International Journal of Vehicle Safety

Editor in Chief
Prof. Jesse Ruan
ISSN online
1479-3113
ISSN print
1479-3105
4 issues per year
Subscription price
Scopus
CiteScore
0.5 (2024)

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Navigating better pedestrian safety

A study in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety has looked at driver behaviour during turning manoeuvres at road junctions (intersections). The work raises concerns about pedestrian safety, particularly when several vehicles are involved in making the same turn. Shoko Oikawa, Yuta Kusakari, and Naoyuki Kubota of Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, and Yasuhiro Matsui of the National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory, in Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, used a driving simulator to replicate five different traffic scenarios. They hoped to better understand how various factors, such as the presence of pedestrians and other vehicles, influence how drivers approach and navigate junctions [...]

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