Despite the efforts of practitioners to keep up with rapidly developing technologies in urban and extra-urban road transportation systems, the lack of communication and incompatibility between safety databases and other databases and the regional differences in traffic behavior of road users cause traffic safety concerns to continue even in industrialized countries. For this reason, vulnerable road users and car accidents continue to increase.
Most notably, working solely using accident data restricts outcomes owing to data quality and availability issues. Due to this issue, trustworthy analytical approaches employing non-accident traffic data and other road data have been highlighted in road traffic safety analyses in recent years. Road safety may be measured without the occurrence of accidents, using surrogate data such as traffic indications, road geometry and speed. Therefore, a variety of approaches like "Sustainable Safety" to support and increase traffic safety can yield better results and develop theories, analytical techniques, and assessment methodologies to improve road safety understanding. These theories, techniques, and methods need to be evaluated together with their behaviour during the accident-free period for all road users to improve road safety.
Due to recent advances in detection and statistical approaches, traffic safety prediction and modelling are possible. For the research to be sustainable, they need infrastructures like Geographical Information Systems that future generations may utilise to understand traffic safety in transportation systems. All these effective criteria need detailed investigation. Thus, traffic safety evaluation in transportation systems should incorporate road user behaviours as well as accidents and significant conflicts, and road and junction layout impact road user behaviour. This Research Topic welcomes research on how to model and evaluate traffic safety measures compare driving support systems and road infrastructure and focus on vulnerable road users. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Driving behaviour, road or junction design.
● New insights from statistical or mathematical analysis to improve traffic safety or traffic flow.
● Examples of comprehensive traffic safety solutions employing statistical models, expert systems like Artificial Intelligence, and database analysis tools (geographic information systems).
● Usage of Video, social media, GPS etc. for road urban and suburban transport safety assessments
● All driver or pedestrian motion simulation applications and security control and analysis
● Security-oriented traffic flow control
● Pedestrian movement in urban transportation systems
● Impaired pedestrians and bicycle usage
● Pedestrian-car-bike path interactions
● Road geometric designs safety interaction
● Safety enhancement techniques
Keywords:
Traffic, Safety, Vulnerable Road Users, Road Geometries
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Despite the efforts of practitioners to keep up with rapidly developing technologies in urban and extra-urban road transportation systems, the lack of communication and incompatibility between safety databases and other databases and the regional differences in traffic behavior of road users cause traffic safety concerns to continue even in industrialized countries. For this reason, vulnerable road users and car accidents continue to increase.
Most notably, working solely using accident data restricts outcomes owing to data quality and availability issues. Due to this issue, trustworthy analytical approaches employing non-accident traffic data and other road data have been highlighted in road traffic safety analyses in recent years. Road safety may be measured without the occurrence of accidents, using surrogate data such as traffic indications, road geometry and speed. Therefore, a variety of approaches like "Sustainable Safety" to support and increase traffic safety can yield better results and develop theories, analytical techniques, and assessment methodologies to improve road safety understanding. These theories, techniques, and methods need to be evaluated together with their behaviour during the accident-free period for all road users to improve road safety.
Due to recent advances in detection and statistical approaches, traffic safety prediction and modelling are possible. For the research to be sustainable, they need infrastructures like Geographical Information Systems that future generations may utilise to understand traffic safety in transportation systems. All these effective criteria need detailed investigation. Thus, traffic safety evaluation in transportation systems should incorporate road user behaviours as well as accidents and significant conflicts, and road and junction layout impact road user behaviour. This Research Topic welcomes research on how to model and evaluate traffic safety measures compare driving support systems and road infrastructure and focus on vulnerable road users. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Driving behaviour, road or junction design.
● New insights from statistical or mathematical analysis to improve traffic safety or traffic flow.
● Examples of comprehensive traffic safety solutions employing statistical models, expert systems like Artificial Intelligence, and database analysis tools (geographic information systems).
● Usage of Video, social media, GPS etc. for road urban and suburban transport safety assessments
● All driver or pedestrian motion simulation applications and security control and analysis
● Security-oriented traffic flow control
● Pedestrian movement in urban transportation systems
● Impaired pedestrians and bicycle usage
● Pedestrian-car-bike path interactions
● Road geometric designs safety interaction
● Safety enhancement techniques
Keywords:
Traffic, Safety, Vulnerable Road Users, Road Geometries
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.