Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Road Safety

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the fastest growing sectors in the socioeconomic context, transportation is expected to experience an accelerated expansion in the next few decades due to the ever-increasing population, rapid motorization, and rising incomes. However, rapid growth of traffic has resulted in continuously increasing safety problems. These safety problems arise when one or more elements of the transportation system fail during the complex interaction among driver, vehicle, and environment. Making a road sustainably less hazardous requires a systems approach, understanding the system as a whole and the interaction between its elements, and identifying where there is potential for intervention. In particular, it requires the recognition that the human body is highly vulnerable to injury and that humans make mistakes. This is in line with the principles of sustainable road safety that require the environment and vehicle to be designed in a way that serious crashes would be eliminated and the severity of crashes would be mitigated. This becomes possible by utilization of new technologies so as to minimize the system’s dependence on humans.

In this Topical Collection, we aim to reveal the impacts of different technologies on generating sustainable safety. This Topical Collection will help researchers and practitioners understand the impact of new technologies on traffic safety improvement, potential technological and practical barriers, and the analysis tools and techniques required, to name a few.

In view of the established objectives of this Topical Collection, we invite scholars and practitioners to submit their original research or review articles. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS);
• Advances in driving simulator research;
• Cross-cultural differences with regard to the design, implementation, and usage of in-vehicle equipment;
• Elderly drivers and new in-vehicle equipment;
• Emerging technologies in designing safer roads;
• Intelligent transport systems and road infrastructure;
• Intelligent vehicle technologies;
• New methods in road safety data collection and analysis;
• Smart mobility and sustainability;
• Sustainable road infrastructure designs.

Prof. Dr. Ali Pirdavani
Collection Editor

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