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Important Dates
Paper submission deadline:
June 1, 2013

Special Issue Call for Papers

Pedestrian Safety
Guest Editors
Shunsuke Kamijo, kamijo@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Nobuyuki Ozaki, nobuyuki.ozaki@toshiba.co.jp

Accidents and fatalities associated with pedestrians and bicyclists had been severe
problems around the world. Today, some innovative technologies are developed to
reduce and mitigate those pedestrian and bicycle accidents employing sensors,
communication and their fusion technologies. This call for paper is intended to
collect research works of various ITS technologies/applications and policies for
pedestrian safety. Papers on field operational test as well as scientific papers are
encouraged to submit for this special issue.
Authors are invited to submit papers, which are not under review in other
conferences or journals. The suggested topics are the concept idea, state of the art,
protocol, algorithm, implementation and service model in the following, but not
limited to:

www.Springer.com/13177

I2V, P2V Cooperative Systems for Pedestrian Safety

Pedestrian Positioning by GPS, WiFi, and Multimedia methods
Pedestrian Detections by Road Side Sensors
Pedestrian Detections by On-board Sensors
Signal Controls for Pedestrian Safety
Intersection Designs for Pedestrian Safety
Human Factors for Pedestrian Accidents
Legal Issues associated with new technologies for Pedestrian Safety
Bicyclist safety is also included in the scope of the special issue

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry
contributions.

ISSN: 1348-8503(print)
1868-8659 (electronic)
Editors-in-Chief
Edward Chung, Queensland
University of Technology

http://www.springer.com/journal/13177