International Journal of Vehicle Safety
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Jesse Ruan
- ISSN online
- 1479-3113
- ISSN print
- 1479-3105
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 0.9 (2022)

IJVS provides an authoritative source of information in the field of vehicle safety design, research and development. It serves applied scientists, engineers, policy makers and safety advocates with a platform to develop, promote and coordinate the science, technology and practice of vehicle safety. IJVS seeks to establish channels of communication between industry, academy and government in the field of vehicle safety, and also covers subjects of passive/active safety in road traffic as well as traffic-related public health issues.
Topics covered include
- Accident case studies/data analysis/reconstruction/avoidance
- Elderly driver safety, vulnerable road users' protection
- Impact biomechanics, injury mechanisms/criteria/tolerance
- Crash dummy development, human body modelling
- Occupant protection/restraint systems, child safety
- Mechatronics and technologies for smart-restraint systems
- Vehicle reliability/safety, vehicle crashworthiness/compatibility analysis
- Smart materials for crashworthiness/occupant protection
- Injury mitigation technology development
- Intelligent driving systems, driving control systems development
- Assisted driver information/communication systems
- Intelligent highway systems, satellite systems for vehicle sensing
- Wireless/mobile communications technology, telematics
- Real-time data acquisition/distributed systems, multimedia networking
- Vehicle crash rescue, extrication, post-crash aspects
Objectives
The objectives of IJVS are:
- To develop, promote and coordinate the science, technology and practice of vehicle safety
- To help engineers and applied scientists engage in vehicle safety design and research
- To allow engineers and applied scientists to contribute to the field, to disseminate technical information, and to learn from each other|s work
- To provide an international forum for information exchange in the development and application of non-deterministic methods and practices for the enhancement of vehicle safety and the mitigation of road traffic injuries
The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global environment. The goal of IJVS is to enhance vehicle safety and minimise road traffic injuries through technology innovation.
Readership
Automotive engineers, academics, researchers, managers, designers, technologists, policy makers and safety advocates, working in universities, research institutes, and industries.
Contents
IJVS publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Contributions may be by submission or invitation. Special Issues devoted to important topics in vehicle safety will occasionally be published.
Commentaries on papers and reports published in IJVS are encouraged. Authors will have the opportunity to respond to the commentary on their work before the entire treatment is published.
IJVS is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Google Scholar
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- Pascal (INIST-CNRS)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- Technology and Management [TEMA] (WTi Frankfurt)
- TRID [Transportation Research Information Services + ITRD] (Transportation Research Board)
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More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Ruan, Jesse, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China
(ijvstust.edu.cn)
Associate Editor
- Kang, Ken, Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, USA
Australia New Zealand Editor
- Fildes, Brian, Monash Univeristy, Australia
European Editor
- Willinger, Rémy, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS-UMR 7357, France
Far East Editor
- Wang, Zhengguo, The Third Military Medical University, China
Japanese Editor
- Mizuno, Koji, Nagoya University, Japan
North American Editor
- Mao, Haojie, Western University, Canada
Editorial Board Members
- Barbat, Saeed, Ford Motor Company, USA
- Bilkhu, Sukhbir, Chrysler LLC, USA
- Chou, Clifford, Wayne State University, USA
- Deb, Anindya, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Gentle, C.R., The Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Hamouda, Abdel Magid, Qatar University, Qatar
- Haut, Roger C., Michigan State University, USA
- Hynčík, Luděk, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Jiang, Chao, Hunan University, China
- Lan, Fengchong, South China University of Technology , China
- Liu, Zhixin, China Automotive Technology and Research Center, China
- Lovsund, Per, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Matsui, Yasuhiro, National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory (NTSEL), Japan
- Miki, Kazuo, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc, Japan
- Oakley, Charles, TRL Limited, UK
- Otte, Dietemar, Medical University of Hannover, Germany
- Prasad, Priya, US National Academy of Engineering, USA
- Schneide, Lawrence W., University of Michigan, USA
- Shahwan, Khaled, Michigan, USA
- Sugimoto, Tomiji, Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Japan
- Trosseille, Xavier, Laboratory of Accidentology, Biomechanics and Human Behaviour, France
- Visintainer, Randal, Ford Motor Company, USA
- Wang, J.T., General Motors Research & Development, USA
- Wang, Stewart C., University of Michigan, USA
- Wismans, Jac, SAFETEQ, Netherlands
- Yang, Jikuang, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Yang, King H., Wayne State University, USA
- Yin, Zhiyong, Third Military Medical University, China
- Youn, Younghan, Korea University of Technology and Education, South Korea
- Zhong, Zhihua, Tongji University, China
- Zhou, Qing, Tsinghua University, China
- Zhu, Xichan, Tongji University, China
- Zou, Guangyu, Henry Ford Health System, USA
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Journal news
Road traffic accidents and mobile phone addiction
20 March, 2023
Research in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety looks at the relationship between mobile phone addiction and road traffic accidents in two groups of drivers those who were involved in an accident and those who were not. The team surveyed 240 drivers about their mobile phone use, split between the two groups and found, perhaps obviously, that the drivers who revealed themselves to have an "addiction" to mobile phone use were more likely to have been injured in a road traffic accident than the ones who were not addicted. Afarin Akhavan and Adel Ashrafi of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Science and Arts University and Gholam Hossein Halvani, Moein Nemati, and Rohollah Fallah Madvari of the Department of Occupational Health Engineering at the Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd, Iran, write that road traffic accidents are listed as the leading cause of death by the World Health Organisation with some 20 to 50 million people dying each year in such accidents [...]
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