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Smart, Safe and Reliable Transportation Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 5392

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hao Yu

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School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Interests: traffic risk identification and control; dynamic traffic network modeling and analysis; traffic big data and artificial intelligence

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of computerization and software-embedded intelligence, transportation systems have been increasingly intelligent. One of the main challenges in intelligent transportation systems is to address how emerging transportation data, technologies, and applications can be implemented to improve the system-wide safety and reliability. This Special Issue aims to compile recent studies and applications related to safety and reliability issues in coping with intellectualized transportation systems. Any topic related to system design, operation, improvement, and investment for smarter, safer, and more reliable transportation systems will be considered. All aspects of theory, simulation, mathematical, and real experimentation are of interest. The focus is also on the use of traffic data collected from multiple sources to better understand transportation systems, with respect to traffic safety and network reliability. The articles must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by any other journals.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Opportunities and challenges of various smart applications in transportation system safety and reliability;
  • Data-driven approaches for traffic safety evaluation and improvement;
  • Advanced communication technology solutions for risk prevention and safety insurance;
  • Innovative infrastructure design or modification adapted to smart, safe and reliable systems;
  • Coordination architecture and strategies between transportation systems and urban energy supply systems for their reliability and flexibility;
  • Emerging policy solutions to ensure the safety and security of smart transportation systems;
  • Modelling and analysis of human factors as they influence the safety and reliability of smart transportation systems;
  • Accidents investigation, analysis and prevention in intellectualized transportation systems.

Dr. Hao Yu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • design
  • operation
  • data-driven
  • policy
  • infrastructure
  • intelligence
  • communication technology
  • automation
  • system reliability
  • accident prevention

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Human Centred Design Considerations for the Development of Sustainable Public Transportation in Malaysia
by Jo Kuys, Gavin Melles, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Scott Thompson-Whiteside and Blair Kuys
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(23), 12493; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312493 - 6 Dec 2022
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The growing trend of private car ownership in Malaysia is increasing traffic congestion. As part of a solution, the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) chose to develop technologies for an electric bus system in Kuala Lumpur and initiated a project to design and engineer [...] Read more.
The growing trend of private car ownership in Malaysia is increasing traffic congestion. As part of a solution, the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) chose to develop technologies for an electric bus system in Kuala Lumpur and initiated a project to design and engineer an electric bus system with a focus on Human Centred Design (HCD) principles. In order to fulfil this a total of 28-hours of user observation was conducted in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. Alongside this field research an online questionnaire study of future users (n = 102, Age 21–35) was conducted to further substantiate findings. As a result, we address the need for HCD considerations to be included in sustainable public transport systems in Malaysia. User observation revealed six key issues associated with the daily routine of a commuter which were then used to inform the questionnaire survey. Alarmingly, the survey revealed that over 60 per cent of respondents had never used the bus system in Kuala Lumpur stating problems such as frequency, comfort, driver attitude and bus shelter access. This provided a necessary platform for improvement resulting in eight key recommendations ranked by importance with the aim to increase bus usage in Malaysia. Full article
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Assessing Road Safety Development in European Countries: A Cross-Year Comparative Analysis of a Safety Performance Index
by Qiong Bao, Zegang Zhai and Yongjun Shen
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(19), 9813; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199813 - 29 Sep 2022
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The development of a road safety performance index has been widely accepted as a supportive instrument to evaluate and compare the safety performance in different countries. However, most of the current studies concentrate on the index development for only one year. In other [...] Read more.
The development of a road safety performance index has been widely accepted as a supportive instrument to evaluate and compare the safety performance in different countries. However, most of the current studies concentrate on the index development for only one year. In other words, there is still a lack of cross-year comparison based on the constructed safety performance index, so as to assess the progress of road safety performance in different countries over time. In this study, by collecting data on four background indicators and seven safety performance indicators of 21 European countries for both 2008 and 2015, the hierarchical clustering analysis is first utilized to identify country groups based on the background indicators. Then, the principal component analysis (PCA) is applied for each group to construct a safety performance index, and a cross-year comparative analysis on country grouping, index ranking, and weight allocation is conducted. The results show that the members in the two country groups remain the same, implying that there was no dramatic change with respect to these countries’ road safety policy context in these two years. However, the gaps between these two country groups with respect to their overall socioeconomic development, as well as their road safety performance, enlarged over this period. Moreover, by comparing the indicator weights assigned for each country group in different years and examining the changes in indicator values of each country, a useful insight into the areas of underperformance is gained, which cannot be revealed in single year index evaluation. All these findings provide policy makers with valuable guidance to prioritize their actions to improve the level of road safety. Full article
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