Sensors and Systems for Automotive and Road Safety

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the topic of vehicle safety research, in the design, construction and equipment of vehicles to minimise the occurrence and consequences of road crashes. New developments in vehicles are intended to reduce the number of accidents caused by human error and prevent fatalities, but also to reduce fuel consumption and lower exhaust emissions. Advanced safety systems used for this purpose require sensors both inside and outside vehicles to detect and identify objects, determine their movement parameters, monitor the behaviour of drivers and passengers and predict future behaviour in order to avoid potential collisions.

Transport and road infrastructure safety is closely related to vehicle safety. Intelligent transport infrastructure systems comprise various technologies, including telecommunications, information technology, automatic systems using complex measurement systems and sophisticated analysis methods. They support the transport system, increasing its efficiency and improving the safety of road users.

This Special Issue intends to bring together original theoretical or empirical articles addressing safety issues in vehicles and intelligent transport infrastructure systems. Topics relevant to this Special Issue include: the use of different types of sensors in research to improve vehicle safety; technology, methods and sensors used in crash tests; the application of sensors to detect and identify obstacles, oncoming objects, determine their movement parameters, position and predict their future behaviour in order to avoid potential collisions; measuring methods and sensors used in vehicle traction tests and vehicle diagnostics; the use of sensors to assess the performance indicators of reciprocating internal combustion engines taking into account their harmful effects on the environment; sensors for monitoring the behaviour and psycho-physical state of drivers and passengers (e.g. visual sensors, motion sensors, breathalysers), assessment algorithms; systems and sensors for intelligent transport infrastructures to monitor road users, to perform predictive analytics and to improve traffic flow and road safety; and cargo securing systems in road transport.

Prof. Dr. Marek Jaśkiewicz
Prof. Dr. Milos Poliak
Prof. Dr. Ondrej Stopka
Guest Editors

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