The fundamental aim of vehicle passive safety is to mitigate or prevent injuries in possible vehicle accidents, where understanding human impact response, injury mechanism, and injury tolerance serves as core task. For instance, vehicle safety design requires the knowledge of human injury tolerance for critical body regions, such as the head, neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and lower extremities.

Vehicular injury analysis and prevention has long been a heated topic for scientists, researchers, and engineers from biomechanics, ergonomic, and mechanical engineering. In particular, with the growing trend for the development of intelligent/unmanned vehicles, passengers within vehicle would exhibit much more varied seating statuses, leading to a deteriorated safety situation. On the other hand, injuries occurring within high-speed vehicle collision scenarios would ask for more comprehensive safety protections, where dynamic behaviors of human biostructures and injury response would be significantly different.

The purpose of this special issue is to publish high-quality research papers as well as review articles addressing recent advances in injury analysis and prevention in vehicle safety. Original, high-quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Impact biomechanics research from head to toe
• Dynamic behavior of biostructures
• Human injury tolerance
• Crash-injury field data analysis
• Vehicle occupant protection
• Vulnerable road users (VRU) safety
• Biomechanics related vehicle crashworthiness design
• Injury prevention in autonomous vehicles