University of Birmingham Reports Findings in Risk Management (Understanding the potential of emerging digital technologies for improving road safety): Risk Management

2022 JAN 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Risk Management is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Edgbaston, United Kingdom, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on the world’s roads and another 20-50 million are seriously injured. Morbidity or serious injury from road traffic collisions is estimated to increase to 265 million people between 2015 and 2030.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Birmingham, “Current road safety management systems rely heavily on manual data collection, visual inspection and subjective expert judgment for their effectiveness, which is costly, time-consuming, and sometimes ineffective due to under-reporting and the poor quality of the data. A range of innovations offers the potential to provide more comprehensive and effective data collection and analysis to improve road safety. However, there has been no systematic analysis of this evidence base. To this end, this paper provides a systematic review of the state of the art. It identifies that digital technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine-Learning, Image-Processing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Smartphone applications, Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Drones, Social Media, Virtual-reality, Simulator, Radar, Sensor, Big Data - provide useful means for identifying and providing information on road safety factors including road user behaviour, road characteristics and operational environment. Moreover, the results show that digital technologies such as AI, Image processing and IoT have been widely applied to enhance road safety, due to their ability to automatically capture and analyse data while preventing the possibility of human error. However, a key gap in the literature remains their effectiveness in real-world environments.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This limits their potential to be utilised by policymakers and practitioners.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Understanding the potential of emerging digital technologies for improving road safety. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021;166:106543. Accident Analysis & Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis & Prevention - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK. Additional authors for this research include Manu Sasidharan, Louise Reardon and Leila C. W. Muchanga-Hvelplund.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106543. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention is: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England.

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