The development of different transport systems, especially land transport, has contributed to societies' mobility, accessibility, and development. Great economic and technological benefits are derived from this flow of goods and people.
However, in parallel and along with all the benefits derived from it, the most pernicious aspects appear as environmental pollution, visual and acoustic intrusion, congestion and worsening of habitability in cities, etc. Of all these problems, traffic accidents are the one that has the greatest virulence and social impact, a true pandemic that every year, nearly 1,300,000 people are killed on the roads, and 50 million are injured, according to data from the WHO (World Health Organization).
Given that numerous research studies agree that the human factor explains approximately between 70-90% of accidents, Traffic psychology is a fundamental discipline to understand and work on the behavior of road users.
Consequently, this Research Topic deals with the human factor in the field of traffic, mobility, transport, and Road Safety, and the relation to other great factors like roads, environment, signals, vehicles, and enforcement, that examine:
- Individual differences (characteristics of personality, emotional intelligence, etc)
- Psychological factors (attention, perception, cognition, beliefs, decision-making, emotions, etc)
- Psychological constructs (attitudes, values, beliefs, etc)
- Risk factors (distractions, drugs and alcohol, fatigue, stress, aggressiveness, etc)
- Risk groups (Children, pedestrians, cyclists, etc)
- Plans, measures, and countermeasures (road safety education campaigns, training, therapeutic and rehabilitation programs, law enforcement and sanctions, etc)
We are calling for systematic review articles, epidemiological, theoretical, and experimental research, naturalistic, observational, opinion, perception, evaluation, design/validation transport psychology instruments/questionnaire, best practices, Road Safety Audits, technological solutions, etc.
The development of different transport systems, especially land transport, has contributed to societies' mobility, accessibility, and development. Great economic and technological benefits are derived from this flow of goods and people.
However, in parallel and along with all the benefits derived from it, the most pernicious aspects appear as environmental pollution, visual and acoustic intrusion, congestion and worsening of habitability in cities, etc. Of all these problems, traffic accidents are the one that has the greatest virulence and social impact, a true pandemic that every year, nearly 1,300,000 people are killed on the roads, and 50 million are injured, according to data from the WHO (World Health Organization).
Given that numerous research studies agree that the human factor explains approximately between 70-90% of accidents, Traffic psychology is a fundamental discipline to understand and work on the behavior of road users.
Consequently, this Research Topic deals with the human factor in the field of traffic, mobility, transport, and Road Safety, and the relation to other great factors like roads, environment, signals, vehicles, and enforcement, that examine:
- Individual differences (characteristics of personality, emotional intelligence, etc)
- Psychological factors (attention, perception, cognition, beliefs, decision-making, emotions, etc)
- Psychological constructs (attitudes, values, beliefs, etc)
- Risk factors (distractions, drugs and alcohol, fatigue, stress, aggressiveness, etc)
- Risk groups (Children, pedestrians, cyclists, etc)
- Plans, measures, and countermeasures (road safety education campaigns, training, therapeutic and rehabilitation programs, law enforcement and sanctions, etc)
We are calling for systematic review articles, epidemiological, theoretical, and experimental research, naturalistic, observational, opinion, perception, evaluation, design/validation transport psychology instruments/questionnaire, best practices, Road Safety Audits, technological solutions, etc.