra Deluka-Tibljaš,
  • Irena Ištoka Otković,
  • Tiziana Campisi and
  • Sanja Šurdonja

18 January 2021

Children pedestrians make up 30% of the total number of children injured in road traffic in the EU. Research shows that children are injured more often in the urban areas, in residential areas near schools and parks, often at intersections and pedest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,362 Views
12 Pages

Risky Roads in Kuwait: An Uneven Toll on Migrant Workers

  • Janvier Gasana,
  • Soad Albahar,
  • Mahareb Alkhalidi,
  • Qout Al-Mekhled,
  • Darline El Reda and
  • Marwan Al-Sharbati

This descriptive study reveals trends in citations and traffic-related mortality in Kuwait. Secondary data were utilized, where data on road traffic citations were obtained from the traffic police in the Ministry of Interior for the years from 2011 t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,525 Views
18 Pages

Traffic Efficiency Models for Urban Traffic Management Using Mobile Crowd Sensing: A Survey

  • Akbar Ali,
  • Nasir Ayub,
  • Muhammad Shiraz,
  • Niamat Ullah,
  • Abdullah Gani and
  • Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi

25 November 2021

The population is increasing rapidly, due to which the number of vehicles has increased, but the transportation system has not yet developed as development occurred in technologies. Currently, the lowest capacity and old infrastructure of roads do no...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,400 Views
5 Pages

Motorcyclists are 28 times more likely to die in traffic crashes than occupants in passenger cars and they constitute 14% of the total traffic fatalities while being less than 3% percent of registered vehicles. Training and education of motorcycle op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,303 Views
9 Pages

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,102 Views
16 Pages

Traffic accidents are a leading cause of premature death for citizens, with millions of injuries and fatalities occurring annually. Due to the fact that a large proportion of accidents are caused by red light running, reduction of the frequency of re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,985 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2025

Road traffic accidents pose a significant global public health and economic challenge. In Saudi Arabia, rapid motorization and urbanization have contributed to one of the world’s highest traffic fatality rates. This study evaluates the effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,759 Views
28 Pages

Development of Methodology for Defining a Pattern of Drivers Mobile Phone Usage While Driving

  • Petar Čolić,
  • Marijan Jakovljević,
  • Krešimir Vidović and
  • Marko Šoštarić

1 February 2022

Mobile phone usage during driving causes driver distraction, which negatively affects road traffic safety and is becoming an increasingly common cause of traffic accidents. This paper proposes a new methodology, based on anonymized datasets from tele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,209 Views
18 Pages

In addition to a wide range of socio-economic impacts, traffic congestion during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic has been identified as a critical issue to be addressed. In urban neighborhoods, the timespan of traffic congestion hazard (HTC) after t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,858 Views
15 Pages

The Effects on Neighborhood Environments during Lockdowns: Being Comfortable in Residences

  • Yasmeen Gul,
  • Gul Ahmed Jokhio,
  • Zahid Sultan,
  • John Alexander Smith,
  • Wan Saiful Nizam,
  • Mehdi Moeinaddini and
  • Dalia Hafiz

24 November 2022

Cities around the world have been hit by the COVID-19 crisis. The worst consequences of the pandemic are closely related to urban areas. Many studies investigated the impact of COVID-19 on people but there are few studies that have investigated the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,560 Views
17 Pages

2 April 2022

Extensive effort has been devoted to examining the causal relationship between contributing factors and injury severities. Given the important role of riders’ behaviors in traffic conflicts, this paper aims to analyze the causal effects of traf...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,103 Views
21 Pages

Traffic Accidents in Children and Adolescents: A Complex Orthopedic and Medico-Legal Approach

  • Ștefan Popa,
  • Carmen Iulia Ciongradi,
  • Ioan Sârbu,
  • Ovidiu Bîcă,
  • Irene Paula Popa and
  • Diana Bulgaru-Iliescu

24 August 2023

Traffic accidents involving children and adolescents present complex challenges from both the medico-legal and orthopedic standpoints. Despite the implementation of road traffic safety laws, pediatric road traffic injuries continue to be a significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,051 Views
12 Pages

An Analysis of Driving Behavior of Educated Youth in Bangladesh Considering Physiological, Cultural and Socioeconomic Variables

  • Ashraf Mahmud Rayed,
  • Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq,
  • Mizanur Rahman,
  • A. W. M. Ng,
  • Md. Khairul Alam Nahid,
  • Mahibuzzaman Mridul,
  • Wazed Al Islam and
  • Muhammad Mohiuddin

24 April 2022

One of the alarming aspects of Bangladesh’s traffic safety is the massive growth in the number of drivers without previous driving instruction or licenses. Proper traffic safety is defined as systems and techniques used to safeguard road users...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,905 Views
13 Pages

Parents’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Risks Associated with Children’s Walks to School in Blantyre, Malawi

  • Bosco Chinkonda,
  • Alejandra Piragauta,
  • Dennis Mazingi,
  • Linda Chokotho,
  • Monica Nzanga,
  • Steve Manyozo,
  • Prasanthi Puvanachandra and
  • Margaret Peden

(1) Background: This study explored the challenges faced by schoolchildren while commuting to school, particularly the hazards associated with poor road conditions, exposure to high-speed traffic, and traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). (2) Methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,437 Views
12 Pages

2 April 2025

Bicycle safety remains a critical concern as cycling gains popularity, especially in urban areas where traffic conditions pose significant risks. The increasing presence of bicycles and derivatives of them further complicates traffic dynamics, raisin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,049 Views
18 Pages

10 January 2024

This study explores the complex connections among various socioeconomic, demographic, and technological aspects and their impact on fatal traffic accidents. Utilizing the Lasso polynomial regression model, this study explores the impact of demographi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,202 Views
14 Pages

“Where Have I Heard It?” Assessing the Recall of Traffic Safety Campaigns in the Dominican Republic

  • Francisco Alonso,
  • Mireia Faus,
  • Cesáreo Fernández and
  • Sergio A. Useche

14 September 2021

Although traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death in the world, and are linked to vehicle and infrastructure-related factors, crash-related fatality rates are much higher in low-income countries. Particularly, the Dominican Republic is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,159 Views
11 Pages

28 January 2019

By means of on-site and network investigation, we collected data relevant to residents of communities, point of interest (POI) data, and land-use data of Fuzhou. We set traffic walking time and leisure walking time as an independent variable, built e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,898 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2020

Driver education providers may utilise technologies such as driving simulators to augment their existing courses. Understanding the perceptions that young drivers and parents have of simulators may help to make simulator-based driver education more a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,103 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of the Soundscape on University Life: Critical Music Education as a Tool for Awareness and Transformation

  • José Salvador Blasco-Magraner,
  • Pablo Marín-Liébana,
  • Amparo Hurtado-Soler and
  • Ana María Botella-Nicolás

This study explores the impact of soundscapes on the emotional and academic experiences of preservice teachers enrolled in music education courses within an elementary education degree program. It focuses on the framework of critical music education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,545 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2021

The application of facial recognition technology (FRT) can effectively reduce the red-light running behavior of e-bikers. However, the privacy issues involved in FRT have also attracted widespread attention from society. This research aims to explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,298 Views
11 Pages

Alcohol Use Disorder among Patients Suffered from Road Collisions in a Vietnamese Delta Province

  • Hai Minh Vu,
  • Tung Thanh Tran,
  • Giang Thu Vu,
  • Cuong Tat Nguyen,
  • Chau Minh Nguyen,
  • Linh Gia Vu,
  • Tung Hoang Tran,
  • Bach Xuan Tran,
  • Carl A. Latkin and
  • Roger C.M. Ho
  • + 1 author

Traffic collisions have continuously been ranked amongst the top causes of deaths in Vietnam. In particular, drinking has been recognized as a major factor amplifying the likelihood of traffic collisions in various settings. This study aims to examin...

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