Urban space’s physical and environmental characteristics impact urban public safety. Specifically, many areas in the older urban core are morphologically unsafe. The historic city’s resilience to natural disasters and emergency phenomena...
Creating a safe and resilient urban environment is a crucial part of sustainable urban development. Therefore, it is imperative that a city’s safety resilience is evaluated from various perspectives. To evaluate and improve the resilience of ur...
Improving the urban livability status has become the core goal of urban development, and reasonable assessment of the urban livability status and impact is crucial. By combining an objective environment with residents’ subjective cognition, an artifi...
Improving road safety is a major challenge for urban administrations due to the high frequency of accidents and their associated social costs. This study presents a methodology that combines historical accident data analysis with a proactive risk ass...
In the current era of urban development, people are already using electric vehicles more and more often for transport purposes, which reduces negative impacts on the environment. However, there are still vehicles in towns and cities that run on ordin...
22 November 2020
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak caused people to pay significant attention to urban public safety issues. The city’s public safety is an important part of the high-quality development and the construction of a liveable city. T...
Urban public space is essential in improving population carrying capacity and economic efficiency. However, the characteristics of urban public space, such as complex structure, relatively close and large population mobility, make it prone to fire, s...
The need for improving urban road safety, livability, and sustainability is evident. Quantitative estimates and qualitative methods/strategies can be used by road safety practitioners to design safety interventions. This study proposes a flexible int...
Urban-safety perception is crucial for urban planning and pedestrian street preference studies. With the development of deep learning and the availability of high-resolution street images, the use of artificial intelligence methods to deal with urban...
Attention to the most vulnerable road users has grown rapidly over recent decades. The experience gained reveals an important number of fatalities due to accidents in urban branch roads. In this study, an analytical methodology for the calculation of...
With the expansion of urbanization, the interaction between different hazards has become increasing evident. In order to promote sustainable development of urban areas, it is particularly important to systematically analyze and evaluate urban safety...
The expansion of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has led to diverse aircraft designs, with piloted systems expected to evolve into remotely piloted and automated operations. Future advancements in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) will further impro...
Against the backdrop of accelerating population aging and scarce elderly care resources and facilities in China, the issue of the sense of safety among the elderly has received widespread attention. This article is based on data from the China Labor...
The new situations, problems, and challenges facing urban fire safety work are gradually increasing in China, so innovating urban fire safety governance modes is an urgent task. In the fire management practice of the Chinese government, the establish...
The safety risk analysis of urban elevated bridge construction is an important management method to reduce the loss of safety accidents, and it has significant scientific research value and engineering application value. Therefore, this study propose...
The share of road vehicles in urban transport systems is a challenge for modern and dynamically developing urban areas in accordance with the concept of sustainable and Smart Cities. Increasingly, there is a need to promote and adapt urban space to t...
24 January 2022
The service quality and safety perception of urban forests are important factors that influence tourists to choose them as recreation destinations. This study aims to propose a theoretical model of multivariate relationships to explore the relationsh...
The present study aims to investigate the benefits of eco-driving in urban areas and on highways through an experiment conducted in a driving simulator. Within a group of 39 participants aged 18–30, multiple driving scenarios were conducted, bo...
As urbanization and population growth continue to accelerate in China, maintaining public safety and crisis management has become increasingly complex. To address this issue, this research article proposes a new model for optimizing urban public safe...
Abnormal phenomena on urban roads, including uneven surfaces, garbage, traffic congestion, floods, fallen trees, fires, and traffic accidents, present significant risks to public safety and infrastructure, necessitating real-time monitoring and early...
Micromobility responds to urban transport challenges by reducing emissions, mitigating traffic, and improving accessibility. Nevertheless, the safety of micromobility users, particularly cyclists, remains a concern in urban environments. This study a...
Despite the significant progress in the last few decades, road safety improvement still constitutes an imperative global need. Especially in urban areas, the improvement of road safety is an even more complicated and multi-factor problem. Every minut...
Overall visibility plays a key role in the safety of pedestrians. Despite its importance, verifying the right provisioning of sufficient available sight distances among pedestrians and vulnerable road users (VRUs) is not a prevalent practice. On top...
While urban greening is an effective adaptation strategy for building resilient cities, socioeconomic factors and individual perceptions of urban parks play a significant role in enhancing their safety and inclusiveness. Crime Prevention through Envi...
A well-designed nighttime lighting environment not only enhances pedestrian comfort and urban vitality but also serves as a crucial factor in creating safe and livable urban spaces. However, existing studies on pedestrian safety at night remain relat...
This paper identifies and analyzes variables that influence pedestrian safety based on the definition of models of pedestrian crash frequency for urban areas in Portugal. It considers three groups of explanatory variables, namely: (i) built environme...
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) issues in the urban rail transport industry need to be given full attention due to the factors of the instability of declining occupational accident rate, increasing number of passengers each year, and the pressur...
With the frequent occurrence of various disasters and accidents, realizing the periodic assessment and visualization of urban safety and security considering multiple hazards is of great significance for safe urban development. In this paper, a perio...
Safety and crime prevention are significant concerns in both urban and rural areas. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) guidelines provide an architectural strategy to deter criminal activities by implementing strategic design plans...
This paper proposes an automated framework that utilizes Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point cloud data to map and detect road obstacles that impact drivers’ field of view at urban intersections. The framework facilitates the simulation of a dr...
The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) initial version provides several safety performances functions (SPFs) that can be used to predict collisions on a roadway network. The calibration of the HSM SPFs for Fatal and Injury (FI), Property Damage Only (PDO),...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is expected to provide environmental benefits while enhancing transportation for citizens and businesses, particularly in commercial and emergency medical applications. The rapid development of electric vertical take-off and...
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...
Reducing vehicle lane widths has been proposed as an effective strategy to decrease vehicle speeds and enhance road safety. However, the safety benefits of narrower travel lanes remain a topic of debate due to mixed findings in the literature. This s...
Increasing rainfall intensity and altered temporal patterns due to climate change pose significant threats to pedestrian safety in highly urbanized areas. Reliable pedestrian safety assessment is therefore essential for evacuation planning and flood...
This study addresses the key scientific problem of urban safety in complex, hazard-inducing geological environments by focusing on representative towns in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. Through the integrated use of field investigations, numerical...
Urban intersections are critical for pedestrian safety, as they usually account for high rates of traffic-related injury and fatalities. This study assesses smart crosswalks as an alternative approach to improve road safety that is inherently aligned...
The causes of traffic crashes are complex and uncertain, among which the risky driving behaviors of drivers and the types of road sections in high-crash areas are all critical influencing factors. We used ArcGIS software to draw traffic heat maps und...
With China’s rapidly aging population, enhancing the safety and age-friendliness of existing residential communities has become a pressing need in the context of urban renewal. Based on empirical analysis of 146 questionnaires collected from ag...
This study examined the impact of density, diversity, design, distance to transit, and destination accessibility, five measures, known as the 5Ds, that characterize the built environment, on pedestrian–vehicle crashes in Seoul, Korea. Using spa...
Autonomous earthwork machinery is gaining traction as a means to boost productivity and safety on space-constrained urban sites, yet the fast-growing literature has not been fully integrated. To clarify current knowledge, we systematically searched S...
In order to study the impact of food safety concerns and government regulation on Chinese urban residents’ organic food consumption willingness and behavior, an “online + offline” survey of 799 urban residents in Beijing has been co...
In recent years, numerous turbo-roundabouts have been built in many European countries. To date, there are no turbo-roundabouts in Italy and even the regulations do not provide for their implementation. Turbo-roundabouts are considered the ideal alte...
The introduction of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) on freeways raises significant challenges, particularly in interactions with human-driven vehicles, impacting traffic flow and safety. This study employs traffic microsimulation and surrogate sa...
As aging urban expressways become more pronounced, maintenance and construction work on these roadways is increasingly necessary. Some lanes may need to be closed during maintenance and construction, decreasing driving safety and comfort in the work...
Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into urban airspace requires a risk-aware approach to strategic flight planning and trajectory optimization, particularly for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations. Existing regulatory frameworks impose st...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging industry marked by technological advancements, new operational contexts, and regulatory frameworks. This article examines how to improve safety management in UAM operations by adopting a just culture approach f...
All over the world, the problem of ensuring the safety of pedestrians, who are the most vulnerable road users, is becoming more acute due to urbanization and the growth of micromobility. In 2013, according to WHO data, more than 270 thousand pedestri...
As the value and importance of urban air mobility (UAM) are being recognized, there is growing attention towards UAM. To ensure that urban air traffic can serve passengers to the greatest extent while ensuring safety and generating revenue, there is...
China’s urban rail transit (URT) construction is coming into the stage of rapid development under the guidance of national policies. However, the URT construction projects belong to high-risk projects and construction safety accidents occur frequentl...
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