Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review

Safe, accessible, and sustainable transportation systems should be an accepted expectation for everyone. Unfortunately, vulnerable road users (VRUs), which include cyclists, e-scooters, motorcyclists, and pedestrians, including people with disabilities, amongst others, are often involved and severely injured or killed in road traffic accidents. A wide range of factors (including infrastructural, environmental, and technical, amongst others) influence the safety of VRUs. To date, limited studies have reviewed the psycho-behavioural aspects or the methodologies adopted that can assist in understanding the safety issues affecting VRUs. This study aims to conduct a systematic review to reveal psycho-behavioural aspects that can influence the safety of VRUs and utilise this information to identify cutting-edge methodologies to assess crucial factors influencing critical behavioural determinants that can support future road safety studies. Following a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) process, many articles have been screened, selected (n=91) and reviewed. These highlight key psycho-behavioural determinants, behavioural outcomes and research methodologies as themes that need consideration. Further, amalgamating this evidence can be used to identify gaps in research and practice and, in doing so, also emphasise the necessity for concerted actions that prioritise VRUs in urban planning and policy endeavours.

Citation

Sudhakaran, G M, Booth, C A, Prabhakaran, A, Abbey, S, et al (in press) Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review, Transport

Type

Journal article

Language

en

Description

This is an accepted manuscript of an article due to be published by ICE publishing in Transport on 28/05/2025, available online: https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.24.00112 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.

ISSN

0965-092X

EISSN

1751-7710

Collections

Faculty of Science and Engineering