As human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) coexist on the road, the asymmetry between their driving behaviors, decision-making processes, and responses to traffic scenarios introduces new safety challenges, especially in complex me...
The traditional method of designing freeway geometric characteristics may not well consider traffic safety and evaluation problems associated with vehicle, driver, road, and environmental features. This paper looks into accident-prone compound curves...
This study aimed to explore the traffic safety evaluation model for downstream intersections of urban expressway exits and make up for the shortcomings in safety research on downstream intersections of urban expressway exits. We constructed a compreh...
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...
Although driverless technology belongs to the frontier of science and technology, there is no sufficient actual data. From the lack of a comprehensive systematic evaluation method of traffic safety under driverless penetration, considering the impact...
Driver behavior has been considered as the most influential factor in reducing fatal road accidents and the resulting injuries. Thus, it is important to focus on the significance of driver behavior criteria to solve road safety issues for a sustainab...
This study derived effective driving behavior indicators to assess the driving safety of autonomous vehicles (AV). A variety of operation design domains (ODD) in urban road networks, which include intersections, illegal parking, bus stop, bicycle lan...
The paper presents a microsimulation approach for assessing the safety performance of turbo-roundabouts where Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles “CAVs” have been introduced into the traffic mix alongside conventional vehicles “CVs”. Based on the analysi...
In order to solve the safety ambiguity problems in the construction and use of rural roads in the gully area of the Loess Plateau, this paper proposes a safety assessment method based on the normal cloud model (NCM). First, a safety assessment index...
Due to complex traffic conditions, freeway curves are associated with higher crash rates, particularly for trucks, which poses significant safety risks. Predicting truck crash rates on curves is essential for enhancing freeway safety. However, geomet...
The conditions of globalization often dictate the functioning of transport markets, so it is necessary to conduct frequent research in order to achieve sustainable business. This is achieved through adequate risk and safety management at all levels....
Ship collision accidents account for the majority of marine accidents. The collision risk can be even greater in ports where the traffic density is high and terrain conditions are difficult. The proximity assessment model of the Korea Maritime Safety...
Aviation resources in the post-pandemic era are still in short supply. The increasing air traffic flow aggravates flight delays and makes it difficult to ensure aviation safety. Instead of focusing on the economic benefits, this paper proposes a quan...
This research is part of a broader investigation into innovative simulation-based approaches for improving traffic efficiency and road safety in roundabout corridors. These corridors, composed of successive roundabouts along arterials, present system...
Suburban roads are an important part of China’s road network and essential infrastructure for rural development. Poorly designed road curves and scarcity of traffic signs have caused an excessively high traffic accident rate in plain topographi...
As the number of traffic accident casualties continues to rise globally, this study aims to enhance traffic safety during highway emergency repairs. Based on the fundamentals of human vision, this study designed a novel interactive barricade design,...
Most current traffic safety evaluations using traffic conflict techniques are based on the principles of vehicle dynamics and kinematics. In these evaluations, a lack of consideration of the coupling mechanism among drivers, road users and the road e...
Traffic safety remains a pressing global concern, with traffic signs playing a vital role in regulating and guiding drivers. However, environmental factors like lighting and weather often compromise their visibility, impacting human drivers and auton...
19 August 2022
Although autonomous vehicles have introduced a promising potential for improving traffic safety and efficiency, ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles in complex road traffic environments is still a huge challenge to be tackled. To quickly quanti...
The paper evaluates the DARS Traffic Plus mobile application within a realistic driving simulator environment to assess its impact on driving safety and user experience, particularly focusing on the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)....
With the rapid expansion of highway networks, the demand for timely and reliable road information has steadily increased. However, some guide signs on newly built or extended highways in China have not been updated or adjusted in time, resulting in i...
The Taiwan Strait, to the west of Taiwan, is rich in wind energy resources and has the greatest offshore wind power potential in the world. Therefore, Taiwan has been actively expanding its offshore wind power industry in this area in recent years an...
Sustainable traffic system management under conditions of uncertainty and inappropriate road infrastructure is a responsible and complex task. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), there is a large number of level crossings which represent potentially ris...
Ensuring traffic safety within urban public transport systems is essential for achieving sustainable urban development, particularly in densely populated metropolitan areas. This study investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tech...
Road lane markings play an essential role in maintaining traffic order and improving traffic safety and efficiency. Active luminous lane markings have emerged with advances in technology recently. However, it is still not completely clear what impact...
In recent years, new architectures and technologies have been proposed for Vehicular Ad Hoc networks (VANETs). Due to the cost and complexity of deploying such networks, most of these proposals rely on simulation. However, we find that most of the ex...
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are expected to significantly improve traffic efficiency and safety. However, the overall impacts of CAVs on mixed traffic have not been clearly studied because most previous research focused on one subset of...
Most of the existing studies on the freeway hard-shoulder-running (HSR) strategy only focus on the traffic flow with human-driven vehicles (HDVs) but neglect the potential impacts of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) with various penetration rates...
The current study aimed to develop a relationship between surrogate safety indicators and human judgement of severity. It has been demonstrated that human observers frequently display excellent agreement when asked to assess traffic incidents by thei...
In order to solve the problem of urban short-term traffic congestion and temporal and spatial heterogeneity, it is important to scientifically delineate urban traffic congestion response areas to alleviate regional traffic congestion and improve road...
The Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system plays an important role in ensuring safe and efficient rail transportation operations. It is mainly responsible for the implementation and adjustment of the train operation schedule through the automatic c...
26 November 2021
To enhance the safety of pedestrians crossing the street, a series of new regulations regarding pedestrian yield has been proposed and widely implemented across cities. In this study, we first made some improvements to the social force model, in whic...
The goal of section speed control is to increase speed limit compliance in the monitored road sections, decrease speed variance and improve traffic safety. General experience with section speed control on motorways is positive, with significant impro...
In order to solve the problem of passenger risk classification, an assessment model for air passenger risk classification based on the analytic hierarchy process and improved fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is constructed. The existing index sy...
Urban transportation systems, particularly underground interchanges, present significant challenges for sustainable and resilient urban design due to their complex road geometries and dense traffic signage. These challenges are further compounded by...
This paper proposes an integrated tree model architecture and a low-cost data construction method based on an improved Stacking strategy. It systematically analyzes the importance of safety indicators for mountainous sharp bends in plateau regions an...
Human factors play a huge role in road traffic safety. Research has found that a huge proportion of traffic crashes occur due to some form of human error. Improving road user behavior has been the major strategy that has been emphasized for improving...
The safety impacts of cooperative platooning in mixed traffic consisting of human-driven, connected, and connected–automated vehicles were evaluated. The cooperative platooning, in the case of the mixed traffic control algorithm evaluated here,...
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the safety effects caused by altering the lengths of deceleration and acceleration lanes at rest areas on expressways in Korea. Although general conclusions can be found through crash-based safety anal...
To objectively evaluate the road traffic safety levels across different provinces in China, this study investigated the spatiotemporal heterogeneity characteristics of macro factors influencing road traffic accidents. Panel data from 31 provinces in...
As the market penetration rate (MPR) of autonomous vehicles increases, it is expected that the safety of mixed traffic situations will change due to interactions between vehicles. A proactive safety analysis of mixed traffic situations is needed for...
This paper evaluates experimental variables for virtual road safety audits (VRSAs) through practical experiments to promote sustainable road safety. VRSAs perform road safety audits using driving simulators (DSs), and all objects in the road environm...
With the rapid development of the shipping industry in recent years, the increasing volume of ship traffic makes marine traffic much busier and more crowded, especially in the waterway off the coast. This leads to the increment of the complexity leve...
Road safety is a key concern of transport governance. In the European Union, a Road Safety Programme was adopted in 2011, with the objective to reduce road deaths in Europe by 50% in the period from 2011 to 2020. Evidence suggests, however, that this...
Methods used to evaluate the impact of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) services on road safety are usually based on expert assessments or statistical studies. However, commonly used methods are challenging to apply in the planning process of ITS s...
The long-steep downgrade sections of expressways are characterized by a large elevation difference, poor horizontal and vertical alignment, and the easy failure of brakes on large trucks. They are sections with a high overall operation safety risk. I...
Recent research indicates that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted road traffic operation quality. From the perspective of service level, safety level, and operation orderliness, this study attempts to analyze the limited re...
The effects of traffic loads on existing bridges are quite different from those of design live loads because of the various traffic environments. However, the bridge maintenance and safety assessment of in-service bridges maintain the design load cap...
Interaction between drivers and pedestrians enables pedestrians to cross the street without conflicts. When highly automated vehicles (HAVs) become prevalent, interaction will change. Although HAVs manage to identify pedestrians, they may not be able...
Traffic safety is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by advances in data science, sensing technologies, and computational modeling. Proactive approaches are enabling the early identification of potential hazards, real-time decision-making,...
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