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Traffic Engineering and Rural Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 5282

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mariusz Kiec

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Department of Roads, Railways and Traffic Engineering; Cracow University of Technology, 31-155 Cracow, Poland
Interests: road design; road safety; methods of assessing traffic performance; identification of traffic processes with their modeling; microsiumulation
Dr. Attila Borsos

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Department of Transport Infrastructure and Water Resources Engineering, University of Győr, Győr, Hungary
Interests: traffic safety; surrogate measures of safety; autonomous vehicles
Dr. Marcin Budzyński

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
Interests: road infrastructure design; road safety; road asset management; public transport; work zones; road restraint systems
Dr. Francesco Galante

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Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: highway design; highway safety; ADAS; drivers’ behaviour investigations by driving simulator and instrumented vehicles experiments

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The special issue will present the state of art in the traffic engineering field on rural and suburban roads as well as the development of road surrounding. Activities in the field of road traffic engineering, including road traffic analysis and research, big data, new transport modes, as well as the practical application of traffic knowledge in planning and designing road infrastructure have an impact on the development of rural and suburban areas. On the other hand, the development of these areas influences traffic performance and road safety. The articles should describe the research and analysis of the impact of traffic on the development of the surroundings of roads with various functions in terms of traffic performance, safety, and environmental impact, as well as the impact of development factors on traffic.

Topics of interest include:

  • traffic measurements and data analysis;
  • traffic modeling, simulation models;
  • the impact of road and traffic factors on traffic performance;
  • road safety assessment for segments, intersections and interchanges;
  • human factor in traffic engineering;
  • pedestrian and bicycle traffic and infrastructure in rural and suburban areas;
  • Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic control and management on rural and suburban roads;
  • the impact of new means of transport (electric and autonomous vehicles, personal transport devices) on traffic performance, safety, and environment;
  • the impact of the road surroundings on traffic performance and safety;
  • the impact of traffic on environment, fuel consumption, and emissions and environmental protection;
  • new proactive techiniques for the safety evaluation of road element (Surrogate Safety Measures);
  • road asset management.

Dr. Mariusz Kiec
Dr. Attila Borsos
Dr. Marcin Budzyński
Dr. Francesco Galante
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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

  • traffic engineering
  • safety
  • performance
  • rural
  • suburban
  • development
  • environment
  • traffic modelling

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Pedestrian Safety at Midblock Crossings on Dual Carriageway Roads in Polish Cities
by Piotr Szagala, Andrzej Brzezinski, Mariusz Kiec, Marcin Budzynski, Joanna Wachnicka and Sylwia Pazdan
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5703; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14095703 - 09 May 2022
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Road crossings across two or more lanes in one direction are particularly dangerous due to limited sight distance and high vehicle speeds. To improve their safety, road authorities should provide safety treatments. These may include additional measures to reduce speed and narrow the [...] Read more.
Road crossings across two or more lanes in one direction are particularly dangerous due to limited sight distance and high vehicle speeds. To improve their safety, road authorities should provide safety treatments. These may include additional measures to reduce speed and narrow the road cross-section and the introduction of active pedestrian crossings. Equipped with flashing lights activated automatically when a pedestrian is detected, the crossings are painted red and have an anti-skid surface on approaches. The article presents an analysis of road user behaviour at pedestrian crossings on dual carriageways with a varying provision of road safety measures in some Polish cities. It also evaluates the effectiveness of the measures over time. The study was conducted before, immediately after and one year after the additional signage was introduced. The evaluation is based on how vehicle speeds changed before the pedestrian crossing, how pedestrians behaved versus the vehicle and their readiness to cross the street. The number of conflicts on selected crossings was also evaluated. The safety treatments under analysis were found to be less effective than the traditional pedestrian safety measures such as speed cushions or roads narrowed to one lane. This suggests that if used on dual carriageways the measures should only be temporary and should ultimately be replaced with traffic lights or a grade separated solution (a footbridge or tunnel) on exits from urban areas. No clear-cut conclusions about pedestrian safety can be drawn based on the traffic conflicts in question. The article is divided into the following sections: introduction with a review of the literature on pedestrian and driver behaviour studies at pedestrian crossings, including midblock crossings and dual carriageways; a description of the research method and test sites, the results, discussion of the results and conclusion. Full article
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Parametric and Non-Parametric Analyses for Pedestrian Crash Severity Prediction in Great Britain
by Maria Rella Riccardi, Filomena Mauriello, Sobhan Sarkar, Francesco Galante, Antonella Scarano and Alfonso Montella
Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3188; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14063188 - 08 Mar 2022
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The study aims to investigate the factors that are associated with fatal and severe vehicle–pedestrian crashes in Great Britain by developing four parametric models and five non-parametric tools to predict the crash severity. Even though the models have already been applied to model [...] Read more.
The study aims to investigate the factors that are associated with fatal and severe vehicle–pedestrian crashes in Great Britain by developing four parametric models and five non-parametric tools to predict the crash severity. Even though the models have already been applied to model the pedestrian injury severity, a comparative analysis to assess the predictive power of such modeling techniques is limited. Hence, this study contributes to the road safety literature by comparing the models by their capabilities of identifying the significant explanatory variables, and by their performances in terms of the F-measure, the G-mean, and the area under curve. The analyses were carried out using data that refer to the vehicle–pedestrian crashes that occurred in the period of 2016–2018. The parametric models confirm their advantages in offering easy-to-interpret outputs and understandable relations between the dependent and independent variables, whereas the non-parametric tools exhibited higher classification accuracies, identified more explanatory variables, and provided insights into the interdependencies among the factors. The study results suggest that the combined use of parametric and non-parametric methods may effectively overcome the limits of each group of methods, with satisfactory prediction accuracies and the interpretation of the factors contributing to fatal and serious crashes. In the conclusion, several engineering, social, and management pedestrian safety countermeasures are recommended. Full article
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