Transportation Safety and Pavement Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 40131
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction and infrastructure systems engineering; road design; pavement design and maiteinance; road safety; environmetal analysis
Interests: road design; maintenance and rehabilitation; road safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A decisive contribution to the sustainability of an infrastructure is provided by a systemic approach of infrastructure management and safety; through effective treatments, the occurrence of accidents in high-risk infrastructures can be reduced.
The introduction of new survey techniques able to reconstruct the whole geometric surface together with complex simulation processes allow a reliable reproduction of driving conditions, therefore allowing the evaluation of comfort, risky conditions, and hazardous maneuvers, which often lead to accidents.
The evolution of new technologies (construction and survey methodologies) is giving a remarkable contribution to the reduction of accidents. In fact, recent advances in simulation technologies in computational optimization and building technologies are leading toward an improvement in quality and in infrastructure safety levels (ITS, ADAS, etc.).
In the present Special Issue, we welcome research that enhances stakeholders’ ability to develop strategic and systemic decisions regarding the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of transport systems.
Therefore, the Special Issue is focused on the use of innovative technologies that improve the safety and sustainability of transportation infrastructures, both from users and designers.
Furthermore, new methodologies and enhanced studies concerning geometric design, surface pavement characteristics, paving materials and their mix design, and environmental and weather conditions are necessary to improve the evaluation of road functionality and safety.
Therefore, in summary, this Special Issue welcomes but is not limited to original research and reviews on the following topics:
- Safety assessment methodologies;
- Optimization models for accident analysis;
- Innovative technologies for survey and evaluation of pavement surface characteristics;
- Pavement management system;
- Performance indexed for pavement;
- Modeling deterioration of pavement;
- Environment;
- Intelligent transport systems;
- Advanced driver-assistance systems;
- Smart transportation infrastructures.
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosaria De Blasiis
Dr. Chiara Ferrante
Dr. Valerio Veraldi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transportation safety
- pavement management
- maintenance and rehabilitation
- simulation models
- survey innovative technologies
- surface characteristics
- pavement monitoring
- risk perception
- accident analysis
- human behavior
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