Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Enhancing Safety and Reliability

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Enhancing Safety and Reliability”. This Special Issue addresses two key issues for today’s society: road safety and sustainable mobility. Both aspects are necessary for a road transportation system that is safe and fair for all.

Recently, the Sustainable Safety approach has been introduced, which, similarly to other road safety approaches such as Vision Zero, aims to obtain the safest road traffic system possible. This concept builds on five principles: road functionality, (bio)mechanics, road users’ psychology, governments’ and stakeholders’ responsibility, and research and knowledge. Moreover, this method underlines the need for proper infrastructure that takes into consideration the needs of more vulnerable road users, such as children, teenagers, and elderly people, and less safe traffic participants, such as (powered) two-wheelers. Additionally, it encourages the use of both pro-active and reactive approaches to have a comprehensive vision of the road safety problem, which could lead to concrete actions.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a collection of studies focusing on key issues in road safety and sustainable mobility, especially with progress related to road design, driver behavior and human factors, and road safety policies. Of particular interest are original and/or review papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Concepts and approaches for sustainability and safety in road traffic;
• Pro-active and re-active methods and models to predict road safety;
• Safe road infrastructure;
• Safe vehicles and ADAS;
• Human factors for motorized traffic;
• Perceived and real road safety;
• Issues related to fitness to drive (fatigue, distraction, etc.);
• Innovative road infrastructure to increase vulnerable road users’ safety;
• Human factors for vulnerable road users;
• Accessibility and inclusiveness of the road infrastructure;
• Road safety issues of people with reduced physical capabilities/mobility.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Matjaž Šraml
Dr. Chiara Gruden
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• road safety
• sustainable mobility
• safe roads and vehicles
• human factors in road safety
• vulnerable road users