Editorial
Safety and mobility of vulnerable road users: Pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists

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Abstract

Traffic safety has improved greatly over the past few decades, but the progress in the safe mobility of vulnerable road users (VRUs) – especially motorcycle riders – has not been as consistent. The changing trends towards healthier and eco-friendlier lifestyle, coupled with the rising costs of fuel have increased the exposure and injury risk of pedestrians, motorcyclists, and bicyclists, especially in urban areas. To address the safe mobility issues of VRUs, Israel's National Road Safety Authority organized an international conference on the topic. This special issue contains the papers of the three plenary talks related to the safe mobility of each of the VRUs, and 18 more papers of the over 100 papers presented at the conference that were accepted for publication in AAP following the Journal's review process.

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Prologue to special issue

The recent decades have witnessed remarkable improvements in traffic safety. By any measure – absolute or exposure based – fatalities and fatal crashes have decreased in nearly all countries (Shinar, 2007, OECD, 2009). Historically most of interventions have focused on the safety of vehicle occupants (World Bank, 2009). Yet the consistent and significant improvements in the safety of car occupants that have been achieved in most countries over the past decades have not necessarily been

Acknowledgments

The process of selecting 22 papers from the over 100 papers presented at the conference involved many experts who reviewed, and often greatly assisted the authors in improving their papers. I therefore thankfully acknowledge these colleagues who are listed in alphabetical order by first name. They are: Alison Smiley, Allan Williams, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Tarko, Aslak Fyhri, Charlie Zegeer, Darren Walton, David Crundall, Dietmar Otte, Donlad Fisher, Feng Guo, Fred Wegman, Fridulv Sagberg,

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    (2007)
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