Connecting tradition with modernity: Safety literature review

Abstract

Road safety has long been considered as one of the most important issues. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate crashes with significant progress, whereas most of the work concentrates on the lifespan period of roadways and safety influencing factors. This paper undertakes a systematic literature review from the crash procedure to identify the state-of-the-art knowledge, advantages and disadvantages of crash risk, crash prediction, crash prevention and safety of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). As a result of this literature review, substantive issues in general, data source and modeling selection are discussed, and the outcome of this study aims to provide the summary of crash knowledge with potential insight into both traditional and emerging aspects, and guide the future research direction in safety.

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Keywords

Road safety / Crash risk / Crash prediction / Crash prevention / Connected and autonomous vehicles