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Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Enhancing Safety and Reliability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 670

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Matjaž Šraml

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Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: traffic safety; sustainable mobility; microsimulation
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Dr. Chiara Gruden

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Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: traffic safety; sustainable mobility; microsimulation; vulnerable road users
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Special Issue Information

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.

Keywords

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

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Classification of Roadway Context and Target Speed for Multilane Highways in Thailand Using Fuzzy Expert System
by Chomphunut Sutheerakul, Nopadon Kronprasert, Wichuda Satiennam and Moe Sandi Zaw
Sustainability 2024, 16(9), 3865; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16093865 - 5 May 2024
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The classification of roadway contexts and speeds is a critical step in the planning, design, and operation of highway infrastructure. In developing countries, road users encounter safety and operational issues due to poorly defined roadway contexts and inappropriately determined target speeds for a [...] Read more.
The classification of roadway contexts and speeds is a critical step in the planning, design, and operation of highway infrastructure. In developing countries, road users encounter safety and operational issues due to poorly defined roadway contexts and inappropriately determined target speeds for a highway network. This study developed an expert system for classifying roadway contexts and target speeds of multilane highway segments and applied the classification process to 16,235 km of multilane highways in Thailand’s highway network. The proposed methodology used a fuzzy decision mechanism to deal with subjective and imprecise expert judgment (e.g., low, high), many variables, and a complex evaluation process. This study used the Fuzzy Delphi method to identify the possible important factors influencing contexts and speeds and the Fuzzy Inference System method to reason factors to categorize multilane highway segments in Thailand into different classes of roadway contexts (e.g., rural, low-density suburban, high-density suburban, and urban highways) and target speeds (e.g., ≤50 km/h, 50–60 km/h, 60–70 km/h, 70–80 km/h, 80–90 km/h, 90–100 km/h, and 100 km/h). The study was based on data from questionnaire surveys of experts and field investigations of 120 highway segments. The results showed that roadside environments and activities influence the roadway contexts, while the target speeds are sensitive to the roadway characteristics and contexts. These findings support the need for changes in context-adapted highway design and speed management. The proposed expert system provided high accuracy (90.8%) in classifications of both roadway contexts and target speeds. The fuzzy expert system provides a systematic and structural framework for analyzing imprecise data in highway contextual and speed classifications and improving the clarity and accuracy of the evaluation process. The implementation of the fuzzy expert system has the potential to revolutionize the highway classification decision-making problem under uncertainty. Full article
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