Sustainable Transportation and Road Safety during Highway Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Processes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 23 October 2024 | Viewed by 201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: roadway transportation safety; traffic data analysis; sustainable transportation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After lengthy operations, the conditions or configurations of highways may not meet the requirements of safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation. Thus, highway maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction are implemented. During the implementation processes, lanes may be temporarily occupied due to the work zones. The statistics in several countries indicate that the crash risk and severity are usually higher on/nearby highway work zones. Uncovering the factors contributing to crash frequency/rate/risk and injury severity in work zones remains an interesting topic in the field of transportation safety research. Various transportation management and control technologies (such as signal control and speed limits) are implemented during highway maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction processes to improve their safety performance. Meanwhile, transportation management and control technologies, even the re-alignment of roadway geometry, may have significant effects on the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission of vehicles. How to measure the effects of these technologies on greenhouse gas emission, and to optimize the technologies for minimizing greenhouse gas emission, are helpful for building a sustainable transportation environment.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Crash frequency/rate analysis on work zones;
- Crash injury severity analysis on work zones;
- Real-time crash risk prediction of work zones;
- New technologies for improving safety performance in work zones;
- Vehicle greenhouse gas emission evaluation;
- Technologies for reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emission.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Qiang Zeng
Dr. Xiaofei Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable transportation
- road safety
- highway maintenance
- highway rehabilitation
- highway reconstruction
- work zone
- crash analysis
