Innovations and Challenges in Urban Road Traffic

Major cities around the world face challenges that impact the quality of life for their inhabitants, including traffic congestion and road collisions. Thus, to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers, city councils and leaders worldwide are looking to make roads safer. This is certainly true in Brazil, where approximately 38,000 people die each year because of traffic crashes, with most of the victims being pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.1