Accessibility and safety in transport, focused on developing countries

This issue aims to explore and address the multidimensional challenges of transport accessibility and safety, especially in developing countries. It seeks to compile innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches that evaluate risk, infrastructure, user behaviour, and technology. By bringing together theoretical and practical contributions, the issue will propose solutions for sustainable and inclusive transport systems in diverse territories.

To achieve sustainable cities, one of the requirements is to improve accessibility and safety in transport. To study transport accessibility and safety, different methodologies can be used. These methodologies seek to study transport accessibility and safety in time and space, considering the type of user (e.g. driver, passenger), the type of vehicle (e.g., train, car, bicycle), the type of infrastructure (e.g., railway track, street, sidewalk, cycle lane), and the environment (e.g., lighting, public spaces, urban furniture, landscape).

This implies combining sustainability and interdisciplinary approaches, such as surveys, documentary analysis, field observation, experimentation, and simulation, case studies and models/evaluations under limited data availability. In this special issue, we understand sustainability as the combination of social, environmental and economic dimensions that require territorial governance that allows a good articulation between them. This special issue also values studies that explore these issues at different scales, from the local to the regional, both in urban and rural areas focused on micro-mobility.

This special issue hopes to contribute from the theoretical to the practical to generate proposals and strategies to promote greater sustainable development from the problems related to transport accessibility and safety.

List of topic areas

1. Types of accidents, risks, frequency, and places of occurrence
2. Access, micro-mobility and accessibility
3. Age, personality, physical and psychological condition of users
4. Type of vehicles, capacity, brake performance and manoeuver
5. Street design, type of pavement, physical dimensions
6. Weather, lighting, and urban or rural environmental conditions
7. Crowd management and public space
8. Spatial analysis of mobility and big data
9. Use of innovative technologies and methodologies

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