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Publications Schedule

Date	Action
Deadline Extended to January 8, 2023!	Full paper abstracts due
January 18, 2023	SPC sends invitations for full papers
February 17, 2023	Call for short communications, poster abstracts, and student symposium abstracts
March 1, 2023	Full papers due
Deadline Extended to April 18, 2023!	Short communications, poster abstracts, and student symposium abstracts due
Early July 2023	Final full papers and short communications due
October 3-6, 2023	Annual Scientific Conference, featuring accepted full papers, short communications, posters, and student symposium

Studies presented at AAAM’s 2023 Annual Scientific Conference will have the opportunity to be published in the 67th Annual AAAM Conference Special Issue in Accident Analysis and Prevention. Please take a moment to review AAP’s Instructions & Guidelines for Authors.

All accepted submissions (full papers and short communications) will be published. Students accepted for a full-paper or Student Symposium presentation are eligible to receive complimentary registration to the conference and a travel stipend of up to $500 USD.

Fields of Interest: Physicians, Engineers, Policymakers, Psychologists, Statisticians, Sociologists, AIS Specialists, and other researchers are invited to submit work studying the prevention of injury in mobility and transportation.

AAAM’s multidisciplinary thinking and approach is reflected in the Five Pillars of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action and the Haddon Matrix. All fields of study addressing AAAM’s mission are encouraged to submit. Submissions will be judged by the AAAM Scientific Program Committee (SPC) based on scientific merit, novelty of research findings, contribution to AAAM’s mission, and adherence to formatting requirements.

Example Areas of Study:

The Five Pillars of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety¹

Road Safety Management

Safer Roads and Mobility

Safer Vehicles

Safer Road Users

Post-Crash Response

The Haddon Matrix²

	Human	Vehicle	Social Environment	Physical Environment
Pre-Crash	Driver Distraction Fitness to drive Driving and acute/chronic medical conditions	Automated Driving Crash avoidance Human factors in design	Enforcement actions Alcohol/drug policy Risk and Behavior	Roadway Design for safety Infrastructure in developing countries Protection of vulnerable road users
Crash	Pediatric, geriatric, and adult injury biomechanics Biofidelity of anthropomorphic test devices	Crashworthiness Restraints Integrated safety Injury mitigation for vulnerable road users	Seat belt use Child restraint availability and use	Road barriers and medians in crash mitigation
Post-Crash	Treatment outcomes	Automatic Crash Notification	Costs of traffic injury Emergency response	Treatment and response in low- and middle-income countries

Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.
Williams, Allan F. (1999) The Haddon Matrix: its contribution to injury prevention and control. In McClure, Roderick (Ed.) Third National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, 9-12 May 1999, Brisbane, Queensland.